Çatalhüyük Flourishes as Center of Anatolian Culture
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Cities, Urbanization, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Turkey, Asia Minor, Asia
- Date: c. 7000-c. 4900
Article abstract: The level of development at Çatalhüyük, the largest and most advanced Neolithic city yet found, indicates that the birth of civilization was not limited to the Fertile Crescent.
Summary of Event
The importance of the Anatolian Neolithic world is still to be determined. Archaeologists have unearthed small Neolithic settlements dating from around 7000-6000 b.c.e. at Mersin and Tarses along the coast of eastern Cilicia and made other finds in southwestern Anatolia at Suberde and Halicar. Each of these settlements was small, ten houses...
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