çatalhöyük turkey archaeologist shahina farid can barely contain her excitement.
Houses at зatalhфyбk entered through holes in roof.
But how could the rudimentary agriculture of 9000 years ago have drawn 10 000 people to settle in çatalhöyük.
It was quite large 32 acres and so densely packed with houses that people had to enter their homes through holes in the roof.
The site of çatalhöyük was arranged as a conglomeration of densely packed buildings and is estimated to have been occupied by between 3500 and 8000 people cessford 2005 adjacent structures shared walls and there were no windows or doors for entrance.
The oven and hearth were positioned below the entrance which also.
çatalhöyük has given us some of the most famous mother goddess statuettes in archeology what is potentially the first map the world s oldest ceramic shaker and the world s oldest wall murals.
From turkish çatal fork höyük tumulus was a very large neolithic and chalcolithic proto city settlement in southern anatolia which existed from approximately 7100 bc to 5700 bc and flourished around 7000 bc.
The neolithic settlement of çatalhöyük in southern turkey has fascinated the world since it was first discovered.
Rather than streets people reached their homes by way of the roof tops and entered through holes in the roof via ladders.
Also çatal höyük and çatal hüyük.
Streets one supposes had not been invented yet.
In july 2012 it was inscribed as a unesco world heritage site.
They climbed down a ladder to the main room.
Built back to back people entered their homes through an opening in the roof.