Çatalhöyük was a large Neolithic settlement located in southern Anatolia from 7500 BC to 5700 BC. It was composed entirely of domestic buildings packed closely together without streets. The inhabitants, estimated at up to 10,000 people, buried their dead within the settlement and may have exposed bodies before burial. Distinctive clay figurines of a female deity emphasized fertility and were found in what were likely religious sites. Extensive archaeological excavations beginning in 1993 have provided significant insights into the culture and daily life of the Neolithic people who lived there.

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Çatalhöyük
Nacho , Alberto, Irene Ruiz and María Urbina

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INDEX:
• Introduction
• Culture
• Buildings
• Religion
• Archaeology

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INTRODUCTION:
 Çatalhöyük was a very large
Neolithic and Chalcolithic
settlement in southern Anatolia,
which existed from approximately
7500 BC to 5700 BC, and
flourished around 7000BC.
 It is the largest and best-preserved
Neolithic site found to date.

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 Çatalhöyük was composed
entirely of domestic buildings.
 The population of the Çatalhöyük
has been estimated to be, at
maximum, 10,000 people.
 The inhabitants lived in brick
houses that were sticked together
with an agglutinative manner (like
cement).
CULTURE:

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CULTURE:
 The people of Çatalhöyük buried their
dead within the village.
 . Disarticulated bones in some graves
suggest that bodies may have been
exposed in the open air for a time before
the bones were gathered and buried.
 These heads may have been used in
rituals, as some were found in other
areas of the community.

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BUILDINGS
 Residential buldings that are rectangular
made of adobe like townhouses whitout
streets.
 Becouse of the position of the houses it
form a wall that can protect the villagers.
 The inside of the house are plastered and
they had very clean rooms.

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RELIGION
 One distinctive characteristics of the
religion of these place are the feminine
statuettes that represented a god called
``Mother good ´´.
 This feminine goods were more common
than the masculine one so, there were
more feminine. They were founded in
places that were supposed to be chapels.

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RELIGION
 Mother good was a good that was
represented in a statuette that was made
of clay and that measure only twenty
centimeters long. It is fat and she is
undress.
 It is thought that it is a symbol of fertility
because the exaggerations of the
members of her body. It is also thought
that is in a throne and that is in the
process of giving birth.

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RELIGION
 It was discovered by an archeologist
called James Mellaart in 1961.When it
was discovered one of the hands and
one of the heads of the leopard wasn´t
there but with the past of the time they
had been repaired.
 Now it resides in the museum of the
civilizations of Anatolia in Ankara.

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ARCHAEOLOGY
 After this scandal, the site lay idle until
1993, when investigations began
under the leadership of Ian Hodder
then at the University of Cambridge
 These investigations are among the
most ambitious excavation projects
currently in progress according to,
among others, Colin Renfrew

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ARCHAEOLOGY
 In addition to extensive use of
archaeolical science , psychological
and artistic interpretations of the
symbolims of the wall paintings have
been employed. Hodder, a former
student of Mellaart, chose the site as
the first "real world" test of his then-
controversial theory of post-
proccessual archaeology.

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