12. ID Catal Huyuk
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Introduction and Location
Catal Huyuk is a Neolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia in modern day Turkey. It existed around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The proto-city had as many as 10,000 inhabitants, the largest at the time. Even more remarkable is that most of people remained hunter gatherers. Archaeologists believe that the settlement covered as much as 50 football fields!
Name
Çatalhöyükmeans forked mound and refers to the sites East and West mounds formed as centuries as inhabitants tore down old structures and made new ones. [3]
Importance
First excavated by James Meellaart in four excavation seasons between 1961 and 1965. It rapidly grew famous for its preserved state, walls, and wall paintings. They also had farming and domesticated animals. 
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Housing and Tools
They could craft clay pottery and obsidian, flint, and clay tools. Perhaps one of its most peculiar featureswas that houses had no doors. Instead, dwellers utilized ladders to enter through the roof, and the dead were buried under the floors of their platforms. Houses were jammed together for security.
References
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