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DigsSite Name: Çatalhöyük Alternative Name: Çatal Höyük, Çatal Hüyük, Catalhoyuk, Catal HoyukCountry: Turkey
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Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Konya
Latitude: 37.666500N Longitude: 32.828200E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Çatalhöyük is located overlooking wheatfields in the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya, Turkey, approximately eighty-five miles from the twin-coned volcano of Hasan Dağ. The eastern settlement forms a mound which would have risen about 20 metres above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation.
There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age. A channel of the Çarsamba river once flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on alluvial clay which may have been favourable for early agriculture.
More at the Çatalhöyük Excavation Website.
Note: Excavations at Çatalhöyük have unearthed a well-preserved 'unique' female figurine from the Neolithic era, see the latest comments on our page
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