Visual Timeline: Catalhoyuk

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9000 BCE: Tribal groups of hunter-gatherers in Mesopotamia begin to domesticate plants and animals.
 
 
7400 BCE: First groups of settlers in Ҫatalhöyük.
 
 
7100 BCE: First mudbrick houses appear in Ҫatalhöyük and Jericho.
 
 
6500 BCE: Dense housing at Ҫatalhöyük. Room-flats completely made of mudbricks with painted and decorated walls. Systematic methods of cultivation and animal husbandry. The first dairy products.
 
 
6000 BCE: Demographic concentration on the west mound of Ҫatalhöyük. Desertion of the east mount to be used exclusively as a necropolis. Earliest pieces of painted pottery.
 
5900 BCE: Rare obsidian tools and early signs of metallurgy mark out the beginnings of Chalcolithic era at Ҫatalhöyük.
 
 
5600 BCE: Abandonment of Ҫatalhöyük.
 
1958 CE: James Mellaart discovers the Neolitic site of Ҫatalhöyük in the Konya Plain, central Turkey.
 
1961 CE - 1965 CE: Mellaart leads four seasons of excavations at Ҫatalhöyük.
 
1993 CE: Ian Hodder resumes Ҫatalhöyük excavations.
 
2012 CE: Ҫatalhöyük is designated a Unesco World Heritage Site.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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