Catalhoyuk Timeline

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c. 9000 BCE
Tribal groups of hunter-gatherers in Mesopotamia begin to domesticate plants and animals.
c. 7400 BCE
First groups of settlers in Ҫatalhöyük.
c. 7100 BCE
First mudbrick houses appear in Ҫatalhöyük and Jericho.
c. 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.
c. 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.
c. 5900 BCE
Rare obsidian tools and early signs of metallurgy mark out the beginnings of Chalcolithic era at Ҫatalhöyük.
c. 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.