WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Catal Huyuk is an ancient human settlement located in modern day Turkey. It dates back to the Neolithic era, or the New Stone Age. Catal Huyuk is noteworthy because it is one of the first human proto-cities to have been built.

Detailed explanation-2: -Çatalhöyük (Turkish pronunciation: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal “fork” + höyük “tumulus") is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC.

Detailed explanation-3: -Today we know that Çatalhöyük was not the earliest or the largest farming community in Anatolia and the Levant; however, it was a major participant in the cultural and economic changes that swept across the Near East in the Neolithic Period.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the time Catalhoyuk was first settled-about 9, 500 years ago, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating at the site-the Neolithic epoch was well under way. The residents of this huge village cultivated wheat and barley, as well as lentils, peas, bitter vetch and other legumes. They herded sheep and goats.