WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike a stone picked up off the ground, obsidian glass comes from a volcano. It provided the small agricultural town of Çatalhöyük with a technological resource that helped humans to establish trade as far west as the Levant and south along the Tigris River and Euphrates River to the Persian Gulf.

Detailed explanation-2: -The site was first excavated by James Mellaart in 1958. He later led a team which further excavated there for four seasons between 1961 and 1965. These excavations revealed this section of Anatolia as a centre of advanced culture in the Neolithic period.

Detailed explanation-3: -An assortment of the artefacts found at Çatalhöyük including obsidian, bone tools and clay figurines. People crafted obsidian and bone tools as well as ceramic materials. The obsidian and bone were not only used for subsistence but also to create interesting objects such as clay figurines and beads.

Detailed explanation-4: -Each central room had an oven below the stairs where people carried out domestic tasks such as cooking. Raised platforms within the rooms were used for sleeping and other domestic activities. Beneath these platforms inhabitants buried their dead.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was built in what is now Turkey about 6, 500 BC not long after farming began. Catal Huyuk probably had a population of about 6, 000. In Catal Huyuk, the houses were made of mud brick.