Panchronia

Çatalhöyük

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c. 7400 BC–6000 BC · Anatolia, Turkey · Middle East · Culture

A town with no streets: people entered through the roof

Çatalhöyük
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One of the largest Neolithic settlements: up to several thousand people in mud-brick houses packed wall to wall. There were no streets; people walked across the roofs and climbed down ladders inside. The walls bore paintings, and ancestors were buried under the floors.