Webquest – Excavating Çatalhüyük

Students:
Please go to the following Website: http://www.smm.org/catal/

In order to complete this Webquest, you will need to complete the questions. The answers
to the questions can be found on the provided website. It may take you some digging to
locate the answers.

Instructions:

• Complete each question on loose leaf.

• You do not need to answer the questions chronologically, but you must hand the
questions in chronologically.
• Please provide an example with each definition.
• Please write in full sentences.

Please Explore:

1. What are they excavating at Çatalhöyük? (/2)

2. What does Çatalhöyük mean? (/2)
3. Where is Çatalhöyük? (/2)
4. Are the excavations going on now? (/2)
5. Can I visit the site? (/2)
6. Who is working on Çatalhöyük? (/2)
7. Why are they studying Çatalhöyük? (/2)
8. How old is the ancient city? (/2)
9. What is archaebotany? (/1)
10. What is Anatolia? (/1)
11. What is dendrochronology? (/1)
12. What is ethnoarchaeology? (/1)
13. Why would an archeologist use floatation? (/1)
14. What did the Catalhuyuk use obsidian for? (/1)
15. Why do archeologists divide an excavation site into units? (/1)
16. List 3 important events that occurred before Catalhoyuk. (/6)
17. List 3 foods that people in Catalhoyuk cook? (/6)
18. Describe any four features of a Catalhuyuk house. (/12)
19. Describe the features of Glacial Lake Komya and the Carsban River. (/6)
20. There are 8 artifact categories discovered at Catalhuyuk. Please describe 4 in
detail. (/8)
21. Describe in a short paragraph one of the six mysteries found on the website. (/9)

Total = /70