A section of an earlier dig

What can this picture tell us about their

government and population?

Station #1- City Layout

An artists reconstruction of the site.

Station #2- Tools

Obsidian(Volcanic Rock)- very sharp flints
How are these tools different from earlier
tools? What might they have been used for?

Bones used for tools

What might these tools be used for?

Station #3- The Home

What does this house tell us about their
lifestyle (nomadic or sedentary)?

Inside the experimental house

What do you think this is?
What does that tell us about their lifestyle?

Food preparation area

What types of food do you think
they prepared with these tools?

Storage bins in the experimental house.

What does this tell us about their food
resources compared to hunter gatherers?

A wall mural in the experimental house

What does this wall mural reveal about
the interests people of Catal Huyuk?

Station #4- Art

A wall mural found here

What is different about this cave painting
compared to earlier ones we viewed?

A mural showing 2 animals

Station #5- Burial

The height of the walls is due to their destruction
when a head of the household died. People
destroyed the old home and moved when a
significant man or woman died . They buried their
dead in the floor of their homes. The bodies are in
a fetal position. Some key people s heads were
kept in the home to serve in rituals. Some skulls
were plastered and painted with red ochre.

What do these burial practices

reveal about belief? Why might this
have happened now compared to
during paleolithic times?

A skeleton found in a house.

Another burial in the floor

An artists view of the floor burial

at Catal Huyuk. The red comes
from red ochre applied after
death.
An infant burial.
The baby is
wearing 2
turquoise bead
bracelets , one on
each wrist.

Station #6- Everyday Items

The following slides show you everyday

objects found at Catal Huyuk.
How do these objects help us to better
understand what life was like for
Neolithic people?
Do some objects look familiar ?

A highly polished obsidian mirror

Catal Beads

An auroch head mounted on the wall.

This is a replica.

A bone & pottery hook

and eye.

2 small clay figurines.

A pottery bowl with a

tripod stand.

This female figurine was what Mellaart

considered a goddess .