Çatalhöyük
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Çatalhöyük is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from around 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. Çatalhöyük overl
Çatalhöyük in 2019
On-site restoration of a typical interior
The earliest excavations of the site
Deep trenches in the site
James Mellaart
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James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspecte
Çatalhöyük
…of 12 levels, numbered 1–12. The current excavator replaced this with a different alphabetic schema involving levels A-Z. The site was discovered by James Mellaart in 1958 during a regional survey of the Konya Plain. He led a team which excavated there for four seasons between 1961 and 1965. These excavations…
James Mellaart excavating a mural in Çatalhöyük