Çatalhöyük presents new traces from centuries ago

Çatalhöyük, one of the first urbanization models in Anatolia in Konya's Çumra district and Turkey's one of ancient sites in the UNESCO World Heritage List, continues to give new clues about the way of life of people 9,000 years ago.

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Speaking to the state-run Anadolu Agency, Anadolu University's faculty member Ali Umut Türkcan, who is also the head of Çatalhöyük Neolithic City excavations, said that the concept of "street," one of the questions waiting to be answered in Çatalhöyük, started to come to light with the second neighborhood that was found recently.

Türkcan stated that in the light of the findings, they believe that there were many neighborhoods in the city. "We saw very clearly that a second neighborhood showed itself. We have an extraordinary house here, which attracted our attention especially with its wall paints, its size, much better quality floors and burials coming out from under the floors," he added.

Türkcan pointed out that there are some differences in the house in the second neighborhood compared to the previous houses, adding, "We have two multiple burials in this neighborhood. In fact, in this burial, we noticed that the claw of a predatory animal, which may belong to a bear, was placed on the grave of this individual. We will work on this burial in the future. The world's oldest wooden pieces were found at Çatalhöyük. The wooden piece found in the same house is a large example, but we think that it is a part of the stairs that we knew before but could not found. This is the first time we've seen something like this in years."

Noting that they also found workshops in Çatalhöyük, Türkcan said: "A newly found workshop, especially related to paint, caught our attention. It is almost like a warehouse area....