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Çatalhöyük

c. 7400-6200 BCE · Türkiye

A large, roof-accessed settlement reveals household production, farming and repeated symbolic practices.

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AI-generated evidence-guided visualization related to Çatalhöyük, c. 7400-6200 BCE. — AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

How the setting appeared

Rectangular mudbrick houses touched wall to wall without streets; people moved across roofs and descended ladders into plastered interiors.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUKCIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Households cooked, stored food, made tools and buried selected dead beneath platforms.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUKCIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Farming, herding, obsidian exchange, basketry, plastering and craft production took place at household scale.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUKCIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

Wall paintings, installations and burials made houses places of memory and ritual, not simply residences.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUKCIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

World-atlas stage: Farmers and villages
Region: West Asia · Türkiye
Languages and scripts: Not named in this record
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: The East Mound developed as a dense agglomerated settlement c. 7400-6200 BCE.; Residents practiced farming, herding, craft production, and burial beneath house floors c. 7400-6200 BCE.
Evidence confidence (generic fallback): No record-specific confidence statement is registered. This generic fallback identifies a metadata gap; it is not an evidence assessment.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUKCIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT Dates, place, language, people and events; missing confidence metadata disclosed · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

Agent citation CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUKCIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Source count is transparent, and duplicate URLs count only once.

CIT-CORE-CATALHOYUK

Çatalhöyük: record evidence guide

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1405/

whc.unesco.org

CIT-CORE001-CATALHOYUK-PROJECT

Catalhoyuk: The Site

https://catalhoyuk.com/site

Catalhoyuk Research Project

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