Catal Huyuk Ceramics

From turkish çatal fork höyük tumulus was a very large neolithic and chalcolithic proto city settlement in southern anatolia which existed from approximately 7100 bc to 5700 bc and flourished around 7000 bc.

Catal huyuk ceramics. In july 2012 it was inscribed as a unesco world heritage site. It has long been thought that pottery styles and shapes were influenced by earlier organic containers such as baskets. This tradition begins at çatalhöyük where the oldest pottery known from anatolia has been found. It is often argued that the shape and decorative patterns.

The houses were built right up against each other and the people who lived in them traveled over the town s rooftops and entered their homes through holes in the roofs climbing down a ladder. The oldest pottery was fired unpainted and unglazed and had a very simple bag shaped form. Also çatal höyük and çatal hüyük. The pottery was fired in closed kilns outside of houses.

Turkey today is known for its beautiful ceramics. Excavations 1961 65 by the british archaeologist james mellaart have shown that anatolia in neolithic times was the centre of an advanced culture. Catal huyuk catalhoyuk archeological site c 7 500 5 700 bce this unesco world heritage site with an estimated population of around 10 000 and composed entirely of mud brick buildings is the most extensive and best preserved neolithic site found to date. There is also evidence of an irrigation system previously thought to have originated in mesopotamia over a thousand years later.

By andrew hendersona pot found in trench 1 of the west mound at ҫatalhӧyük which has basket like features although technologies evolve and change fundamentally their core function and designs often remain the same. çatalhöyük had no streets or foot paths.