PPT Slide
__The village of Chatal Hüyük is the largest Neolithic site in the Near East covering 13 hectares. It
was founded in c.7000 BC and the settlement grew raipidly and hecame a prosperous and
well-organised community.
___The inhabitants of Chatal Huyuk grew mainly wheat, barley and peas. They supplemented their
diet by apples, hackberries, almonds and acorns, which were collected locally. The principal meat
source was cattle although it seems that wild animals were also important, judging from the wall
paintings portraying the hunting of red deer, hoars and onagers.
___Most raw materials had to be imported and the village hecame the centrc of a trading complex,
dealing in a wide range of items - timher, obsidian, flint, copper, shells. The craftsmen produced
mainly arrowheads, daggers of flint and ohsidian, stone maceheads, baked clay and carved stone
figurines, textiles, wooden vessels and pottery. Trinkets such as copper heads and lead pendants
were also produced, and copper-smelting.