PPT Slide
The houses at Chatal Huyuk were closely packed together, without intervening streets. Access
to the interiors was by wooden ladder from the flat roofs. The houses were built of mad-brick and
had several rooms the biggest of which was c. 4x5m. The main room cuntained benches and
platforms for sitting and sleeping. Life expectancy was short; an average of 34 years for men, 29 for
___Many features of Chatal Huyuk are puzzling. However, although we do not know much of this
neolithic village's political and social development, it serves as a vivid illustration of the huge new
potential offered by the adoption of agriculture in the Ancient Near East.