Archaeology
Who discovered the site of Catalhoyuk
James Mellaart
Burial spot of choice for family members
Under the family home
A society-wide event having to do with food
Feasts
True or false: urbanism has a single definition
No; it is more of a category than a binding definition
The remains of Çatalhöyük fall within what country today?
Turkey
What did archeologists discover about Çatalhöyük homes that led to them being called 'history houses"?
Parts or even entire houses were remade and relatives' remains were for the most part kept on the familial site.
How did people decorate their families' skulls?
They reconstructed their faces with plaster
How did people in Catalhoyuk cook before the invention of clay pots?
True or false: Çatalhöyük had a social hierarchy
False
Is Çatalhöyük considered pre-neolithic, neolithic, or a civilization?
Neolithic
How do archaeologists determine how catalhoyuk changed over time
Stratigraphy
A good luck charm for the house
Claws and teeth
What type of animal did the Çatalhöyük people domesticate?
Cattle
Was Çatalhöyük society or family-focused?
Family focused
What were Çatalhöyük homes made of?
Mud brick
Bone analysis points toward what disease associated with overcrowding?
Osteoperiostitis
It surprised archaeologists to find this in the home instead of a grand temple
Spiritual/religious items
What plants did the Çatalhöyük people consume?
Peas, wheat, and barley
How did Çatalhöyük contrast with Childe's urban revolution theory in terms of architecture?
It had no large monuments/shared buildings
One factor that led to the decline of Catalhoyuk?
Overpopulation
The idea of perceiving artifacts as a piece of a larger history rather than an individual object
Contextual archeology
What decorative bull's skulls were called
Bucranium
Molecular analysis at Catalhoyuk revealed evidence of one of the earliest instances of what food group?
Milk/Dairy
Due to its large population but lack of other key traits of a civilization, what is Çatalhöyük classified as?
A mega-site
This UMass Amherst professor conducted fieldwork at Catalhoyuk
Sonya Atalay