Landmark Europe archaeological
Çatalhöyük
7500 BCE – 5700 BCE · 1,800 years
One of the world's earliest urban settlements in central Turkey, a Neolithic proto-city of up to 10,000 inhabitants with remarkable wall paintings
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Çatalhöyük on Wikipedia.
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Elsewhere in Europe at the time
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Dated moments inside this span
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And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape 6600 BCE – still standing Chinchorro culture 7000 BCE – 1499 BCE Cueva de las Manos 7300 BCE – still standing Quebrada de Humahuaca 9000 BCE – still standing Kuk Early Agricultural Site 8000 BCE – still standing Ischigualasto (Valley of the Moon) 9000 BCE – still standing
Image credits2 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- ÇatalhöyükMurat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- NinevehOmar Siddeeq Yousif · CC BY-SA 4.0
