Exacavations at Çatalhöyük carried on by the Brithish archeologist James Melaart (1925-2012) in 1960s unearthed twelve succesive Neolithic structures. The houses made of sun-dried bricks had flat roofs and were gathered in gropus. Some of these around a courtyard and opened ontu. Two storey houses were equipped with staircases from the ceiling. Walls covered with plaster wer decorated with both paintings an painted relief. Artefacts as well as parts of some buildings belonging to the Chalcolithic settlement are displayed in the Museum of Anatolian Civilsations in Ankara.
The beginnig of human occupation the mound dates back to 9000-7500 BC.
See:
- http://www.catalhoyuk.com/database/catal/areasheet.asp?id=tp
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/prehistoric-art/neolithic-art/a/atalhyk
- Thomas Birch, Thilo Rehren & Ernst Pernicka,The Metallic Finds from Çatalhöyük: A Reviewand Preliminary New Work in: Substantive Technologies at Catalhöyük chapter 17, Hodder (ed) 2013, pp.306-324 - http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1474072/1/Birch%20et%20al%202013%20Catal%20Hoyuk%20copper%20a%20review%20and%20new%20work%20plus%20Appendices.pdf
- Çatalhöyük 2015 Archive Report by members of the Çatalhöyük Research Project - http://archeo.edu.pl/catal/catal2015.pdf