How did people enter their houses?

Through holes in the roof using ladders

Where were many of the dead buried?

Beneath house floors and platforms

Which famous figurine was found at Çatalhöyük?

A seated woman flanked by two big cats

Çatalhöyük Quiz: Rooftop Doors and Neolithic Homes

Nine thousand years ago thousands of people packed their mud-brick houses wall to wall on the Konya Plain, and this Çatalhöyük quiz explains how they lived. Play 10 interactive questions on rooftop entrances, plastered wall paintings, burials beneath floors, James Mellaart, Ian Hodder, the seated woman figurine and the UNESCO listing.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
In which country is Çatalhöyük?
Age
Roughly when was Çatalhöyük occupied?
Entry
How did people enter their houses?
Burials
Where were many of the dead buried?
Art
What decorated many interior walls?
Mellaart
Which archaeologist first excavated the site from 1961?
Hodder
Who led a long research project at the site from 1993?
Figurine
Which famous figurine was found at Çatalhöyük?
Map
What do some researchers think one wall painting shows?
UNESCO
When did Çatalhöyük become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: In which country is Çatalhöyük?
Answer: Turkey
It lies on the Konya Plain in central Anatolia.
Q2: Roughly when was Çatalhöyük occupied?
Answer: About 7100 to 5950 BCE
It is one of the oldest large settlements known.
Q3: How did people enter their houses?
Answer: Through holes in the roof using ladders
Houses were built wall to wall with no streets between them.
Q4: Where were many of the dead buried?
Answer: Beneath house floors and platforms
Families lived above their ancestors.
Q5: What decorated many interior walls?
Answer: Paintings and plaster reliefs
Images include bulls, vultures and hunting scenes.
Q6: Which archaeologist first excavated the site from 1961?
Answer: James Mellaart
His work made Çatalhöyük world-famous.
Q7: Who led a long research project at the site from 1993?
Answer: Ian Hodder
The project used modern scientific methods for 25 years.
Q8: Which famous figurine was found at Çatalhöyük?
Answer: A seated woman flanked by two big cats
It is displayed in Ankara's Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.
Q9: What do some researchers think one wall painting shows?
Answer: A town plan with a volcano
The mural may depict the twin-peaked Hasan Dağı.
Q10: When did Çatalhöyük become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Answer: 2012
It was recognized as a key site of the Neolithic.

Çatalhöyük Quiz – A Town Without Streets

Çatalhöyük, on the Konya Plain in central Turkey, was home to thousands of people from about 7100 to 5950 BCE. Its mud-brick houses were packed together with no streets, so residents walked across rooftops and entered by ladders.

Inside, walls were plastered and painted with bulls, vultures and hunting scenes, and families buried their dead beneath floors. James Mellaart excavated the site from 1961, and Ian Hodder led a major project from 1993.

Famous finds include a figurine of a seated woman with two large cats and a mural some read as a map with a volcano. Çatalhöyük was listed by UNESCO in 2012.

What This Quiz Teaches

History fans and travelers will enjoy these questions.

Where Çatalhöyük is
How people lived
What art they made
Who excavated it
Which finds are famous

Did You Know?

Houses were rebuilt on top of older ones.
Obsidian was traded from nearby volcanoes.
The site has East and West mounds.
Protective roofs now cover excavation areas.
Residents farmed wheat and herded sheep.