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The 22 pages that link to Çatalhöyük, each with the reason it gives.

• NeolithicBroader topic: Its architecture offers a vivid case of life in a substantial farming settlement.

• AnatoliaBroader topic: Its dense houses and art document an early farming community in Anatolia.

• Göbekli TepeRelated: Its later, dense settlement provides a contrast in scale and social organization.

• ArchaeobotanyBroader topic: Its plant assemblages illuminate farming, gathering, and food practices in a major early settlement.

• AdobeBroader topic: Its densely packed houses included walls made from mudbrick.

• Archaeological siteBroader topic: Its densely packed houses and long occupation reveal changing community life.

• PrehistoryBroader topic: Its houses and wall paintings preserve evidence of settled community life.

• BurialBroader topic: Its domestic interments connect burial with household space.

• Pre-Pottery NeolithicBroader topic: Its later occupation illustrates how settled communities developed beyond the earliest farming villages.

• Neolithic EuropeBroader topic: Its dense settlement offers a comparison for communities near Europe's farming origins.

• KonyaRelated: The archaeological site links the modern region to some of the earliest known settled communities.

• TellBroader topic: Its densely rebuilt houses formed a settlement mound without conventional streets.

• Fertility riteBroader topic: Its figurines and wall art have prompted debated interpretations involving fertility and ritual.

• Mother goddessBroader topic: Its figurines and wall imagery sparked influential, contested claims about prehistoric mother-goddess worship.

• Neolithic religionBroader topic: Household burials, wall paintings, and installations provide evidence often interpreted in religious terms.

• GranaryBroader topic: Its dense settlement and food storage illustrate early agricultural household economies.

• Ian HodderBroader topic: Hodder’s excavations there shaped his later interpretations of households, images, and memory.

• Pre-Pottery Neolithic BCompared with: It offers a later regional comparison, not a typical PPNB settlement.

• Central Anatolia RegionBroader topic: Its dense houses and wall art document early settled life on the plateau.

• EmmerBroader topic: Emmer was among the crops cultivated by this major early farming community.

• Hassuna cultureCompared with: Its urban-like density contrasts with the smaller village settlements associated with Hassuna.

• Cradle of civilizationBroader topic: It shows complex settled life before the rise of Mesopotamian city-states.