1. Do Now
You are an archaeologist who has uncovered the remains shown below during a dig. What conclusions can you draw from these remains about the community you have discovered and the people who lived there?
What kind of technology did the people use?
What were their homes like?
What kind of foods did they eat? How did they get this food?
Did the group practice specialization? How can you tell?

2. Where was Catal Huyuk? World’s First City
32 Acres (21 football fields)

3. Largest city uncovered by archaeologists
Once housed over 5,000 people
How could these people stay in one place so close together and for so long?

4. Why did people enter their homes through the roof by climbing a ladder?
People learn agriculture and domestication
Homes had brick walls coated with white plaster
Large flat roof
Houses built right next to each other

5. 1/3 buildings were temples  what does this teach us?

6. Fireplace?

8. Wall paintings of cattle, leopards, and other things  what does this teach us?

9. Cooking area
Obsidian Mirror
Bone Tools

10. Food Storage  Surplus?
Specialization
Copper

11. Temples indicate religious beliefs
Female figurines
Found in grain room

13. Buried dead within village
Tightly bent and placed in baskets of wrapped in mats

14. First CIVILIZATION
Culture that has developed systems of specialization, religion, learning and government.

15. Closing: OSA vs. NSA Old Stone Age New Stone Age
developed specialization made cave drawings
had a stable food supply were hunter gatherers
lived in temporary homes domesticated animals
were farmers traded with other people
were nomads
Old Stone Age
New Stone Age

16. Closing: OSA vs. NSA Old Stone Age New Stone Age
Developed specializations
Had stable food supply
Were farmers
Domesticated animals
Traded with other people
Lived in temporary homes
Made cave drawings
Were hunter gatherers
Were nomads