Free Çatalhöyük discovery card

Compare a surviving room, a modern model and an excavation section. Keep what you see separate from what a source explains.

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Low walls, plastered floor and room boundaries beneath the protective shelter at Çatalhöyük — Excavated remains of a house, photographed in 2008. The upper structure is not fully preserved. Verity Cridland · 22 September 2008 · CC BY 2.0. Existing web derivative resized and converted to WebP; no new crop, colour edit or reconstruction. Reused unchanged. Source record for layers also records an earlier suppression edit. Image record ↗

1. Remains / entrance: find two walls and a floor boundary in the cover photograph. Write one visible observation and, separately, the source that explains roof access.

2. Experiment / light: identify a platform and white surface in the modern reconstruction. Propose a light-testing question and explain how a model differs from surviving remains.

3. Sequence / build again: sketch construction, use, filling and rebuilding from the section photograph. Why can a visible band not automatically be assigned one year?

4. Household / connection: compare the 2025 study summary with Bonn's explanation. Write one finding about maternal connections and one question about government that it cannot answer alone.

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