Çatalhöyük at its peak
7,000 BCE* · Event
Large Neolithic proto-city in Anatolia; an emblem of early settled life.
On these timelines: Master, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey
Around 7000 BCE
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Çatalhöyük settled (7100 BCE)
- Earliest evidence of lead smelting (6500 BCE)
- Green Sahara and Saharan rock art (6000 BCE)
- Domestication of the potato (8000 BCE)
- Domestication of rice (8000 BCE)