Çatalhöyük was a Neolitic settlemented located in Southern Anatolia, approximately between the years 7500 and 5700 BC. It was abandoned before the Bronze Age. It was been declared World Heritage because it is one of the world's best preserved sites.
In the rests founded, there is evidence of an egalitarian society as no distinctive features or objects were encountered. People in Çatalhöyük had developed good agricultural and animal husbandry skills. Other poblators were in charge of hunting which continued being one of the important economic activities. Also pottery and the manufacturing of obsidian tools were main industries. Tools were probably traded for other commodities. Evidence has been found that proves how it was the first settlement in to world to mine and smelt metal.