Çumra

On the Konya Plain near Çumra rises the mound of Çatalhöyük, the remains of a remarkable Neolithic settlement. Its closely packed mudbrick houses had no streets between them: people moved over the roofs and entered rooms from above. The settlement grew on the alluvial fan of the Çarşamba River, where successive generations rebuilt houses on earlier ruins. Wall paintings, reliefs and burials within the buildings preserve evidence of the lives of an early farming community.