Rebuilding Çatalhöyük, a large Neolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia. Turkey in present day.
All assets and props created by me, except the sheep and goat models.
Here is the tutorial were I cover modeling, texturing and city building:
I find its unique architecture very intriguing, with holes in the ceiling to access the dwellings, and the rooftops served as streets.
Beautiful work. Very interesting that the buildings had their entrances in the ceiling. It seems unintuitive and unpractical, considering that you had to pass through the smoke of the fireplaces /ovens, and the difficulty of carrying a load up and down a ladder. Also hard to defend in case of a battle. Maybe that’s why somebody later had the idea to place the doors in the walls.
Thanks!, it is possible that they made something similar to what they already had, it’s believed that these dwelling were made by people who lived in pits, of course it’s impractical for us.
The design of that village seems like it would be outright confusing to navigate without maps or signs, but I guess if you lived there for a while you would know your way around. When I was young, I had tremendous interest in mazes and maze books, but perhaps not to the point where I would want to live in one.
Even later on, people used the roofs of their homes as additional living space because many of them were just one to two rooms and were built very close together. The concept of everyone having a private yard completely surrounding the home was fairly recent in the historical sense.
Fascinating reconstruction. I love how 3D can be used to recreate the past. I’ve been reading Jean Auel’s Earth’s Children book series and although it happens way earlier (~30.000 BCE), and the settlements in there aren’t as sophisticated, your work strikes the same chord within me. Thanks for sharing
Yes, it would be difficult to find our house there, and very diffucult to walk around the city with those ladders, but this is a city from 9000 years ago, they didn’t need streets, they didn’t use wheels, nor many rooms, I think they created only what they needed to live.
Apparently they didn’t have defensive walls, but this honeycumb like structure was their security.
Thank you! I’m glad you like it, I’ve wanted to read the clan of the cave bear for a long time, I’ve heard very good things about these books, I’ll start reading them, Thanks!
