This site is situated in the Konya Plain (between Boncuklu, which is about 9,5 km away, and Pınarbaşı). It was firstly excavated in 1961-1965 by James Mellaart. 
Çatalhöyük dates from the PPNB to the Early Chalcolithic (between ca. 7500 and 5500 cal. BC)