English: A big room from Catalhöyük, reconstructed with original finds in their relative positions. Early sixth millennium BC. The houses were crammed together in an agglutinative manner, clustered in a honeycomb-like maze, without footpaths or streets. Most were accessed by holes in the ceiling, which were reached by ladders. The mud-brick houses had plaster interiors; all rooms were kept scrupulously clean, and archaeologists identified very little rubbish in the buildings. The people of Çatalhöyük buried their dead within the houses: human remains have been found in burial pits beneath the floors and, especially, beneath hearths, the platforms within the main rooms, and under beds.