Why is Catal Huyuk an important archaeological find?

Imagine traveling back in time to 8,000 B.C, you find yourself in a village with strange layered houses, ladders through roofs and people bantering and trading all around you, Catal Huyuk is where you are. Catal Huyuk was Neolithic town located on a plain in what is now present day Turkey. In around 6,000 B.C this town covered 32 acres of land which is about 24 football fields put together. Catal Huyuk was the biggest Neolithic town discovered in the Middle East, it also had 1,000 houses and a population on 5,000-6,000. Yet why was this town of any importance archaelogically?
In this town archaeologists have found so many things that can explain and gives us more detail about the lives of people. The houses in Catal Huyuk were made out of mud-brick, they were layered almost on top each other and had probably the most unusually placed door ever, on the roof! You can see in this picture below what Catal Huyuk might have looked like:

In a house from Catal Huyuk there are 2 rooms, one for storage which includes a kitchen area and another which is the living quarters. By studying the storage room archaeologists have found that the main crop the people grew was wheat, they raised cattle and hunted deer, bear and wolves. Archaeologists have also discovered that they grew peas, gathered crab apples, juniper berries, acorns and almonds. Judging by the fact that they farmed so much, food was probably definitely not a problem for the people of Catal Huyuk , and this means they must have had surplus, which can lead to trading with villages which are in need of food. Also since they farmed and not everyone had to work full time to make food this let other people look for other opportunities and one thing the people in Catal Huyuk people were quite good at was Crafts. The people made tools by chipping and grinding stone, and some of the objects they made include from bone they crafted needles beads, hairpins, and fish hooks. They also wove woolen cloth, made baskets and fashioned leather into pouches. From wood,they made bowls and boxes with lids. These objects, since they might have been new to other villages with not enough free time to experiment, might have also been very good for trading. Another discovery about this Neolithic town is the kind of burial practices they had. For relatives the grave was usually inside the house under the platform which was used by the living as tables, benches or beds. Maybe they were buried inside the house because they were still thought as part of the family? Along with interesting burial spots, evidence shows that some buildings were shrines . These shrines were no larger than a house but the difference was that they were decorated inside with bull horns on the benches, plaster sculptures, and paintings that adorned the walls. Archaeologists think that the paintings on the walls might have shown important events, and because of all this art the shrines might of attracted people from outside the town making Catal Huyuk a religious center for the region. So why does this all matter? Well Catal Huyuk showed us the daily life of the people that lived there, we got to see the kind of diet they had, they kinds of products they used, and the kinds a practices they believed in. It also taught us about the trade in the Neolithic time period. All this information leads us to piecing together the kind of culture the people of Catal Huyuk have and this can teach us and lead us to other important discoveries.