The construction is interesting. As with a lot of Mesolithic and Neolithic towns, the domiciles backed up to the de facto city wall (no windows on that side). At Catalhoyuk the ‘streets’ were the roofs of the houses, and the entrance doubled as the smoke-hole.
As these guys note, there were no formal cemetery outside of town, as far as is known. The family dead were buried in the floor of the home. The Sumerians did the same thing. It seems odd, but it worked for thousands of years, so I’ll cut ‘em some slack. :^)
That woman in the chair! Wow. Sure does look like a throne, but if they existed for 1500 years I wonder where her life fell in that number and for how long was she even known or remembered? Was it a during her lifetime thing or did she achieve some kind of mythology after death, a ‘she was a god’ thing? Became revered after death as a god or some acknowledgement of her importance?
All pretty interesting. Thanks for putting it up :)
One more thing.
The found uncooked bread. They ate grains.
All those little statues of fat women, how did they get that fat on a diet of grains?
What else did they eat that put weight on like that!?
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