Arson or Accident? The Burning of a Neolithic House at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Twiss, Katheryn C.; Bogaard, Amy; Bogdan, Doru; Carter, Tristan; Charles, Michael; Farid, Shahina; Russell, Nerissa; Stevanović, Mirjana; Yalman, E. Nurcan; Yeomans, Lisa

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“…Similar to observations at other PPNB villages (Bovin, 2000;Twiss et al, 2008), PPNB household members at Tell Halula regularly rebuilt their houses. Some of this was probably related to routine household maintenance and cleaning.…”

Section: Tell Halula House Lifecycles and Burial Practicessupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Ethnographic research (David and Kramer, 2000) has demonstrated that household maintenance is a major challenge. As outlined at Çatal-höyük (Bovin, 2000;Twiss et al, 2008), examination of storage areas has revealed significant evidence for rodent infestations. Nevertheless, it is not clear that these would have resulted in the urgent need to burn or rebuild.…”

Section: Tell Halula House Lifecycles and Burial Practicesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…As a group, researchers are providing important new understandings of the separate elements of domestic life within specific Neolithic settlements. At Çatalhöyük, for example, research by Bogaard et al (2009) helps us understand the nature of food storage, while work by Twiss et al (2008) provides new foundational research on the nature of feasting. These are important grassroots projects, and with discussion of the broad interplay of these themes and mortuary ritual, we will gain a much more detailed perspective on the nature of household structure within individual settlements.…”

Section: The Near Eastern Neolithic Village: Thinking About the Housementioning

confidence: 98%

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The changing Neolithic household: Household autonomy and social segmentation, Tell Halula, Syria

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The changing Neolithic household: Household autonomy and social segmentation, Tell Halula, Syria

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…Figurines are consistently found in external midden and 30% of buildings contain no figurines at all (see Table 3 in Meskell et al 2008). Contra Mellaart, we have not found a correlation between elaborate buildings and the presence of figurines (e.g., building 52; see Twiss et al 2008). Secondary deposition is a general pattern seen across the site for all materials; however, certain things such as shell, bone, and obsidian were periodically cached within houses at Çatalhöyük.…”

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confidence: 81%

Articulate Bodies: Forms and Figures at Çatalhöyük

Nakamura

Meskell

2009

J Archaeol Method Theory

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This paper examines the materializing practices of bodies at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. We focus on the clay and stone figurine corpus (over 1,800 total, with over 1,000 of those being diagnostic), but also consider other media such as wall paintings and sculptured features, as well as the skeletal evidence. This paper is the first attempt to analyze particular bodily characteristics in the Çatalhöyük figurine repertoire from a perspective that investigates, rather than assumes, a priori the representational priorities of their makers. Within a wide range of anthropomorphic and abbreviated figurines, we find that specific areas such as the stomach and buttocks were often clearly delineated and emphasized, whereas demarcation of primary sexual characteristics was typically downplayed. These traits and their material "prominence" might underscore specific bodily areas that have generally been overlooked as potential sites of articulation and attention. Our work challenges older assumptions that figurines were always engaged in projects of either deification or self-making. Instead, we suggest that these body types might mediate other kinds of social concerns and practices.

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“…One important indication that these hunts were primarily of ritual or social significance is the fact that the wild animals depicted were not essential to the community's subsistence, or played only a secondary role as a source of food. Thus far, there is no evidence in Çatal Höyük for the ritual cremation of buildings, a topic often debated in research (Twiss et al 2008).…”

Section: Central Anatoliamentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Temples’ in the Neolithic and Copper Age in Southeast Europe

Lichter

2014

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Several buildings dated to the Neolithic period and Copper Age in Southeast Europe have been designated as ‘temple’, ‘sanctuary’, ‘cultic structure’ or ‘place of cult’ in scholarly works. The present contribution discusses the problems of identifying religious architecture; it elucidates some of these archaeological records and evaluates arguments with which the designation ‘temple’ or ‘cultic structure’ is justified. Thereby, the author concludes that no structure has been found among the houses excavated in Southeast Europe that can be classified as a ‘sanctuary’. Instead, there are many indications that ritual activities took place in every dwelling and that these were specially decorated for such occasions. The author also considers so-called ‘special buildings’ of the Neolithic period in the Near East and discusses their absence in Southeast Europe.

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Arson or Accident? The Burning of a Neolithic House at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Cited by 50 publications

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The changing Neolithic household: Household autonomy and social segmentation, Tell Halula, Syria

The changing Neolithic household: Household autonomy and social segmentation, Tell Halula, Syria

Articulate Bodies: Forms and Figures at Çatalhöyük

‘Temples’ in the Neolithic and Copper Age in Southeast Europe

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