What happened when the Çatalhöyük burial holes were full and the houses had no more room?
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The question here may be based on some assumptions, relating the culture of the distant past to that of today. the simple-seeming question
What happened when the burial holes where full and no more room was in the house?
Is probably answered by a simple-seeming answer: They buried them somewhere else.
The issue is that we assume the burials might be related to that of those we are associated with, those of our parents or family members. Research at Çatalhöyük showed discrepancy with what we expect to be normal. From an article at LiveScience, No Family Plots, Just Communal Burials In Ancient Settlement (emphasis mine)
They found that the people buried beneath the floor of each house were, in general, not related to each other. With the possible exception of one building, this occurred throughout the entire site for as long as the settlement existed.
This article cites Ian Hodder, who has lead the site excavation since 1993. You can take in several lengthy lectures by Hodder on Youtube (links to follow). One presentation at the British Institute discusses the same study on the distribution of burials timestamp 26:35. There is also a graphic at that point showing the uneven distribution of discovered burials. They are not found under every structure.
So the concept of 'burying ancestors under the floor' is not well understood at all, but it was probably had a much different meaning for those residents of this city 10,000 years ago than for us today.
(Though the following lectures are lengthy, they give an overview of the scale of scientific inquiry going on at Çatalhöyük, how much we are learning and how much we still don't know)
Some Ian Hodder lectures to enjoy:
The leopard changes its spots: recent work on societal change at Çatalhöyük - Prof Ian Hodder-The British Institute
Ian Hodder | What we learned from 25 Years of Research at Catalhoyuk - the Oriental Institute
Update:
Another video showed up on my recommended list today, which is very specific and reveals quite a bit concerning the problems associated with drawing conclusions from remains found. The presentation is by two members of the human remains team at Çatalhöyük , Christopher Knüsel and Eline Schotsmans. The video is House Societies, Ancestors, and Burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, and discusses the layers of burials, terminology difficulties with describing remains conditions, and problems trying to draw conclusions by comparing what is observed to observations from more recent behaviors.
Two sections may be of interest here, at 25:46 there is a discussion concerning an individual that was the 'last' to be buried under a specific platform.(No light is shed on what happened next, however, since we have no way of knowing.)
A later segment discusses difficulties in understanding a definition for how these individuals might have been considered 'ancestors', with a slide showing various interpretations of what that might have meant.
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