What happened when the Çatalhöyük burial holes were full and the houses had no more room?
score:11
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.
More post
- 📝 Could the 1864 US presidential election have been postponed?
- 📝 Why did slave dealers and buyers in the Antebellum South especially value enslaved persons with "good teeth" and "good front teeth"?
- 📝 Is this depiction of command hierarchy, with the chain of command standing next to each other, historically accurate?
- 📝 Is there a complete list of German cities bombed by the Allies in WWII?
- 📝 What were the trade routes between Mapungubwe and other civilizations?
- 📝 What was the earliest black advocacy for Palestinian rights?
- 📝 World History - Big Bang to TODAY
- 📝 Why did France make an alliance with the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont in the 1850's?
- 📝 Where can I find an English translation of 'Il Fioretto della Bibbia'?
- 📝 How effective was the (Western) Allies bombing campaign over Germany in drawing down the Eastern Front Luftwaffe?
- 📝 Is the word God (or it's equivalent) always as old as the civilization's earliest written texts?
- 📝 What weapon systems have come and gone very quickly?
- 📝 Has there ever been a case where a tribe/nation tried to reclaim the land they had left before?
- 📝 How did currency exchange work in the Middle Ages, especially if the coins are not recognized?
- 📝 What is the methodogy used to determine the exact genetic flow from one area to another and the times in which it flowed?
- 📝 Why were Japanese submarines not able to defend in the Battle of the Philippine Sea?
- 📝 Is The King (2019) historically realistic?
- 📝 How common was gun ownership by Londoners in the early 20th century?
- 📝 Why are the USA and Canada's states border so straight?
- 📝 Has the concept of "annulment" of a putative marriage changed over time in the Roman Catholic Church?
- 📝 When would one carry a sword on a shoulder with grip upwards?
- 📝 Are there factors which caused the printing revolution to begin in Europe in 1450 and not some other place some other time?
- 📝 What is the symbolism behind the Sauser family crest from Sigriswil, Switzerland?
- 📝 Was the British Empire bigger than the combined empires of the Iberian Union in terms of claimed land area?
- 📝 How is historical "average calorie consumption" data from eighty years ago estimated?
- 📝 Can anybody help identify this uniform ? Circa WW1
- 📝 The WWI Christmas truce of 1914 resulted in no consequences, in spite of clear warnings against such beforehand - why were there no courts-martial?
- 📝 Examples of wars without power as a motive
- 📝 What is the main reason for Germany's strong economy?
- 📝 What did Richelieu mean by his "six lines" quote?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What happened when the Çatalhöyük burial holes were full and the houses had no more room?
- 📝 Were there any Germans in Japan after the surrender of Germany in May, 1945 and if so, what happened to them?
- 📝 What happened to the coins in ancient Greece and Rome when monarchs changed?
- 📝 What were the insignia of the Western Roman Empire and what happened to them?
- 📝 What alternate north-south supply routes did the Soviet Union have when the Volga and Stalingrad were under attack?
- 📝 What were all the countries of the First, Second and Third Worlds, when WWII ended?
- 📝 What incentives were there for Soviet and Chinese politicians to try climb to the top when there was so much history of deposing their own?
- 📝 What happened in Rome, when the western empire "fell"?
- 📝 In WWII, what were the major differences in tank combat on the eastern and western fronts?
- 📝 What were the EMP effects, if any, of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- 📝 When and where were the first coins made showing the currency or a face value?
- 📝 What East German laws and regulations were extended to the West after unification?
- 📝 What were the demographics and economics of South-East Asian islands around year 1400?
- 📝 When did the English and Americans realize that vegetables were healthy?
- 📝 What were the Nazi racial views on Hungarians and the Japanese?
- 📝 What did other European powers say when Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- 📝 What were the “passports” that diplomats requested when declaring war?
- 📝 At what point were the most current and former US Presidents alive?
- 📝 What were the thoughts of the Celts, Romans and other ancient European people about the standing stones which survive from prehistoric times?
- 📝 What were the original casualty projections for Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- 📝 What changes happened in law enforcement and criminal trials during the Nazi era in Germany?
- 📝 What do historians mean when they talk about "supply side" and "demand side" explanations of the industrial revolution?
- 📝 What were the political and military constraints on Vercingetorix at Alesia?
- 📝 What were the operating principles of Japan's MITI during the 1950s and 60s?
- 📝 What were the factors that aided Margaret Thatcher in her victory against the trade unions when her predecessors failed?
- 📝 What were the Government Press Prosecutions of 1858 and why did they occur?
- 📝 What transit restrictions were in place in Occupied Germany limiting military and civilian movement between the four occupation zones?
- 📝 What did the Baltic Fleet do in Reval in 1904 and when was it there?
- 📝 What were the conditions that Pieter Stuyvesant found when he arrived in America?
- 📝 What were the key differences between United States' and Indian revolutions?