We explore the ways in which residents of Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Anatolia differentiated
themselves as well as the ways in which they did not. We integrate numerous data sets in …

Houses are rich resources for understanding prehistoric social structure. However,
conventional working methods often handle houses as stable entities that reflect the nature …

This volume explores the role of religion and ritual in the origin of settled life in the Middle
East, focusing on the repetitive construction of houses or cult buildings in the same place …

Until very recently, the occupation at Catalhoyuk East was portrayed as relatively
homogeneous and unchanging. The results from the excavations of the upper strata at …

Archaeologists have adopted the Gini coefficient to evaluate unequal accumulations of
material, supporting narratives modelled on modern inequality discourse. Proxies are …

Hunter‐gatherer architectural practices are one of the main sources of data to understand
the complex land use of these societies. In the hyperarid Atacama Desert coast (Northern …

The study of the prehistoric origins and development of violence is obscured by a tendency
to treat evidence for ritual practices and violence as unrelated phenomena that are thus …

Abstract An Early Neolithic, Körös culture settlement was excavated in 1977–78 at Szolnok-
Szanda in the heartland of the Great Hungarian Plain in Hungary. The eastern part of House …

This paper investigates the impact of high-definition archaeological techniques on
understanding Çatalhöyük and urbanization. Under Professor Ian Hodder's twenty-five-year …

The scope of the present paper is to scrutinize the evidence regarding settlement continuity,
especially where continuous replication of the same buildings is involved, and to investigate …