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New insights on commemoration of the dead through mortuary and architectural use of pigments at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

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Çatalhöyük

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Primary contextual study linking pigments, burials, and architecture while keeping broader theology inferential.

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Çatalhöyük was a dense Neolithic settlement in central Anatolia where houses, burials, art, and pigment practices were closely associated.

The settlement and material evidence are strong. The ideological claims about goddess worship and matriarchy are much less certain.
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At Çatalhöyük, burials and pigment use occurred in architectural contexts that support an association between mortuary practice and household commemoration.

Answer / theory: House-floor burials likely linked household, memory, ancestry, and identity. What supports it: Repeated burial patterns under platforms and floors. What is weak or disputed: Exact beliefs about ancestors or afterlife are unknown. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for practice, mixed for interpretation.
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The listed Çatalhöyük ancient-DNA study supports predominantly maternal within-building genetic links; it does not establish political matriarchy or sex-biased mobility.

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The Çatalhöyük figurine corpus does not establish a single central Mother Goddess religion.

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