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A study of social organisation, mobility patterns and gendered practices in Neolithic Southwest Asia using 131 #paleogenomes from #Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100-5950 BCE), a major settlement in Central Anatolia with an uninterrupted occupation and an apparent egalitarian structure.
Çatalhöyük individuals revealed no indication of patrilocal mobility (contrary to widespread evidence in European Neolithic).
'throughout the site’s occupation, genetic connections within Çatalhöyük buildings were much more frequently connected via the maternal than the paternal line. We also identified differential funerary treatment of female subadults compared to those of males, with a higher frequency of grave goods associated with females.'
Authors note this pattern weakened through time with more frequent unrelated subadults in burials.
#archaeology #neolithic #earlyfarming #kinship #residence #matrilineal #matrilocal
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.23.600259v1.