A Tale of Two Platforms: Commingled Remains and the Life-Course of Houses at Neolithic Çatalhöyük

Haddow, Scott D.; Sadvari, Joshua; Knüsel, Christopher J.; Hadad, Rémi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22554-8_2

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“…Most of the burials are of single individuals usually tightly flexed and interred in burial pits, accompanied at times with material culture. Most of the graves are located beneath house floors, including the majority of adults in rectangular clay-constructed platforms along the northern and eastern walls of the central rooms of houses (25). The funerary context, including burial treatment, form, and location, is relatively uniform throughout the occupation of the site, and suggests a society with a clear sense of the community of the deceased ancestors lying beneath.…”

Section: The Community: Discovery and Contextmentioning

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Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

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Knüsel

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y ago in Southwest Asia set into motion a series of profound health, lifestyle, social, and economic changes affecting human populations throughout most of the world. However, the social, cultural, behavioral, and other factors surrounding health and lifestyle associated with the foraging-to-farming transition are vague, owing to an incomplete or poorly understood contextual archaeological record of living conditions. Bioarchaeological investigation of the extraordinary record of human remains and their context from Neolithic Çatalhöyük (7100–5950 cal BCE), a massive archaeological site in south-central Anatolia (Turkey), provides important perspectives on population dynamics, health outcomes, behavioral adaptations, interpersonal conflict, and a record of community resilience over the life of this single early farming settlement having the attributes of a protocity. Study of Çatalhöyük human biology reveals increasing costs to members of the settlement, including elevated exposure to disease and labor demands in response to community dependence on and production of domesticated plant carbohydrates, growing population size and density fueled by elevated fertility, and increasing stresses due to heightened workload and greater mobility required for caprine herding and other resource acquisition activities over the nearly 12 centuries of settlement occupation. These changes in life conditions foreshadow developments that would take place worldwide over the millennia following the abandonment of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, including health challenges, adaptive patterns, physical activity, and emerging social behaviors involving interpersonal violence.

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Section: The Community: Discovery and Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

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Knüsel

Haddow

et al. 2019

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The model was shared online, demonstrating an excellent capability for extracting extra value at minimal cost, but a lack of integration and no influence on excavation strategy with little reflexivity. Planned implementations include the example at the Sandby ring fort or at Ç atalhöyük, the Neolithic site in central Anatolia (Knüsel et al 2013;Haddow et al 2016) where the team used 3D image-based modelling to record in situ human remains and confirmed that specific secondary deposition was occurring in that part of the site. When applied during a live excavation, these methods leverage the power of integrated contextual data to improve the reflexivity of the excavation and provide an integrated data source (Berggren et al 2015).…”

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Models and Metadata: The Ethics of Sharing Bioarchaeological 3D Models Online

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2018

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Digital 3D modelling is increasingly common in archaeological recording, but building the models is only part of the story. Sharing and interacting with these digital representations is essential in fostering engagement and ensuring that research is relevant to the broader community. Projects and institutions understand that much of their communication and outreach now take place via digital platforms. However, archaeologists are faced with a variety of challenges when sharing 3D models of human remains online, including metadata curation, accessibility, openness, copyright as well as the ethical implications of sharing digital bioarchaeological data and longterm storage requirements. In this research, metadata from a collection of 3D models of human remains were extracted from SketchFab and analysed to understand how users share 3D models of human remains via online social platforms. The results were contrasted with a critical review of current ethical and technical guidelines, indicating potentially ethically compromising practices, particularly the lack of contextualising metadata for some models. This article proposes and discusses recommendations for developing more strategic approaches to the sharing of 3D data on human remains online, such as assessing and agreeing hosting, licensing and metadata management during project design. Frameworks are provided to support these approaches and make decisions on how to share data openly. ________________________________________________________________ Resumen: La creació n de modelos digitales en 3D es cada vez más comú n en la documentació n arqueoló gica, pero construir los modelos es só lo una parte de la historia. Compartir e interactuar con estas representaciones digitales es esencial para fomentar la participació n y garantizar que la investigació n sea pertinente a la comunidad en general. Los proyectos y las instituciones ahora entienden que gran parte de su comunicació n y difusió n en el futuro se llevarán a cabo a través de plataformas digitales. Sin

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“…Falkingham et al, 2014), their strategic value is in analytical and interpretative applications. For these well-planned, integrated, and reflexive approaches are required (see Haddow et al, 2016;Wilhelmson and Dell'Unto, 2015) focused on learning or interpretative requirements (Terras, 1999).…”

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“…They progressed from documenting only fully exposed skeletons to recording multiple excavation phases (Knüsel et al, 2013;Berggren et al, 2015) with an integrated recording workflow using tablets, Microsoft Office and ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 (Issavi and Taylor, 2014, p. 168). Haddow et al (2016) were able to use these models to virtually analyze the distribution of two skeletal assemblages found within adjacent platforms in one part of the site, Building 52. This enabled the team to simultaneously analyze different phases of excavation and distinguish that crania and other elements within the deposits in the northeast platform were disturbed, removed, retained, and redeposited.…”

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Recording In Situ Human Remains in Three Dimensions

Ulguim

2017

Human Remains: Another Dimension

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A Tale of Two Platforms: Commingled Remains and the Life-Course of Houses at Neolithic Çatalhöyük

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

Models and Metadata: The Ethics of Sharing Bioarchaeological 3D Models Online

Recording In Situ Human Remains in Three Dimensions

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