As far as in the 1960s, archaeologists felt that Katalohuk was something. And not just because the newcomer Basti was one of the oldest living places in the world.
Researchers believed that women’s Catalhuk had an elevated social status, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in contemporary Türkiye.
But this hunting was only based on the idols that he found and it was believed that Anatolian mother represented the goddess -goddess.
Researchers were able to really change their feelings with only modern archeology methods: society was focused around 9,000 years ago in the Cataloque. He was published by International Research Team led by genetics of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara Journal conclusion Science,
The researchers came to their conclusion after investigating 131 skeletons, which they were buried under the houses of Catellhuk people.
DNA analysis has shown that people buried under the same house were often related – in favor of their mother. In other words, when a man and a woman entered a partnership in the neolithic colony, they went with the woman’s family, not the man. The houses were formed on a maternal basis.
And there was another indication that women had a greater position than men: archaeologists found five times more than the graves buried with the female body with the male.
Is Cataloouk a maternalist?
In recent times, the patriarchy house, where women walk with their male partner’s family after marriage, were more common – and formed an patriarchy. So, does reverse mean that the residents of Catalhoyuk, who lived in about 7100 to 6000 BCE, lived in a maternalist?
Not necessarily, said Prehistoric archaeologist eva rosenstockWho participated in excavation in Katalohuk and researched scientific and cultural archeology.
Rosenstock told DW, “Whether a society is matrical or patriarically, it does not tell you who has power.” “But those things often go by hand.”
Change children with neighbors
Digging, if you do, is an easy emotion required for researchers usable for genetic analysis.
Catalhoyuk was located in an area with an continental climate, with strong ups and downs between winter and summer. Under the condition of the thesis, even the teeth, which were recently known as one of the best sources of DNA, do not keep it forever.
But there is a small part of the human body that has gymnastics, which is the correct source of DNA in adverse conditions as those in the Catoloyuc region: the petrus part of the temporary bone located in the inner ear.
“It’s safe like a DNA!” Rosenstock said.
It was through analyzing the material in this “DNA safe” that the researchers discovered a maternal relationship between the same house buried under the same house.
But not all the people buried under the same house were related. Archaeologists believe that it was not out of ordinary in Katalohuk society to switch children, so that your child grows up in a different family. This was probably done in an attempt to guarantee the equal distribution of resources and according to experts, the points of the society give importance to the idea of equal rights for all.
“If your own child increases three doors down, you are probably not just going to advocate your home to get the best of everything,” Rosenstock said.
But how did a society evaluate equality and focused on women in patriarchy that dominates Central Europe in recent times? Rosenstock has no answer – at least not yet: “This is the next exciting question.”
This article was original in German.
