The sprawling ruins of Çatalhöyük – a vast, ancient human settlement in what we now know as Turkey – are much like a precursor to the modern metropolis of today. Yet, over the course of 9,000 years, times have certainly changed.
"Perinate, neonate, and infants were buried in more variable locations within the house."
In the new study, Schotsmans and fellow researchers examined the skeletal remains of former Çatalhöyük individuals, over 800 of whom have been excavated since the early 1990s; the team also analyzed the pigments used on them with an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer.
What is clear, however, is that there's some kind of link between the numbers of burials within a dwelling and layers of painting found on the walls above the grave.senior researcher and anthropologist Marco Milella from the University of Bern in Switzerland.Aside from the issue of pigment, not everybody in Çatalhöyük was buried in the same way, or perhaps buried at all.
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