Milella, Marco (7 September 2019). A multi-proxy analysis of diachronic changes in the social dimensions of sex and age-at-death at neolithic Çatalhöyük (Unpublished). In: Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Bern. 5-7 September 2019.
Among the most important aspects of social identity are sex and age-at-death. How
these two pillars of social identity change during the life course of individuals forms a
focus of archaeological attempts to reconstruct the lived experience and social structure
of past human communities. With few exceptions, however, archaeological exploration of
life course changes are often encumbered by a lack of integration of skeletal evidence,
limited analytical approaches, and lack of a diachronic perspective. The Neolithic of the
Near East provides an ideal archaeological setting to test the links between growing
population densities and cultural complexity and alterations in the social perceptions of
sex and age-at-death. Here, we update and expand previous analyses of gender and the
life course at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Central Anatolia, 7100-5950 cal. B.C.) by means of an
interdisciplinary approach based on palaeopathological, funerary archaeological, and
material cultural evidence, a multivariate analytical strategy, and a comparative
perspective. The latter permits a contextualization of the observed patterns at
Çatalhöyük against the broader picture of the Neolithic Near East. The results provide a
new angle from which to consider the structuring of lived experience in this Neolithic
community through time, at the same time providing a perspective on the social
variability characterizing the Neolithic Near East
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Legal Medicine 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute of Legal Medicine > Anthropology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Milella, Marco |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 310 Statistics 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499) |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sandra Lösch |
Date Deposited: |
17 Sep 2019 09:53 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:30 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/133214 |
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