Dr Kevin Kay - Did Neolithic people think like archaeologists? Enacting the past at Çatalhöyük

[@michellezenner]

In reading about Anatolian baby burials, I found this also interesting. The earlier paper I read suggested infant burial jars were also buried within structure and moved or carried with people who moved & rebuilt homes. It is suggestive of cultural religious belief, no? Nomadic peoples had known lineage, which provided status-it is said. Thank you.

[@helenamcginty4920]

No. Not necessarily religious ideas. Just wanting to keep the infant near. A friend of my daughter in law kept the urn witb the ashes of her stillborn baby by her bed so she could say good night. She wasnt religious. I am an atheist and more or less by accident have the caskets of our parents' ashes in my home. Brought with me from the UK.

[@onenewworldmonkey]

The author of "head hunters of Formosa" said they also buried their dead under the hearth stone and dug them up. It was written in the early 20th century so this practice is presumably still going on. They were head hunters but not cannibals. She said "no head, no wife", which sticks out in my memory.

[@onenewworldmonkey]

I just remembered that in the book I mentioned in another comment about head hunters of Formosa that their ancestors were almost like Gods to them. If they had a problem they would pray to their ancestors for help. That is, those under the hearth stone. That is probably why those teeth were dug up and reburied above them. Someone needed help with a problem. Curious how great a distance of time and land between Anatolia and Formosa. I do think many underestimate how far a person can travel. Just ask Marco Polo. That behavior lasting 9000 years makes us the weirdos.

[@MickAngelhere]

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