Social organization in Çatalhöyük
 

Graeber / Wengrow 221: "the newer investigations in Çatalhöyük [Anatolia/Turkey] [reveal] the way in which household organization permeates almost every aspect of social life. Despite the considerable size and density of the built-up area, there is no evidence for central authority. Each household appears more or less a world unto itself--a discrete locus of storage, production and consumption. Each also seems to have held a significant degree of control over its own rituals, especially where treatment of the dead was concerned"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #authority, #city, #death, #ritual, #prehistory

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