9:57 Lecture begins 1:09:35 Q&A begins (kb)

I thoroughly approve of this new spotlight technology in the presentation deck. Works so much better for online viewing than the invisible laser pointer.

Fascinating lecture, Ian Hodder seems to be a real gentleman and he gives full credit to all of his colleagues on site.

Just fantastic to hear some of the latest news from Catalhoyuk. Thanks to OI for publishing these lectures.

They need more people doing the introductions. In fact, why have the presentation at all?

Legends. I was fortunate to meet Robert at Western Michigan University when he visited. Meeting the man who's works I read much of was beyond a treat for me. Thank you.

The living style sounds like Mesa Verde where folks are living very close together for safety and make use of roof spaces.

Love all the Oriental Institute videos, particularly Dr. Hoder. Thank you!

Perhaps the inhabitants were brought up to be nice and polite to each other? If you are too obnoxious you don't get invited to the midwinter party. Hunter/gatherer lifestyles can be very easy when the environment is as rich and varied as it seems to have been at Çatalhöyük. Together with the agriculture producing grains and legumes, the wild produce would provide a rich and nutritious diet that would leave plenty of time for leisure pursuits.

Soo depressed on what he had to rush through at the end. Those slides, and the information hinted at, sound fascinating!

Love the insight into the thought processes of the various archaeologists as they try to unpick how this ancient society organised itself. And the repeated reminder that every idea is still open to interpretation.

Great presentation. Thank you. Concerning burying the dead in specific houses: The idea that comes to my mind is the house you are born in is the house you buried under. Regardless of who you marry, family lineage would be valued. The woman buried with a "relic head" seems to fit this notion.

The idea that 3500 to 8000 people could not have lived together without violence shows only that those people of today's world can't imagine that situation.

Fantastic lecture.Thank you very much.

I find the genetic bit utterly fascinating and suggestive! And I LOVE the light pointer!!!

I wonder if infrared technology could be used to view the “paintings” found on different levels of plaster.

great work well doing all involved

Why couldn't the talk alone have been 3 hours long?!? I wanted to hear so much more. Great talk!

the leopards tale...i bought the book years ago...thank you for all your work and studies...👍🍀

my theory? the "history houses" are early attempts at spiritual sites, a combination of temple/cemetery where society honored/communicated with their ancestors.

Very interesting stuff, I enjoyed it all 🤗 but somebody needs to teach these people how to present a public lecture 🤔

How rich burials were is hard to judge as the textiles have all disintegrated and textiles could and did enrich burials considerably.

Excellent talk.

Agricultural societies life expectancy declines as their diet is narrowed & diseases become more prevalent (From Q&A section)

Awesome!

Two questions: 1) Without streets and many closely attached housing where did you find human waste dumps? In the houses? the empty areas nearby? Or have you located any waste areas? 2) Did you find any polished axe heads? or just napped blades? Thanks

thank you for all the information and your hard work x very interesting but so obvious that is making me so sad that actually nobody can see it...Î know the language they have been spoken there....and what the PIE of all Indo-European languages are..

i have his book...the leopards tale...👍and live in konya,half an hour from catalhüyük...

to think, 9000 years ago, there were still remaining Ice Age Glaciers still covering significant land.

They were constantly BUMPING THEIR HEADS when they exited through the roof.

Are the "history" houses where heads of families lived and offspring went home to be buried?

Tremendous lecture and an immense shame that he had to cut it short

Very good,it shows how a society can function without the need for violence if everybody obays the rules and cooperate with each other,tie the bonds with marriage strengthens the clan,holding children as ward is an old custom around the world,again strengthens the rules ,you do wrong the child suffers,go,s each way throughout the clan.

I still doubt the egalitarian hypothesis. Transegalitarism, similar to North Pacific american hunter-gatherers, with no formal elites but powerful individuals that acumulated power through networks of reciprocity could be a good tentative explanation of the social structure in Catal Hoyuk. Excelent presentation nonetheless.

Would there be any explanatory value in hypothesizing that men and women lived separately on the site?

The bodies in other houses? “U break it, u buy it!” Or intergenerational debts

40:00 the houses that are more involved, rebuilt, etc, with more bodies buried and more ritual practice imply larger, longer-lived, more established families with more pride in their ancestry.

I would imagine houses built up by generation, Larger taller homes for larger older families. Natural status would arise for the Oldest houses longest standing families, people would turn naturally to the old wise of the village, older families have older stories that change overtime and become legend.

I find it marvellous that modern notions of heirarchy and status have no basis here, and how sad those who benefitted from this existence may view modern society and how beseiged and impoverished even the richest most technology advanced and urbane folk are as a result of the current state, like so many bacteria polluting a petri dish before its lemming like demise.

He didn't really answer the question about vacant lots properly: she is asking if the lot was CLEARED OF STRUCTURES or if the existing structure was allowed to fall apart, in situ, as it were. "Vacant" means empty, not merely unused.

What is this new dating technique called?

Ian Hodder isn't a particularly dynamic or compelling speaker. At times, he can be downright tedious. This lecture, however is an exception. Probably his best on KZfaq.

But where does Kevin Lee fit into this?

Nice to hear Doug Baird getting a mention, dug for him at Pinabasi, great site, shame the audience was for the most part intellectually less adept

Los descendientes de Adán y Eva.......y sus colonias de entrenamiento espiritual!!!!tal como lo describió el libro de urantia.....el segundo jardín del Eden 😱😱😱😱😱😵😵

These analyses suggest to me an essentially egalitarian society based on ancestor clans, where each clan had “ancestor houses” for the burials of its members and differences in food preferences and rituals. Perhaps the “ancestors” were the founding members/families of the settlement, similar to the underlying principles of the different patrician gens in ancient Rome, but without their differences in social status. More spread-out, seemingly random, burials might be associated with the relative “latecomers” in the community. Perhaps burial under the floors of houses were the community norm, but only clan members were buried in clan houses? Perhaps each clan had responsibility for controlling the behavior of its members and the non-lethal, but stunning and painful, blows to the head were punishments and warnings for violent and other anti-social behaviors.

Any DNA results from these ancient skeletal remains?

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Why doesn't he bring up the possibility of Functional Similarity as the explanation for the buildings with similar motifs that are spread out between the neighborhoods? Just as our neighborhoods will each have a school, a fire dept., a police station, a church or mosque or temple, a library, etc., so their neighborhoods may have had repeated functions occurring in neighborhood groupings..Oh, the beams and brick-filled arrow motif? Perhaps they'd say: "That's the pattern for the priests of the Moon--of course there is one in each precinct!" If they constantly replastered walls and skulls and painted designs, icons and scenes everywhere, my guess is that certain of the images now being interpreted as mere pattern types are actually recording events, elements in cycles/phases, or divination results. His elder-privilege thesis seems suspect: Who is to say that the obese figurines are necessarily depictive of observed humans and not simply stylized humans used as totems?...In the same way, all the 4 armed figurines of Hindustani temples do not actually depict 4 armed people that someone saw, but rather portray mythical icons/totems/idols. I don't think it's Proto-Indoeuropean because all the classic motifs of PI are missing: where is the trident, the wheel/chariot, the HORSE, the clear reference to a storm/lightning sky god as central among a pantheon, a pantheon period...all of these markers are missing. Finally, is there any evidence of Catal-Höyuk being not only a continuous mini-urbanicity but also a ceremonial/festival/seasonal/defense-based settlement surrounded by a tribe or confederation of tribes whose families dwelt in temporary structures rather than a year round polis of houses? The observation of no obvious genetic links grouping the skeletons, the lack of hierarchy, the lack of next-door fields may suggest a type of ceremonial, occasional or seasonal locus point...or maybe that hunch is bogus.

*Four separate speeches* before the lecture even began. Was that really necessary?

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52:10 Kinship neighborhoods you insane person. Look at how rural eastern turkey currently organizes itself

Maybe they were head-butting in imitation of the local animals. That would be a believable decision-making device.

too many archeological scientists spoil the broth

10 minutes for introductions?

Somebody get homeboy back on the mic

The hypothesis of the 'farming out' of children is problematic to me (Pilloud and Larsen, 1:04:00). It would be more reasonable to suggest that several areas on the site had more capacity, skill and knowledge to deal with the burial of bodies perhaps with a caretaker of sorts who may have lived at these more ritually inclined houses.

When, if ever OI is going to fix the audio system. Use a second mic for goodness sake.

The Ark of covenant is in turkey believe it or not.

The first ten minutes is worthless introductions and a complete waste of time.

Oh nice, censored!

Some people make the most needlessly pedantic comments on lectures like these. I mean this is irreplicable content about the ins and outs of a neolithic settlement from one of archeology's best, who has a pleasant english accent to boot. and some peasants are really out here saying "mm bit too monotonous for my liking". WOT. These clowns are lucky to not have to read it in book form...

Try the I-Ching to understand the houses / burials. And the knocks on the heads comes from theyre worship of vultures, which you never mentioned, they played dead to get anointed in a way by the vultures. I could go on and on with my own research, but 25 years for this? If you need someone more psychedelic (you do) to put things together, consider me.

12 min. of slapping each other on the back before the boring droning stuttering lecture.

this is embarrassing. 25 years for finding out that it was a settlement with people behaving like people in a settlement. a well deserved downvote for stealing my time.

when after more than 15 minutes there is still zero information conveyed, I downvote (and hope for the audience that the lecture was free)