ABSTRACT

Until very recently, the occupation at Catalhoyuk East was portrayed as relatively homogeneous and unchanging. The results from the excavations of the upper strata at Catalhoyuk carried out in the Team Poznan (TP) Area between 2001 and 2008 have revealed a new picture of the Neolithic community at Catalhoyuk. The radical changes in the Late Neolithic in the settlement layout and house architecture appear to indicate the demise of the previously predominant social order and the beginning of the new one. It has been argued that the Late Neolithic marks an emergence of domestic mode of production and consumption around the increasingly independent household as the dominant mode of social organization. The Late Neolithic from the TP Area sees the abandonment of the practice of using white marls to demarcate burials, such as those under the northern floor platforms of classical Catalhoyuk houses.