“Houses and human remains dating from its foundation some 9000 years ago are all very similar, suggesting equality. “Everyone was involved in small-scale farming or hunting,” says Ian Hodder, an anthropologist at Stanford University in California who has excavated at Çatalhöyük since 1993. No one owned the land, and produce was shared. The residents of this city are unlikely to have considered their daily chores “work”, says Hodder. “My view is that they would see it as just part of their daily activities, along with cooking, rituals and feasts that were such an important part of their lives.””
Hodder got all of that above from the fact that the ruins showed uniform dwellings? You don’t suppose Hodder’s socialism is projecting do you?
“The residents of this city are unlikely to have considered their daily chores “work”, says Hodder.”
I call BS. Even doing your own personal chores is work.