I absolutely love the drivel that some archeologists put out when trying to explain a site using their own biases and stereotypes.
“The houses were adjacent and no house was superior to another, which can be indicated as a sign of their egalitarian structure of society.”
Remember this song, deriding the culture of sameness:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the caves
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there’s hunters and farmers,
And spell-binding shamans,
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Or “They did not have a leader and they lived in peace.”
Then why did they need doors and bury their neighbors under the floor?
I thought the Pope was the nominal leader of the Çatalhöyüks....at least the Roman Çatalhöyüks ;-)