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Çatalhöyük and the Neolithic Revolution

You're Dead to Me

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Is That a Bench?

Some of these benches had animal horns coming out of them, so you really couldn't sit on them at all. They were probably there for adornment, elaboration in the house, and probably ritual purposes. And then they loked like, if there were benches, they might be punishment benchesassuing this world wasn't quite as peaceful and benevolent as we're now imagining. The naughty step r thieves and adulterers a give them the horns. But are they functional furniture, or are they decorative? It theyr wear patterns where people's bottoms have sat on them. They probaby sitting on them.

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