“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük

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2025-03-01

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Mazzucato, Camilla
Coscia, Michele
Küçükakdağ Doğu, Ayça
Haddow, Scott
Kılıç, Muhammed Sıddık
YÜNCÜ, EREN
Somel, Mehmet

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Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. However, to properly integrate these data within archaeological narratives, new methodological and theoretical tools are required. Effort must be put into finding new methods for weaving together different datasets where material culture and archaeogenomic data are both constitutive elements. This is true on a small scale, when we study relationships at the individual level, and at a larger scale when we deal with social and population dynamics. Specifically, in the study of kinship systems, it is essential to contextualize and make sense of biological relatedness through social relations, which, in archaeology, is achieved by using material culture as a proxy. In this paper, we propose a Network Science framework to integrate archaeogenomic data and material culture at an intra-site scale to study biological relatedness and social organization at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. Methodologically, we propose the use of network variance to investigate the association between biological relatedness and material culture within networks of houses. This approach allows us to observe how material culture similarity between buildings is associated with biological relationships between individuals and how biogenetic ties concentrate at specific localities on site.

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ADNA, Kinship, Neolithic, Network Science, Network variance, Southwest Asia, Çatalhöyük

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113949

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