Social differentiation in Çayönü and Abu Hureyra through burial customs and skeletal biology

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Erdem, Deniz

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This thesis aims to investigate the social structure of Neolithic Period. To do this, both physical anthropological and archaeological data are used, and it is sought after whether burial customs and skeleton biology can be a parameter to understand social organization of a concerned area in a given time period. For this thesis the data comes from Abu Hureyra and Çayönü. Quantified data of burial types and grave goods are used in order to create descriptive statistical graphics. Then, correspondence analysis is employed to detect statistical significance in data sets, if exists. Anthropological data is stemmed from previous researchers. On the other hand, they were still used to investigate sex and age distributions with the same tools employed before. As a final study two settlements are compared within and with each other to chase the clues for social differentiation.

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General Social Sciences.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16243

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D. Erdem, “Social differentiation in Çayönü and Abu Hureyra through burial customs and skeletal biology,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.