1. Catalhoyuk Meaning and Materiality in Tellworld’s First Cities

2. What Does It Mean: Fagan Human-Animal Duality (bulls, leopards, vultures) Gender Duality Birth and Death (axiality—directional symbolism—of wall paintings) Vultures and excarnation; shamanism, spiritual journeying. Ancestor worship Goddess Cult (“creation deity”)

3. What Does It Mean: Freewrite Contributions Individuality and social status (mirrors, ornaments, burials) Duality of Individual and Society Life and Death; vultures as violent agents of punishment, retribution Architecture: Multilayered Cosmos (Multiplicity) Gender Duality of Bull (masculine strength) and Leopard (female fertility) Status competition and Feasting (meat; grain) Headlessness and History Making

4. What Does It Mean: Ian Hodder Death; Violence; Sexuality Masculinity (feasting on wild cattle); No Goddesses (most figurines are of animals, not goddesses) Body manipulation and “piercing”  “History Houses” (memory as a social resource) Domestication of society, “the wild”, and death?

6. Showing intensified concern for “identities that don’t exist in nature”; Re-enacting, in ritual, the “mysteries of life and death”; Coping with a number of social, material, and symbolic “anxieties” that are part of settled village life. Tellworld Takeaways