1. What was the most interesting about Çatalhöyük recreation?
- I think Hunting is interesting because it was done for fun not their main job anymore, and probably a seasonal thing since they were in a city.
2. Building upon what you know about how people lived during the Neolithic era, describe what a day living in Çatalhöyük may have been like for a farmer.
- Wake up in the dark, as they did not have many windows.
- Even though they had poop baskets, they dumped them on middens not using it for fertilizers.
- Carrying Farming tools, made of bones.
- Farming in the morning.
- Return home for a long lunch break in the hottest, middle part of the day.
- Farming in the evening.
- Return home at dark for dinner and recreation.
3. What were their working conditions, living situation, food security, and tool usage like?
1. What was the most interesting about Çatalhöyük recreation?
I think Hunting is interesting because it was done for fun through initiation rituals and not their main job anymore, and probably a seasonal thing since they were in a city, also to get their protein.
2. Building upon what you know about how people lived during the Neolithic era, describe what a day living in Çatalhöyük may have been like for a farmer.
Wake up in the dark, as they did not have many windows.
Even though they had poop baskets which they likely dumped on to dung heaps on their way to work, since they did not using it for fertilizers.
So they likely left for work every morning with a poop basket in one hand and their farming tool, made of bones, in the other.
Farming in the morning.
Return home for a long lunch break in the hottest, middle part of the day.
Farming in the evening.
Return home at dark for dinner and recreation.
3. What were their working conditions, living situation, food security, and tool usage like?
Working Conditions: Usually, they would work in their own houses unless it was a big thing like farming.
Living Situations: They had no doors or windows, only an opening on the roof, and their hygiene was probably bad compared to modern standards, as their dung heaps and the animals pens were filled with trash and poop, which let to infections.
Food Security: They grew barley and wheat, and for their meats, they ate wild bulls, deer, and boar.
Tool Usage: They used obsidian, ground stone, bones, and clay to make pottery, farm tools, knives, and querns for grinding grain.
