Book contents
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- 1 Women in Caves
- 2 A Woman of Çatalhöyük
- 3 A Woman of Gozo
- Part II The Bronze Age
- Part III The Iron Age
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2 - A Woman of Çatalhöyük
from Part I - The Deep Past
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- 1 Women in Caves
- 2 A Woman of Çatalhöyük
- 3 A Woman of Gozo
- Part II The Bronze Age
- Part III The Iron Age
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Around eight or nine thousand years ago in southern Anatolia a young woman lived and died in the place now known as Çatalhöyük, southeast of the modern city of Konya. She was buried in a building, Building 17 of the South Area, Space 620, along with several other bodies, and found, with seventy-six other bodies across the site, by archaeologists in 2017 (Figure 2).1 Since we have no way of knowing her name, she is known simply as F.8018 Sk (21884). It is a specific yet also anonymous memorial to the lived life of a woman who was at the very least a daughter, a neighbour, and a friend.
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- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldFrom the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines, pp. 34 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023