Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials

Sacrificed teens discovered in ancient Mesopotamian burial site

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some Bronze Age societies shifted from egalitarianism to more rigid class structures. While more analysis is required, the implications may provide a more nuanced understanding of how social inequality codified among some of the earliest known civilizations. Regardless of the ultimate explanation, one thing appears clear about…

Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that radical inequality existed in burial practices among teenagers in Early Bronze Age Anatolia, predating the development of social hierarchies in the broader society. The finding challenges traditional understandings of how complex societies emerged.

Young Girls at the Center of Sacrifices and Hierarchies in Bronze Age Türkiye

On the highlands of Eastern Türkiye, archaeologists have uncovered a 4,800 -year -old necropolis in Başur Höyük which upsets certainties on the beginnings of complex companies. This site, long considered secondary compared to the major Mesopotamian cities, nevertheless reveals funeral practices as violent as sophisticated: collective tombs where adolescent girls, not related, were part of sacrifices in a structured ritual framework. Cambridge Ar…

On the eastern Turkey highlands, archaeologists have discovered in Başur Höyük a 4,800-year-old necropolis that upsets the certainty about the beginnings of complex societies. This site, long regarded as secondary to the large Mesopotamian cities, nevertheless reveals funeral practices as violent as they are sophisticated: collective graves in which teenagers, unrelated, were part of sacrifices in a structured ritual setting. The study, conducte…

Kocaeli University (KOU) Archaeometry Working Group has determined that the smelting and pouring of copper known as 5,000 years ago in Anatolia is 3,000 years earlier than known from the Gre Fylla Mound excavations

In the south-east Anatolian province of Siirt, a Bronze Age burial site provides new insights – and other mysteries. The post Mysterious victims from the Bronze Age were teenage girls first appeared on Nordisch.info.