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This book tackles the topic of religion, a broad subject exciting renewed interest across the social and historical sciences. The volume is tightly focused on the early farming village of Çatalhöyük, which has generated much interest both within and outside of archaeology, especially for its contributions to the understanding of early religion. The volume discusses contemporary themes such as materiality, animism, object vitality, and material dimensions of spirituality while at the same time exploring broad evolutionary changes in the ways in which religion has influenced society. The volume results from a unique collaboration between an archaeological team and a range of specialists in ritual and religion.

Neolithic period --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Prehistoric religion --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities

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"This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the role of spirituality and religious ritual in the emergence of complex societies. Involving an eminent group of natural scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and theologians, this volume examines Catalhoyuk as a case study. A nine-thousand-year old town in central Turkey, Catalhoyuk was first excavated in the 1960s and has since become integral to understanding the symbolic and ritual worlds of the early farmers and village-dwellers in the Middle East. It is thus an ideal location for exploring theories about the role of religion in early settled life. This book provides a unique overview of current debates concerning religion and its historical variations. Through exploration of themes including the integration of the spiritual and the material, the role of belief in religion, the cognitive bases for religion, and religion's social roles, this book situates the results from Catalhoyuk within a broader understanding of the Neolithic in the Middle East"--Provided by publisher.

Neolithic period --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric religion --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Konya İli (Turkey) --- Konya, Turkey (Province) --- Karaman İli (Turkey) --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Konya İli (Turkey) --- Çatal Mound (Turkey). --- Social Sciences --- Archeology --- Catal Mound (Turkey) --- Konya Ili (Turkey)

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Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Neolithic period --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Konya İli (Turkey) --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Konya, Turkey (Province) --- Karaman İli (Turkey) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Konya İli (Turkey) --- Çatal Mound (Turkey). --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Néolithique --- Antiquités --- Çatal Höyük (Turquie ; site archéologique)

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This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of René Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking theory and data in exciting new ways.

Violence --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Prehistoric religion --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Girard, René, --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Antiquities