Scott Donald Haddow

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• PhD
• Assistant professor at University of Copenhagen

At Neolithic Çatalhöyük (7100–6000 cal BCE), where evidence of monumental architecture and large communal spaces and structures is lacking, the house served as the focal point not only for domestic activities such as food processing and storage, but also for cyclical and periodic ritual activity including layered wall paintings, animal installation...

Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. However, to properly integrate these data within archaeological narratives, new methodological and theoretical tools are required. Effort must be put in...

Recent bioarchaeological analyses at the Neolithic Anatolian site of Çatalhöyük have revealed considerable variation in skeletal completeness, preservation, articulation, and flexion among burials. Furthermore, organic remains from burnt contexts demonstrate that many bodies were tightly bound and wrapped using cordage, matting, textile, and animal...

An overview of funerary practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük from the final round of publications of the Çatalhöyük Research Project (1993-2017).

The conference proceedings contain 75 scholarly contributions to the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). The main themes of the congress were sustainability and inclusion in line with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals defined by the UN. The choice of themes was inspired by challenges for contemporary...

The conference proceedings contain 75 scholarly contributions to the 13th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). The main themes of the congress were sustainability and inclusion in line with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals defined by the UN. The choice of themes was inspired by challenges for contemporary...

Selective funerary practices can inform about social relationships in prehistoric societies but are often difficult to discern. Here we present evidence for an age-specific practice at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, dating to the 7th millennium BCE. Among ancient DNA libraries produced from 362 petrous bone samples, those of subadult...

The emergence of Neolithic villages in Western Anatolia, particularly between 7000-6000 BCE, has caused debates regarding the driving forces behind this transition. While earlier hypotheses suggested demic diffusion from the Fertile Crescent, recent studies suggest more complex population dynamics. We address this question by combining material cul...

We explore the ways in which residents of Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Anatolia differentiated themselves as well as the ways in which they did not. We integrate numerous data sets in order to assess patterns of inequality (A) across buildings with contemporaneous occupations, (B) between buildings that did or did not burn at abandonment, and (C) throug...

Western Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. Using 30 new palaeogenomes from Anatolia c.8000-6000 BCE we describe the early Holocene genetic landscape of Western Anatolia, suggesting population continuity since the late Upper Pleistocene. Our findings indicate that the Neoli...

Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. However, to properly integrate these data within archaeological narratives, new methodological and theoretical tools are required. Effort must be put in...

Arguments have long suggested that the advent of early farming in the Near East and Anatolia was linked to a ‘Mother Goddess’ cult. However, evidence for a dominant female role in these societies has been scarce. We studied social organisation, mobility patterns and gendered practices in Neolithic Southwest Asia using 131 paleogenomes from Çatalhöy...

Archaeologists have adopted the Gini coefficient to evaluate unequal accumulations of material, supporting narratives modelled on modern inequality discourse. Proxies are defined for wealth and the household, to render 21st century-style economic tensions perceptible in the past. This ‘property paradigm’ treats material culture as a generic rather...

Around 10,000 y ago in southwest Asia, the cessation of a mobile lifestyle and the emer-gence of the first village communities during the Neolithic marked a fundamental change in human history. The first communities were small (tens to hundreds of individuals) but remained semisedentary. So-called megasites appeared soon after, occupied by thousand...

The cultural use of pigments in human societies is associated with ritual activities and the creation of social memory. Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey, 7100–5950 cal BC) provides a unique case study for the exploration of links between pigments in burials, demographic data and colourants in contemporary architectural contexts. This study presents the...

The use of wood, dung and other biomass fuels can be traced back to early prehistory. While the study of prehistoric fuel use and its environmental impacts is well established, there has been little investigation of the health impacts this would have had, particularly in the Neolithic period, when people went from living in relatively small groups,...

This chapter addresses measures of health (palaeopathology), well-being and lifestyle (way of life) that provide insights into the social context of the Neolithic population sample excavated at Çatalhöyük. The term ‘well-being’ is defined here as the ability to attain the full genetic potential for growth and development in the face of stress, the...

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic,1 mainly because material culture studies provide limited insight into this issue. However, because Neolithic Anatolian communities often buried their dead beneath domestic buildings,2 household composition and...

The Neolithic East Mound at Çatalhöyük, dating to 7100–5950 cal BCE (Bayliss et al. 2015), in central Anatolia is well known as a large, early agricultural village. Like other Neolithic sites in this region, the site had distinct mortuary practices, which at Çatalhöyük are dominated by primary interments beneath house floors, accounting for 83 perc...

Çatalhöyük is most well-known for its Neolithic and Chalcolithic occupations, but the site also served as a cemetery during the Bronze Age, as well as the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods. During the Neolithic, Çatalhöyük was both a settlement and a cemetery, with the dead buried under the floors of houses. In later periods, however, the site a...

Çatalhöyük is most well known for its Neolithic settlement, but the site also served as a cemetery during the Bronze Age, as well as the Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic periods. During the Neolithic, Çatalhöyük is distinctive as a place for both the living and the dead, but thereafter the site becomes more closely associated with the dead. This chapt...

Significance Bioarchaeological investigation of human remains from Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey, contributes to a growing body of data documenting population dynamics, health, and lifestyle of early farmers in Holocene settings in the Near East and globally. The extensive archaeological context of foodways, material culture, housing, environment, e...

The early village at Çatalhöyük (7100–6150 BC) provides important evidence for the Neolithic and Chalcolithic people of central Anatolia. This article reports on the use of lipid biomarker analysis to identify human coprolites from midden deposits, and microscopy to analyse these coprolites and soil samples from human burials. Whipworm (Trichuris t...

We explore inequality at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia in order to shed light not just on variations in wealth but also on other forms of potential social differentiation in this early farming settlement. We assess synchronic variation as well as potential changes through time in the levels or forms of social or economic inequality. In o...

Annual report on the activities of the Çatalhöyük Research Project Human Remains team during the 2017 excavation season. Contains a catalog of burials excavated in 2017 and a summary of research activities conducted during the season.

The retrieval and re-deposition of elements of the human skeleton, especially the skull (i.e., cranium and mandible), is a common feature of Neolithic Near Eastern funerary practices. A complicated sequence of subfloor inhumations involving both primary and secondary burial treatments at Çatalhöyük demonstrates the range of funerary practices encou...

Excavations conducted between 2007 and 2013 at the Ptolemaic-Roman cemetery site at Quesna, located in the western Delta of Egypt, have revealed the skeletal remains of 151 individuals. During these excavations, two individuals buried with above average stature and completely unfused epiphyses were discovered in separate burials. One individual was...

A report on the activities of the Ҫatalhöyük Research Project Human Remains team during the 2016 excavation season.

The vast majority of primary burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Central Anatolia, Turkey, 7100–6000 cal BC) are recovered from beneath house floors, with burials in external spaces extremely rare. Excavations at Çatalhöyük in 1998 brought to light a young adult male buried in a midden (a burial location observed so far for only 4 out of 440 individua...

During the Neolithic, mortuary practices in the Near East sometimes involved intramural burial and often some type of removal or caching of the bony elements of the head. Reports of defleshing are described in the literature, but there is little published evidence for other surface modifications of human remains. In his 1960s publications on the Ne...

The majority of burials at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (7400-6000 calBC) consist of intramural subfloor primary interments, most often underneath the northern and eastern platforms of the central room. Loose, disarticulated skeletal remains such as crania and other elements are often recovered from the grave fills of these burials, but it is often difficu...

Building a house that will be occupied for decades - often following its predecessor’s destruction - is a highly charged liminal moment that likely coincided with the foundation of a new or reconfigured household in need of establishing its social identity and standing. The practices associated with constructing a house at Neolithic Çatalhöyük thus...

Food has long served as a mechanism for identifying and reinforcing social structures, but while carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has provided important identity-based evidence of past diets, the cyclical and stable/fluid nature of food consumption practices across the life course has been relatively neglected. In this paper, the large human as...

Haddow, S. D. (2015) Peer Comment, Internet Archaeology, http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.39.5.com1

The bioarchaeological record of human remains viewed in the context of ecology, subsistence, and living circumstances provides a fundamental source for documenting and interpreting the impact of plant and animal domestication in the late Pleistocene and early to middle Holocene. For Western Asia, Çatalhöyük (7100–5950 cal BC) in central Anatolia, p...

Excavations at Catalhöyük have been ongoing for over 20 years and have involved multinational teams, a diverse range of archaeological specialists and a vast archive of records. The task of marshalling this data so that it can be useful not only at the post-excavation stage, but also while making decisions in the field, is challenging. Here, member...

This chapter presents the results of a collaborative spatiotemporal study of a burnt building at the site of Çatalhöyük, South Central Turkey. The chapter out- lines and showcases an experimental approach to the appending of stratigraphic temporal data onto existing spatial data as an unusual and innovative way to articulate space in time within th...

The project “3D-Digging at Çatalhöyük” started in 2009 as an on-site digital experiment to record every phase of an archaeological excavation in 3D, using different technologies such as laser scanning, computer vision, and photogrammetry. The end goal was to make the excavation process virtually reversible in a simulated environment from laptop com...

This paper presents the results of a spatiotemporal study of a burnt building at the site of Çatalhöyük, South Central Turkey. Burnt structures are interesting on the site because of the unusual pattern of deposition of material culture at the final point of closure, as well as the potential for extraordinary preservation of organic remains not usu...

Structure from Motion 3D modeling techniques are a useful tool for recording and interpreting burials.

Ismant el-Kharab (ancient Kellis) is an archaeological site in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, which dates from the late Ptolemaic to the late Roman period. Previous studies of skeletal material from Kellis and other oasis sites suggest that the ancient population of the Dakhleh Oasis was largely homogenous and inbred as a result of geographic isolation....

A programme of archaeological investigation took place on Fin Cop hillfort, in the Derbyshire Peak District, during the summers of 2009 and 2010. In total fifty test-pits and eight trenches were excavated, revealing evidence for a Mesolithic quarry site, and sporadic evidence for Neolithic and Beaker period activity. An assemblage of Late Bronze Ag...

Dental nonmetric traits were scored on eighty-nine deciduous teeth that were recovered from the ancient Mesopotamian site of Tell Leilan (mid-third millennium BC) in northeastern Syria. Notable features of the dentition include a mild form of shoveling on the maxillary incisors, presence of Carabelli's trait in 71% of maxillary second molars, and a...

Between 1979 and 1989 the skeletal remains of 21 adults and 38 children, yielding 317 permanent and 134 deciduous teeth, were recovered at Tell Leilan, Syria, the site of a major urban center during the emergence of complex state society in northern Mesopotamia in the mid-third millennium BC. Tooth crown dimensions (faciolingual and mesiodistal dia...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, Dept. of Anthropology, 2001.