Pigment use in Neolithic Çatalhöyük

Authors

Eline M.J. Schotsmans, University of WollongongFollow
Gesualdo Busacca
Lucy Bennison-Chapman
Ashley Lingle
Marco Milella
Belinda Tibbetts
Christina Tsoraki
Milena Vasic
Rena Veropoulidou

RIS ID

143690

Publication Details

Schotsmans, E., Busacca, G., Bennison-Chapman, L., Lingle, A., Milella, M., Tibbetts, B., Tsoraki, C., Vasic, M. & Veropoulidou, R. (2020). Pigment use in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Near Eastern Archaeology, 83 (3), 156-167.

Abstract

From the Middle Paleolithic onwards, pigments have been used variably in different social and ritual activities as well as in the expression of symbolism through material culture (e.g., Brooks et al. 2018; D’Errico 2008). In the Levant and Anatolia, symbolic practices with pigments became increasingly common in the epipaleolithic and pre-pottery Neolithic periods (e.g., Bocquentin and Garrard 2016; Goring-Morris, Hovers, and Belfer-Cohen 2009; Richter et al. 2019; Baird 2012; Baird et al. 2013).