#Neolithic #Catalhöyük (also Turkey) does indeed as well show a noteworthy complexity of #funerary ritual.

In this context in particularly interesting is the removal of #skulls from #burials, their #replastering and #circulation among the settlement.

This and the practice of '#secondary' (i.e. re-) burial seems a particular phenomenon of the later phases pf occupation at #Catalhöyük:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318042962_Skull_Retrieval_and_Secondary_Burial_Practices_in_the_Neolithic_Near_East_Recent_Insights_from_Catalhoyuk_Turkey