In 5600, the Mediterranean flooded into the Black Sea lake with so much force, it drove the many peoples around it far away. Some carried civilization to Sumeria and Egypt, others built the world's largest buildings along their path to modern-day Paris. Come face the starvation, theft and wars these people encountered.
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Another Hittite Article
- I have that article
I really enjoyed reading on it, it also had a website for the research on the acheological site too. :)
- I, for one,
am not surprised!
and we know what those menfolk were wanting............
to be left alone long enough to watch sports.
heheheh
- Oh, and Cornellia.......
It has been scientifically proven that the women got all those cavities because the menfolk brought them chocolates. :-)
- Very interesting, Apil
I wonder, how many similarites between the Hittites and other peoples of similar region existed in equality of the sexes? Actually, I suppose equality is the wrong word there. Similar status then. Either way, very interesting and thank you for posting it for us!
Created by: * Apiladey ApilSin, subeditdate
How were women treated by the Hittites relative to men?
The standings of men and women in ancient Catal Hoyuk were pretty much equal, according to an article in the January/04 issue of Scientific American, ("Women and Men at Catalhoyuk" by Ian Hodder). Women seemed to do most of the cooking (though not entirely). The dead were buried under platforms, and newborns were almost always buried close to the oven, which does sort of scantily support this idea. Because obsidian for making tools was usually stored under the oven, it may have been women who flaked and knapped the tools. Women seemed to do the growing and harvesting, while men were concerned with the animals. Women tended to have more cavities, but the wear on their teeth was the same. Because of close studies on this wear, they even say both sexes shared the same quality of cuts of meat. The women were fatter for their height, and this is shown not only by the skeletal finds, but by the figurines found in the town. When someone of high status was buried in a pit, they frequently stopped using it. Pits stopped being used as frequently after a man as after a woman. Because they had equal amounts of carbon in their lungs from the oven-smoke, they seem to have spent equal amounts of time indoors. A clay statuette of a heavy-set woman on a seat flanked by leopards was, at first, thought to represent a "mother-goddess", but now is thought to represent more of a symbolic importance of women. At one point in the article, Mr. Hodder states, Both men and women could carry out a series of roles and enjoy a range of positions, from making tools to grinding grain and baking to headiing a household.
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