Color photograph of archeological site with T-shaped stone pillars.

Domicide

At a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, archaeologists unearthed a complex of buildings that had been buried, intentionally and incrementally. What might have been the meaning of this strange variety of architectural death, in which the energy required to establish and maintain the structures was matched by the energy expended to entomb them?

At a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, archaeologists unearthed a complex of buildings that had been buried, intentionally. How might we understand such architectural graveyards?

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