I was sad / disappointed / angry to read that…

I was sad / disappointed / angry to read that the social order of the Catalhuyuk in southern Turkey in 7400-6000 B.C.E. buried their dead under their houses and then filled the houses with dirt and built new ones on top, layer after layer. There was nothing between the homes in this village, not even the streets. The homes built so high people would walk on rooftops to enter the home. The idea was to keep social and gender equality of these the hunting and gathering communities as the did not have dictators, kings, queens, aristocrats, chiefs, or bureaucrats. Men and women could commonly wear many hats and do many things despite gender. Social equality is not what made me sad at all, in fact this is delightful to hear of the social justice brought on even back then. What made me sad was the idea of dead bodies in a home, the smell of them, the living on top of them, and just the idea that people lived on graveyards for several thousand people, all within a small geographic area grossed me out. 

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