The Construction of Community at Early Bronze Age Karataş‐Semayük, Southwestern Anatolia
Journal: American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Year: 2025

These results suggest that burial location was not strongly defined by biological kinship units or lineages. Rather, a negotiation of various social identities likely influenced the expression of group membership in mortuary practice. Additionally, Karataş-Semayük likely practiced a bilocal residence pattern with a virilocal bias. The significant incorporation of outside females in the local community and the lack of biologically constrained burial practice may have simultaneously contributed to