© Peter Watson 2017 As male figurines are replaced by female ones, and the bucrania of wild animals give way to narrative wall paintings, the settlement also seems to concentrate less on specific elaborated houses than on mobile, locally produced art and stamp seals. Masculinity was connected to material remains from hunting, and this emphasis decreased as time went on. We can see a ‘prehistoric feminizing wave’. Çatalhöyük was a more atomized society than Göbekli. There was now less interest in interring animals and less grouping around central, ceremonial buildings. The link to the past was no longer the same as it was. There was an increase in domestic production. There is no evidence of anything more ‘transcendental’ than houses, ancestors and spirits. Houses were transgenerational, with evidence of long-term occupation – 80 years – and sequences of up to 500 years. Deliberate burning coincided with decline in average occupation from 110 years to 35-25 years. Floor plans show houses more diversified, with more rooms. There was an increase in female imaging and figurines and more domestic production. In painting, hunting loses its authority. Wild animals were represented out of proportion to their presence. Hunting lost its transcendental authority within the household. There is articulation of female importance at higher (later) levels. Some households were more independent of the collective. Elaborate houses were the domain of distinguished ‘elders’. This goes together with accumulation of figurines, and the need to memorialise specific people. Social stratification took place. In one case a woman was found holding a repeatedly-plastered skull. Something special? Somebody special? Heads were separated from bodies, which suggests that the head had agency, was seen as different from the body, a ‘transcending container’ where knowledge about the house was stored. In art, heads are more determined, bodies more generic. It seems unlikely that Çatalhöyük people failed to associate birth (at least of birds and sheep) and germination with spring and with wetness (of rain and floods). There were clean and dirty areas of the house. And an association of burials with platforms and northern areas of the house. There is some evidence that a focus on the past and the future decreased over time.