© Peter Watson 2017 At Çatalhöyük there is much evidence of dyadic oppositions and we often see pairing: two cranes, two skulls, two leopards. Dogs are treated in a special way (used in special deposits but not consumed). Domestic animals (sheep etc) are treated differently from wild. Domesticated animals are buried with humans at Çatalhöyük. Why were cattle domesticated so late at Çatalhöyük and elsewhere? (Sheep and goats were domesticated one or two millennia before.) Larger houses were better at protecting the dead. And later houses were larger and more quickly (and less exactly) replaced.  The new orthodoxy now is that the early Neolithic was the most significant turning point in all of human history. It was accompanied – and marked – by the virtual disappearance of image-making in western Europe versus its proliferation in the Levant at the same time. People moved from caves to houses. But what we now have is a radical new perspective. The old view of a great mother goddess, symbolizing fertility, nurturing and abundance, is replaced by male and phallic imagery, linked to wild animals. We also see a much stronger sense of human agency, and an increased awareness of human agency. An individualized sense of self emerges, identified by its difference from others. This all amounts, say the archaeologists, to an altering of human consciousness. In the Middle East Neolithic and at Çatalhöyük in particular the representation of the human form reaches a new centrality, less reciprocal and more dominant in the world. Dead ancestors are central to this idea, as is the development of the house at Çatalhöyük. History houses are described as the greatest advance – long lineages of houses rebuilt in the same place and in which human burials, body parts and animal parts are amassed and handed down. Other factors include the importance of continuity, the development of social status, as a massive increase in the number of things become available. There is a concern with specificity, and the importance of hard, piercing body parts. 