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Warpy

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3. They also left layer upon layer of wall painting
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 06:15 PM
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since they liked to decorate their spaces as much as most of us do, and "wall painter" seems to be one of the reespected occupations there.

Since many of the paintings were illustrative (the other major type was geometric), what they showed us was a remarkably egalitarian society, with the necessary jobs as well as leisure pursuits including blood sports practiced equally by men and women. Thr one exception to this was motherhood, that burden being shared among women.

It must have been a remarkably stable society. It wasn't Utopia, those don't exist, but it does seem to have been a very well run city. It also wasn't unique, it's just one of the better excavated sites in eastern Anatolia.

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