https://www.science.org/content/article/stone-age-farmers-households-passed-mother-daughter
“It’s a hint that their concept of what makes a family wasn’t limited to blood relatives. “The assumption was always that people buried in the same house were genetically related,” says Sabina Cveček, an anthropologist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the Austrian Academy of Sciences who was not part of the research team. “Family doesn’t seem to be genetically oriented … it’s so exciting to see an example in the past where you can belong to the same household but not share genetic ancestry.”
“A widespread system of fostering or adoption, for example, could be evidence that some form of egalitarianism prevailed at Çatalhöyük. “You’re giving out your children to other people all the time and sharing everything,” Hodder says. “It makes it very difficult for an individual biological family to build up resources.””
There are bucket loads of inference going on here, but doing detailed genetic testing of cemeteries does seem to show that the houses of this neolithic city were centred on the women. Importantly, women seemed to have more grave goods than men.
This is the paper https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr2915 (if people can access it). This related article is accessible: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.23.600259v1.full