Genetic analysis of 131 individuals shows same-house burials unrelated biologically overall. Household membership based on cultural or social criteria not family ties. Female genetic lineages more closely related within houses than male lineages. Female lines dominated household formation in 7th millennium BCE. Pattern indicates matrilocality at household level. Women buried with richer grave goods signaling higher status. No full matriarchate but women central to kinship. Dead buried under house floors atop ancestors' remains. Houses built atop predecessors creating vertical cultural continuity. Genetic continuity links East and West Mounds. Infant skeletons from West Mound match East Mound profiles. Petrous bone best for ancient DNA preservation here. Neolithic settlement sustained by agriculture and husbandry. Female figurines hinted at women's importance decades ago. Kinship patterns shifted later toward male roles in Europe.