The famous statue, the Seated Woman of Catalhoyuk has been on my mind because of its relative anatomical accuracy in portraying a person with large amounts of fat. I'm under the impression that nobody was actually like this in early neolithic settlements. Am I overestimating what it takes to extrapolate what an obese person would look like without ever having seen one, or is there more to this?
You may want to try crossposting on r/AskAnthropology to maximize your chance of an answer. While it's not impossible that you will get answers here, as there may be a few people kicking around who have also studied prehistoric topics in the course of our historical studies, Çatalhöyük is indeed prehistoric in the literal, predates-writing sense.
