**   Started in Asia and Anatolia 8000 B.C  and  finished 5000 B.C

**       People left  the caves , rocks andstarted to built structures in open fields with stones, trees and limes.

**          Living sources of people got varied.

**         Wild cow , goat, sheep , pork were tamed

**         Dog was tamed so the hunting became easier

**    They learned to produce clay pots

**   From the skin of tamed animals people started to produce  clothes and wowens

**         The ones living near lake or swamp learned  to make straw baskets

**       Colourfull stones , copper, animal teeths and sea shells were used to make ornaments

**     Religious beliefs occured as a result of natural effects such as thunder, sun, wave etc.

**     Bull figures  and woman figures were used to  symbolyze the  masculinity and fertiliy

**       Breast , hips stomach in women statues were excessively depicted.

**         Dead bodies burried and the life after death was  started to be believed

**        When they burry a dead they also put personel belongings such as ornaments, weapons , pots

Neolithic age in Turkey

Most important places having the remnants and the marks from neolithic period in Turkey are ;

·         Ergani ( cayonu) oldest village settlement

·         Konya Catalhoyuk terracotta pots found

·         Hacilar ( burdur )

·         Karaman-canhasan

·         Seydisehir-suberde

·         Mersin-yumuktepe

·         Tarsus-gozlukule

·         Akasaray-asiklihoyuk

·         Nigde-kosk

·         Konya –erbaba

·         Elazig-keban

·         Hatay –tel cubeyde , vadi el hamam

·         Islahiye-sakcagozu