NEOLITHIC EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION IN ANATOLIA

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Understanding Neolithization

After a time period of over 1 million years, the migratory life based on hunting and gathering and the social organization which is the necessitated by this lifestyle began to change with the period we call the Neolithic Period.

TREVOR WATKINS

Anatolia 12,000 Years Ago Around twelve thousand years ago, people began to cultivate the plants, and that led in time to the emergence of domesticated forms.

HARALD HAUPTMANN

From Hunter-gatherers to Sedentary Communities The process of “Neolithic Formation”, represented by a fundamental change of the economic and social system, can be defined also as the first revolution in the history of mankind.

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Settled village life creates social problems that mobile huntergatherers do not have to deal with.

MIHRIBAN ÖZBAŞARAN

Aşıklı - The Earliest Sedentary Community of Central Anatolia The society of Aşıklı is the first who adopted settled life in Central Anatolia 10.000 years ago.

MARION CUTTING

Wall Paintings of Çatalhöyük Some of the wall paintings of Çatalhöyük were visible for only short periods of time before they were covered up by new plaster.

ANNELIESE PESCHLOW

Latmos The Anatolian Weather god had been worshipped here since the Neolithic period.