Tag: Neolithic

Discover Turkey’s Neolithic past—a time when humans transitioned from a nomadic lifestyle to settled communities between roughly 10,000 and 6,500 BCE. The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, marks the beginning of agriculture, permanent villages, and early technological advancements.

Explore ancient settlements like Göbekli Tepe (c. 9600 BCE), Çatalhöyük (c. 7400–6200 BCE), and Hacılar (c. 7000 BCE), where early societies cultivated crops, domesticated animals, and built some of the world’s first religious and communal structures.

These groundbreaking archaeological sites reveal how this pivotal era shaped human civilization and laid the foundations for modern society.