Ideology in the upper Tigris Valleys hunter gatherer Neolithic communities in 10.000 bc

Many innovations had emerged in the Neolithic period, a period which is seen as an important milestone and regarded as a revolution. Recent studies show that these innovations were the results of long-term changes. With the emergence of year-round settlements, innovations in architecture, technology and livelihood model as well as changes regarding to social life had appeared. In this study, archaeological material from the settlements of Körtik Tepe, Gusir Höyük, Çayönü, Hasankeyf Höyük, Hallan Çemi and Demirköy, which appeared in the Upper Tigris Valley in the 10th millennium BC, was compared with archaeological material belonging to the contemporary communities in the Fertile Crescent. Thus, we aimed to examined the effects of social organizations, which has been dated to 10th millennium BC in the Upper Tigris Valley, to archaeological material with the context of ideology.