Space analyses over the restitutions of neolithic anatolian findspots

Neolithic period consists of a cultural pack that human civilization transformed in many ways. In literature, researches about Neolithic were mainly on agriculture. This much important period in human civilization must be studied by other disciplines as sociology, anthropology, art history, architecture, and others. For an architectural research, Neolithic must be divided into chapters as "agriculture", "ceramic", and as the focus "architecture". Agriculture emerged independently in several centers of the planet. Near East, where includes Anatolia, is the oldest and most systemically researched center also with the largest cultural impact area. Ceramic, or pottery in other word, evaluated in literature as not a simple invention but a symbolic tool for agricultural production. Therefore, Near East Neolithic is researched on two chapters as "Pre-Pottery Neolithic" and "Pottery Neolithic". And for architecture, there are two types in Neolithic; residences and public structures. Residences evolved from circular plantype to rectangular through the Neolithic. Public structures, on the other hand, were large in volume, constructed with special material and technique, and decorated with lots of symbolic features. Anatolian Neolithic is divided into two sub-zones as "Southeast Anatolia" and "Central Anatolia" in literature. Southeast Anatolia have common features with the traditional Fertile Crescent sub-zone of Near East, but Central Anatolia is almost unique in many ways and especially in architecture. Prominent Neolithic findspots in Anatolia are Göbeklitepe and Çayönü from Southeast Anatolia and Aşıklıhöyük and Çayönü from Central Anatolia. Göbeklitepe comes front with being the oldest known ceremonial architecture sample and displaying unexpected features for Neolithic culture, Çayönü with exhibiting all stages of plantype transformation in different layers, Aşıklıhöyük with being the oldest known sample for unique "honeycomb" architecture of Central Anatolia in both form and interlayer structural continuity, and Çatalhöyük with being a proto-city with all features rather than a simple agricultural village. Restitutions are remarkable within the researches about these prominent Neolithic Anatolian findspots. Restitution is, in short words, displaying a historical condition of structures via architectural expression techniques as drawings, models, or computer models with the help of scientific data from the researches. Much of the current restitutions prepared for these Anatolian findspots seem unparallel with the researches. They must be based heavily on personal predictions. Therefore, these restitutions must be criticized according to scientific data from these researches. In addition, restitutions more accurate with these researched must be prepared. For this purpose, in the first chapter literature summary, and the aim and hypothesis of the thesis were given. In second chapter, Neolithic period was analysed through agriculture, ceramic, and architecture. In third chapter, prominent Neolithic findspots in Anatolia were studied on architectural ground. In fourth chapter, existing restitutions of those findspots were criticized according to scientific data in hand as excavation reports. In fifth and final chapter, most accurate restitutions for those findspots matching with the scientific data were drawn.