Contemporary pottery by women in Anatolia

From prehistoric times to the present day, women's ongoing production of pottery almost unchanged, it's consist of the production of pots rooted from food culture, exchange of these containers for the supplies like grain etc. to meet the daily needs, and contribution to the household economy by putting them on the market. The most comprehensive research on the production of pottery in Anatolia made by Professor Güngör Güner in the 1970s. However, there is no current research that covers Anatolia as whole with the status of the production centers from that day until today. The purpose of this study, taking the research that conducted on the subject previously as a reference point to identify centers of production in this century, update the status of tools and equipment production that used in as well as the updating the information of identified centers and documenting them. To investigate this a valuable production that made in Anatolia an individual project prepared by us and applied to, Dokuz Eylul University, the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit (BAP). A team was established with the acceptation of the project, by referencing the researches on the subject, 3 years in field research are made. In the study, interviews with related parties were documented by audio recordings, with all information to process, video footages and photos are presented in this study. As result of field research of all geographic regions covering the Anatolia, it's found that with changing and emerging technologies of the containers made of clay replaced by cheaper materials like plastic, steel, etc. and especially after 1960 the use of different materials expand rapidly with the beginning of the 1990s widespread of these materials led to an end in many production centers. For the revival of women's pottery production which composing the culture of their society by symbolizing traditions; with help in every stage of production, material and moral support as well as organizing the festival, fair, etc... by establishing teams with especially with the Ministry of Culture, municipalities and the university and with result of making enough identification we thought that will survive and transferred from one generation to another.