The Southeastern Anatolia Region in Neolithic Period

In this thesis subject called "The Southeastern Anatolia Region in Neolithic Period", we will examine the centers in the Southeastern Anatolia Region as Neolithic Period with pots and Neolithic Period without pots. The Anatolia has been home to many civilizations and many nations in the course of the history. Many factors, such as its location, underground and aboveground sources, suitable geography and suitable climate, made the settling easy in Anatolia In the geography of Anatolia the most important region of the Neolithic Period is definitely the Southeastern Anatolia Region. The region called Fertile Crescent is the region on which people started to settle and found civilizations tens of thousands of years before our time. Therefore the Neolithic centers of the Southeastern Anatolia Region are very important. In this study we will try to examine the important Neolithic period settlements of Southeastern Anatolia Region which are located in the cities of Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Batman, Adıyaman, Siirt and mostly in Şanlıurfa. We will try to highlight to the period by means of the daily used materials, temple centers, architectural remaining, curved hand tools, animal and plant remaining, skeletons, sculptures, etc. which were obtained from these centers The period we will examine is the period about between 10.500 and 7000 BC. The Southeastern Anatolia Region, in which we can find all the features of the period, has provided very important materials to the sciences of the history and the archeology by the excavations and surface explorations. Some places, which were found in the area, were excavated; some were just superficially explored during the Saving Excavations of G.A.P Project and Ilısu Dam. The Neolithic Period is one of the important eras in which mankind showed development. For this reason, The Southeastern Anatolia Region is similarly a very important region in Anatolia. Key words: Southeastern Anatolia, Neolithic Period, pots