There were major changes in Anatolia in the wake of the Aegean migrations, which took place at the end of he second millennium. This event brought- about the fall of the Hittite Empire and the first half of the 1st millennium B.C., late Hittites, Urartians and Phrygians, who had established kingdoms in different areas of […]
The Bronze period begins around 3000 in Anatolia, around 2500 in the Aegean and Crete, around 2000 in Europe. Bronze is obtained by mixing copper and tin (% 90 copper, % 10 tin). In this period apart from bronze tools other kinds such as copper, gold and electron, which is an alloy of natural gold […]
In this period, in addition to stone tools copper pieces also come into sight. The need to change valuable goods (ceramics, textile) for both raw and shaped mines helped the trade develop, and this brought the exchange between peoples and the preparation of inventory listings with the beginning of communication. Symbols, hieroglyphs, writing with pictures, […]
This period reveals a new step in the history of mankind with the development of the established and settled societies and production of food. Anatolia once again gives the most comprehensive sites in the world for this age with Cayonu. Hacilar, C/atalhoyuk and Kbs, khbyuk excavation sites.
The C/aybnii settlement which is not far from the […]
This period gives way to the most impressive development of the human kind New Stone Age. Middle Stone Age is a period of transition of the human from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age. Hunting and the collecting of plants continued to be the main supply of food, but the human began to store […]
Paleolithic Age, also known to be the old stone age, begins somewhere between 2 million years ago and ends 10.000 years before ourtime. This time period marks the beginning of the existence of the ancestors of man. The early man in the Paleolithic age did not know to farm and raise crops but lived on […]