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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Humanity has gone through bothintellectual and physical phases of tens of thousands of years, perhapsmillions of years, even if its age is not known exactly, and questioned itslife while trying to hold on to life. It realized production and abundance, includingits own formation, and evaluated them in a cult manner. It identified thefertility of the land with the woman who produced and gave birth like soil. Asa result, he worshiped the woman he made from the soil and made him a goddess.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The Neolithic Period, which is alsoconsidered as the first revolutionary process, is also a period in which peoplemet closely with terracotta, shaped it, put it into production and met its manyneeds. Another important feature of this period is that women stand out. Identifyingthe fertility of the woman with the fertility of the soil, along with that, theability to feed, making a terracotta pot, etc. In short, its productivity inevery aspect has raised its social position. Especially in this period, thedominant factor is now women, when the structure where the male is in the leadwith the hunting weapons in the hands of the men in the hunting period, and thefood production and production in the new period, the woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Pottery, which is the tradition andproduction of thousands of years of geography extending from Anatolia to AsiaMinor, offers its own descriptions in the Lakes Region, as in Anatolia,especially in prehistoric examples. In the production of terracotta, where air,water, soil and fire are integrated with man, the woman is both a producer anda model depicted with respect to meet her unique needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The Göller Region, which containsimportant Neolithic settlements such as Hacılar, Kuruçay, Bademağacı, Höyücekand right next to Çatalhöyük, generously exhibits this formation, which isuninterrupted in ethnographic and traditional dimensions, as well as verybeautiful examples of ceramic-woman relationship in archaeological scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:35.4pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Pottery culture, which started withwomen and whose operational style continues almost unchanged until today, hasbrought women to the forefront in contemporary ceramic art in the ongoingmodern process. In other words, today, the woman has not abandoned the materialthat she found close to her for thousands of years, but also embraced it andinterpreted it in the best way. Because, in the traditional context, most oftoday's contemporary ceramic artists are women, as is the pottery craft thatstill lives in Anatolia today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>