The Effort to Understand with Göbeklitepe Excavation the Social Structure and Religion in Southeastern Anatolia in the Early or the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period

Although the Neolithic period is explained with the “simple agricultural communities”, in previous years by excavating of Göbeklitepe, Çayönü, and Nevali Çori; the period got started to be defined as more complicated and developed phases because scientists found monumental buildings in Göbeklitepe which cause that agriculture system-settlement- religion-temples chronological order, was accepted by all scientist, turned into settlement- religion-temples-agricultural system array. Moreover, these structures that are totally different and specially built in nature which can be considered as temples, so archaeologist Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmidt assert that there was a faith system adopted by their people.

These cult structures involve T shape stones, which were claimed that they spread from Göbeklitepe to Nevali Çori, were called ritualistic process material in human form with animal and other seems meaningless symbols.