3,000 – 2,000 BC Early Bronze Age: Anatolia enters the Bronze Age and reaches a high level of civilization. Bronze was used to make weapons, ornaments and utensils while copper, gold, silver and electron was worked to produce other products. The quality and quantity of the artifacts demonstrate that artestry and metal crafting were important occupations which were being used as a tool to reflect man’s beliefs and abstract concepts through his artistic ability.

This is also the period when the first urban centers emerged in Anatolia together with the new life style namely, urbanism. While the contemporary cultures in Mesopotamia and Egypt engaged in mass-production, Anatolia kept its original hand crafts and traditional production methods which have survived until today in various artistic forms.

Statuette of woman nursing a child, bronze, Horoztepe, end of the 3rd millenium BC.

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