6,500 – 5,500 BC Late Neolithic Age: The hayday for the Mother Goddess figure who, depicted as a symbol of fertility, becomes the main deity in Anatolia. Special areas of homes became shrines and were decorated with wall paintings and bull head emblems. Pottery and necklaces of various stones were handcrafted – the earliest know surviving textile was found during this period in Catalhoyuk.

Terracotta statuette of the Mother Goddess from Catalhoyuk. Seated on a throne flanked by two sacred animals she represented a woman in child birth.