1,000,000 – 15,000 BC Paleolithic Age: The earliest humans were present in Yarimburgaz (Istanbul), Karain and Beldibi caves (Antalya). Primitive man fashioned stone into tools and weapons. For 4,000 years multicolored paintings, sketches, scenes on cave walls together with the decorated tools and Mother Goddess figurines, which symbolize the first examples of art, demonstrate the development of man’s intellectual life. During this period ornaments were crafted from fish bones, shells, bones and teeth of various animals.

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