Abstract:
Appearance of the first permanent settlements and the domestication of plant and animals could be
dated to the Neolithic Era, between 10.200 – 6.200 BC. These significant developments are crucial which
changed the human’s way of life in many different aspects. Cappadocia region has an important place in the
Near Eastern Neolithic. This volcanic area contains many different obsidian sources. Obsidian is a volcanic
glass which was seen as perfect material for tool production because of its delicate nature and impressive
color. Cappadocian obsidians were exploited by both local Cappadocian and other Anatolian, Syrian
Levantine and Cypriot Neolithic sites that points out the inter-regional connections of Cappadocia region ten
thousand years ago.
Social perspectives on Neolithic way of life are restricted in an egalitarian view. Permanently settled
hunter-gatherer people exhibit an unstratified social strata. However recent views on Neolithic way of life
emphasize the existence of a structured social system. In this article two Cappadocian Pre-Pottery Neolithic
sites, AşıklıHöyük and Kömürcü-Kaletepe obsidian workshop were evaluated by a structured social view.