ABSTRACT
The transition between Pre-Pottery Neolithic and Pottery Neolithic in Anatolia, a span of time straddling the turn of the eighth and seventh millennia BC, is curiously indistinct. This adoption of a Neolithic lifestyle in disparate areas was gradual, and people must always be aware of the timelag between, the establishment of Pre-Pottery settlements in central Anatolia about 8500 BC and the onset of early Pottery communities in western Anatolia around 6500 BC. Across the Amanus Mountains, the long sequence at Yumuk Tepe, near Mersin, in the broad fertile plain of Cilicia, is the chronological cornerstone for the Anatolian Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods of Anatolia. Projectile points are also distinct types, but only during the first half of the early Pottery Neolithic, up to the appearance of red-slipped ceramics of the Late Neolithic, when they disappear from the greater part of Anatolia to replace sling stones as the weapon of choice.
