G Pottery and Figures.

This page was begun 30 October 2003 ... rak.

The pottery seems to have been painted white, overlaid with a gray or black.  Here is an example, a jar, from the mid-6h millennium BC found in south central Anatolia (i.e. eastern Turkey).  Click on the picture to enlarge it: 

The anthropomorphic figurines were small devotional statues, usually of a voluptuous female, often of a pregnant female.  These are today believed to have been the Earth Mother responsible, in the eyes of the worshipers, for good crops.  Who else would the first farmers carry around with them as they spread the idea  and reality of farming throughout Europe!  Remember, this was several thousand years before the idea of the one God arose.  Here is a very primitive example, not so voluptuous and not pregnant:

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