Özet:

From the earliest ages to the present, economic, social, and political practices, as well as faith-related practices can be seen in the adventure of human life. Among these practices, death rituals are quite important. Masks are one of the ritual objects that are used in the death rituals organized in a certain order under the leadership of a selected individual. In this study, the functionality and different usage areas of the mask will be processed . Examples of these masks, which were used very frequently in the Neolithic period, the features of masks in today's indigenous tribes, the use of masks in Shamanism, the importance of the mask and its use in symbolic terms were tried to be explained by giving examples of masks seen as important in Anatolia and Near East Neolithic. In addition to masks made of stone and clay, some predictions about its use in rituals were presented by evaluating masked human/shaman motifs embroidered on pottery fragments in rock and cave paintings.

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