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Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau, II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

James Mellaart
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The end of the Çatal Hüyük West culture is shrouded in mystery. Both Çatal and Kara Hüyük South were apparently deserted and never reoccupied and it is only at Can Hasan Hüyük east of Karaman that later deposits have been recognised overlying remains of the early Chalcolithic culture. Elsewhere the evidence lies buried in the cores of the numerous city mounds of the Early Bronze Age period. Late Chalcolithic remains are fairly common in the Konya Plain, but they were in nearly every case found on sites where no earlier or later remains were encountered. This might suggest a shift in the settlement pattern of the plain after the end of the Early Chalcolithic period (see map, Fig. 1).

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 13 , December 1963 , pp. 199 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1963

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References

1 Prehistoric Mersin, Figs. 91–4.

2 This pottery is too coarse to merit illustration.

3 See AS. IV, 1954, pp. 194–8Google Scholar, Figs. 163–181.

4 Prehistoric Mersin, Fig. 118.

5 Özgüc, T. in Anatolia, I, 1956, p. 69 and Plate XVII (bottom row)Google Scholar.

6 V. Türk Tarih Kongresi (Ankara, 1960), Pls. XLVI–LGoogle Scholar.

7 AS. IV, 1954, Fig. 164Google Scholar.