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Excavations at Hacılar, Fourth Preliminary Report, 1960

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

James Mellaart
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The fourth and final season of excavations at Hacılar, carried out under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, lasted from 1st August till 7th September, 1960. In spite of a number of difficulties such as shortage of staff, workmen and time, a most successful season of work was accomplished.

The Assistant Director was in charge, ably assisted by Mrs. Mellaart (housekeeping, accounts, registry and photography), Miss Clare Goff (surveyor) and Mr. David French (pottery expert). Bay I. Ebcioğlu represented the Turkish Department of Antiquities. Once more the expedition was accommodated in the large school building. For this final season we are especially grateful to Francis Neilson, Esq., Mrs. I. Ainley, the British Academy, the Russell Trust and the Munroe Fund of Edinburgh University, without whose timely help this season might not have taken place.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 11 , December 1961 , pp. 39 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1961

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References

1 AS. X, 1960, p. 99, Figs. 5–6Google Scholar.

2 AS. VIII, 1958, p. 134Google Scholar, Pl. XXIXd.

3 AS. X, 1960, p. 86Google Scholar.

4 AS. VIII, 1958, Pl. XXXIIcGoogle Scholar (centre).

5 AS. VIII, 1958, Figs. 9–10Google Scholar; the heads in Fig. 11 can now finally be dated to the Late Neolithic period. Pl. XXXIIa, b. AS. X, 1960, Fig. 7Google Scholar.

6 AS. VIII, 1958, pp. 141–2, Fig. 7Google Scholar; AS. IX, 1959, pp. 62–4Google Scholar, Fig. 7.

7 Not less than two months were spent in sorting and mending the pottery found in 1960 and our professional potmender from the Ankara Museum, Fethi Ünlü, spent eighty-two days plastering !

8 See “Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau” in this number of AS., Figs. 2–6.

9 From Level IX (not yet illustrated).

10 See “Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau,” Fig. 2: 1–5, and LAAA. XXV, 1938, Pl. XXXII, 34Google Scholar (Mersin “Level of 3·10 m.”).

11 AS. VIII, 1958, Fig. 10Google Scholar: 6.

12 AS. VIII, 1958, Fig. 5Google Scholar: 16 (ram's head from Level II); Fig. 5: 24 (arms from Level III), and new examples.

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