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Excavations at Can Hasan, 1966: Sixth Preliminary Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

D. H. French
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The sixth season of excavations at Can Hasan took place between 28th August and 30th September. Additional work on storing and arranging the non-registered materials from the excavations continued until 12 th October. All materials other than the registered objects from the 1961 to the 1966 seasons are now stored in the depot at Can Hasan. These are the sherds, animal bones, heavy stone objects, the samples of stone, clay and other materials. They are stored by year and by category in locked storerooms in the dig house. In addition to the house bekçi there is now a full-time official bekçi for the Hüyük and for other hüyüks in the neighbourhood.

In the 1966 excavations Messrs. D. C. Biernoff, S. Payne and J. N. Postgate were field assistants; Mrs. Payne took charge of the work in the house, assisted by Mr. C. Slack and the Misses M. Bell, C. Prater, and T. Harrington-Smith. In addition Mrs. Payne had charge of the pottery; Mr. Payne of the obsidian, Miss Harrington-Smith of registration and Mr. Slack and Miss Bell of conservation and pottery mending. Bay Bedri Yalman from the Konya Museum represented the Turkish Government.

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Research Article
Information
Anatolian Studies , Volume 17 , December 1967 , pp. 165 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1967

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References

1 AS XIII (1963) 36 Google Scholar and Fig. 5: 15, 16.

2 AS XVI (1966) 116 Google Scholar.

3 This is, in fact, best shown in the west section.

4 AS XII (1962) 32 Google Scholar; AS XIII (1963) 34 Google Scholar; AS XV (1965) 90 Google Scholar; AS XVI (1966) 116 Google Scholar.

5 AS XVI (1966) 116 Google Scholar.

6 AS XIII (1963) 35 Google Scholar; AS XV (1965) 90 Google Scholar.

7 AS XVI (1966) 118 Google Scholar.

8 AS XV (1965) 136 Google Scholar.

9 AS XIII (1963) 36 Google Scholar; AS XV (1965) 90 Google Scholar.

10 This represents an absolute level and is approximately 0.50 m. above the present level of the plain on the east, and 0.50 m. below it on the west side of the mound.

11 The absolute dates are based on the following C-14 determinations which are calculated on the half-life of 5568 years. They are shown diagrammatically in the chart, p. 174. Mersin: W 617, 5995 ± 250; Can Hasan: P 789, 5030 ± 79; P 790, 4880 ± 78; P 791, 4805 ± 80; P 792, 4720 ± 76; P 793, 4304 ± 78 (The laboratory consider this sample undersized); P 794, 5083 ± 89; P 795, 4882 ± 78; Çatal: P 769, 5555 ± 93; P 770, 5962 ± 94; P 772, 5622 ± 91; P 774, 5581 ± 91; P 775, 6087 ± 96; P 776, 5690 ± 91; P 777, 5754 ± 91; P 778, 5588 ± 89; P 779, 6240 ± 99; P 781, 5574 ± 90; P 782, 6142 ± 98; P 796, 5571 ± 77; P 797, 5679 ± 90; Hacılar: P 313A, 5399 ± 85; P 314A, 5487 ± 115; P 315A, 4976 ± 95; P 316A, 5219 ± 131; BM 48, 5590 ± 180; BM 125, 5820 ± 180. These dates are in years B.C.

12 The introduction of patterned pottery is marked by an asterisk on the chart, p. 175.