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Settlement change on the western Konya Plain: refining Neolithic and Chalcolithic chronologies at Canhasan, Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2020

Andrew Fairbairn Open the ORCID record for Andrew Fairbairn [Opens in a new window] ,
Piotr Jacobsson ,
Douglas Baird ,
Geraldine Jacobsen  and
Elizabeth Stroud
Andrew Fairbairn*
Affiliation:
School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia
Piotr Jacobsson
Affiliation:
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow, UK
Douglas Baird
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK
Geraldine Jacobsen
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, Australia
Elizabeth Stroud
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK
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*Author for correspondence: ✉ a.fairbairn@uq.edu.au
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Abstract

The Konya Plain in western Turkey hosted some of the earliest known farming communities beyond the Fertile Crescent. While robust radiocarbon chronologies have elucidated the development of local Neolithic settlement patterns, particularly for Çatalhöyük, the history of occupation at Canhasan sites III and I to the south-east is less clear. Here, the authors present new radiocarbon dates for these sites, demonstrating that these settlements align closely with the occupation sequence to the north. Aceramic Neolithic occupation at Canhasan III further emphasises Çatalhöyük East's isolation for most of the Ceramic Neolithic, while Canhasan I was reoccupied during a phase of dispersed settlement.

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AnatoliaKonya PlainNeolithicChalcolithicsettlement history
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 94 , Issue 374 , April 2020 , pp. 342 - 360
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2020

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