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Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

James Mellaart
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The purpose of this article is to describe here some of the material found during our survey of the Konya Plain in 1958. In two previous articles pottery of the 2nd millennium and the Iron Age found here have already been published. That of the Early Bronze Age, the most prosperous period in this area, will be described at a later date, and the present article will only describe the pottery of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, under the following headings:

  1. I. Neolithic cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau.

  2. II. The Early Chalcolithic in the Konya Plain.

  3. III. The Late Chalcolithic in the Konya Plain.

The importance of the Konya Plain in Anatolian prehistory is obvious. It is the largest single plain on the whole of the Anatolian Plateau with alluvial soil, and as such it is the granary of Turkey. No other region on the plateau shows such numbers of ancient mounds, or so many mounds of great size. The survey of this region, geographically as well as archaeologically a distinct unit, has at last linked the western plateau with Cilicia, and the results have shown that there is now a cultural continuum from the borders of Syria to the Aegean Sea since the Neolithic period.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 11 , December 1961 , pp. 159 - 184
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1961

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References

1 This survey was undertaken with the aid of a grant from the Central Research Fund of the University of London, to which we are greatly indebted.

2 Belleten, XXII, 1958, pp. 311–45Google Scholar, and Belleten, XIX, 1955, pp. 115–136Google Scholar.

3 Alan Hüyük was discovered by Mr. Alan Hall; Kızılkaya by Mr. David French in 1958.

4 Discovered by Ormerod, H. A., see BSA. XIX, 1912–1913, pp. 48–53Google Scholar; also AS. IV, 1954, pp. 180–4Google Scholar, Figs. 83–93. New finds were acquired in 1959 by the Archaeological Museum, Ankara (unpublished).

5 Çukurkent, and Hüyük, Beyşehir “C”, AS. IV, 1954, p. 184, Figs. 92–4Google Scholar. For Ilıcapınar see my article in Istanbuler Mitteilungen, 8, 1958, pp. 82–93Google Scholar.

6 cf. sherds from Mersin, . LAAA. XXV, 1938, Pl. XXXII, Nos. 33, 34Google Scholar.

7 AS. IX, 1959, pp. 62–5Google Scholar, Fig. 7.

8 Garstang, J., Prehistoric Mersin, Fig. 53: 7Google Scholar.

9 R. J. and Braidwood, L. S., Excavations in the plain of Antioch, I (Chicago, 1960), Figs. 26–9, especially Figs. 28 and 27: 44Google Scholar.

10 Belleten, XIX, 1955, Pl. IVGoogle Scholar; TAD. VIII, 2 (1958), Pl. XV, 2Google Scholar.

11 AUDTCD. V, 2 (1947), p. 228 f.Google Scholar, Figs. 2, 4–8.

12 See footnote 7.

13 See footnote 7; Fig. 7: 17–20.

14 AS. XI, 1961, p. 71Google Scholar.

15 Bostanci, E. in Anatolia, IV, 1959, pp. 132 ffGoogle Scholar. and Pl. I.

16 ibid., p. 146, Pl. IV. The identification is based on personal inspection of the material.

17 For references see article quoted in following footnote. Add: TAD. VIII, 2, 1958, Pl. XIIIGoogle Scholar (Niğde Museum).

18 Istanbuler Mitteilungen, 8, 1958, pp. 82–92Google Scholar.

19 Excavations in the plain of Antioch, I, Figs. 30, 374Google Scholar.

20 Bittel, K. in Belleten, XVII, 1953, p. 320Google Scholar, footnote (Yelbeyli).

21 Garstang, J., Prehistoric Mersin, esp. Figs. 34, 36, 52–3Google Scholar.

22 ibid., Fig. 34: 23.

23 ibid., Fig. 53: 7.

24 ibid., Fig. 56: 27.