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Çatal Hüyük West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

James Mellaart
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To the west of Çatal Hüyük and directly across the old river bed lies the second mound, occupied after the desertion of the neolithic site, perhaps from c. 5600 B.C. Roughly circular in size, with a diameter of c. 400 m., it still rises to a height of 7·5 m. above the surrounding fields. A modern road and two of the canals which now take the place of the old river, cut into its sides, but like its sister site, it is not under cultivation.

This mound, the successor of the neolithic city, is strewn with painted pottery of the Early Chalcolithic period, some of which was published before. Its range of occupation would seem to be almost entirely of this period, but it is possible that Late Neolithic levels exist further down in the mound. Some surface sherds even suggest a possible occupation in what D. H. French has called “Middle Chalcolithic” at Can Hasan, some fifty miles to the south-east, but situated in the same plain of Konya.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 15 , December 1965 , pp. 135 - 156
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1965

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References

1 AS. XI, 1961, pp. 177–184Google Scholar.

2 AS. XII, 1962, p. 34Google Scholar; XIII, 1963, p. 37.

3 AS. XII, 1962, p. 44Google Scholar, Fig. 2.

4 AS. XI, 1961, p. 178Google Scholar and J. Garstang, Prehistoric Mersin, Figs. 34: 23; 53: 7; 56: 27.

5 See note 1.

6 Painted ware: AS. XII, 1962, p. 32Google Scholar, Figs. 7–9. Incised ware: AS. XII, 1962, p. 32Google Scholar; Fig. 5: 13; Fig. 9: 2–4; pl. Ib, c.

7 More than half the pottery is painted.

8 See note 6.

9 Diagonal checkerboard: AS. XII, 1962Google Scholar, Fig. 6: 1, XIII, 1963, Figs. 6: 12; 7: 18. Row of loops: AS. XIII, 1963, Fig. 5: 15Google Scholar.

10 The typical carinated bowls are missing at Can Hasan, the fine incised ware at Çatal West.

11 AS. XIII, 1963Google Scholar, Fig. 8 and p. 37.

12 See note 4.

13 All C–14 dates recalculated with new half life of 5730 years. Radiocarbon, November, 1964, University of Pennsylvania date list VII.

14 Radiocarbon V, 1963, University of Pennsylvania date list VI, p. 83.

15 AS. XIII, 1963, p. 37Google Scholar.

16 Radiocarbon, IV, 1961, Groningen date list V, and Nov. 1964, University of Pennsylvania date list VII.

17 Radiocarbon, V, 1963, p. 83Google Scholar, and de Contenson, H. in BASOR, December 1963.Google Scholar

18 AS. XII, 1962Google Scholar, Fig. 9: 3.