1. Settlement change on the western Konya Plain: refining Neolithic and Chalcolithic chronologies at Canhasan, Turkey
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Geraldine Jacobsen, Douglas Baird, Piotr Jacobsson, Elizabeth Stroud, and Andrew Fairbairn
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010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,060102 archaeology ,Dispersed settlement ,General Arts and Humanities ,06 humanities and the arts ,Chalcolithic ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,law.invention ,Geography ,law ,Human settlement ,Settlement history ,0601 history and archaeology ,Radiocarbon dating ,Settlement (litigation) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - 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 Catalhoyuk, 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 Catalhoyuk East's isolation for most of the Ceramic Neolithic, while Canhasan I was reoccupied during a phase of dispersed settlement.
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- 2020
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