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Prehistoric Sites in the Göksu Valley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

D. H. French
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The valley of the river Göksu (the ancient Calycadnus) is not unique as a road through the Taurus mountains. At least one other route was used in antiquity; this was by the Cilician Gates (now the Gülek boğazı). The valley of the Göksu, however, provides the easiest means of access from the coast to the plateau and, conversely, the easiest descent from the plateau to the coast. At the upper end of the route lies the Konya Plain with the sites of Çatal, Can Hasan, Karahüyük-Konya and numerous mounds of the Hittite period; at the lower end, the Plain of Adana and the sites of Mersin and Tarsus.

The excavations at Çatal East and West, Can Hasan and Karahüyük-Konya promise to produce an almost complete pottery sequence for the Konya Plain. At certain points in this sequence influence from the south coast has been suggested. Traces of this contact, if it existed, between the two areas might possibily be found in the valley of the Göksu. With this possibility in mind, a re-examination of the Mut area was carried out and, at the same time, an attempt was made to verify the suggested relationship of the Göksu valley to the two “culture-areas”, the Konya Plain and the Plain of Adana, from the Neolithic period until the Iron Age.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 15 , December 1965 , pp. 177 - 201
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1965

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References

1 For the Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic period, see AS. XI (1961), 159 ffGoogle Scholar. For the Early/Middle Chalcolithic period, see AS. XIII (1963), 35Google Scholar. For the Late Chalcolithic period, see AS. XIII (1963), 203Google Scholar. For the Early Bronze 1–2 period, see AS. XIII (1963), 229 ffGoogle Scholar.

2 The first survey was made by Mr. James Mellaart in 1951.

3 Mellaart, , Belleten XXII (1958), 324Google Scholar.

4 Late Chalcolithic is abbreviated to L.Ch.; Early Bronze to E.B.; Middle Bronze to M.B.; Second Millennium to 2 Mill.; Late Bronze to L.B.; Iron Age to I.A.

5 The whereabouts of some published pieces has not yet been established.

6 Compare Relative Chronologies in Old World Archaeology (Chicago, 1954), 74 and 80Google Scholar with Beycesultan I (London, 1962), 112 f., 258 f. and 264Google Scholar.

7 AS. XIII (1963), 35 and Fig. 8Google Scholar.

8 See n. 3 above.

9 From the Mut area, i.e. sites nos. (1) Attepe (2) Çingantepe (4) Maltepe (5) Mut (6) Örentepe.