Can Hasan III
Can Hasan 3 · Canhasan III
Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE)·Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic·🇹🇷 Karaman Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey
About
About Can Hasan III
Small Neolithic mound (80 m diameter, 4 m high) on the Konya Plain, excavated by David French 1960s as the earliest of three Can Hasan tells. Stratified early Pottery Neolithic (c.6300–5800 BCE) with Halaf-related painted ware precursors, mudbrick agglutinated houses and intramural burials. Key for Konya Plain site-catchment and the Çatalhöyük–Can Hasan cultural succession. Later overlain by Chalcolithic pit graves.
Why it mattersKey Karaman Province, Central Anatolia sequence for Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE); farming hamlet on konya lacustrine plain.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology of Can Hasan III relative to neighbouring centres?
Theories
- 01Regional centre hypothesis for Karaman Province
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c.6300 BCE
- Period
- Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE)
- Culture
- Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic
- Builders
- Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic communities
- Purpose
- Farming hamlet on Konya lacustrine plain
- Rediscovered
- 20th century survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
1960
Foundation/earliest horizon
1980
Major excavations
2020
Conservation/monitoring
On the ground
Structures & features
37.1200° N · 33.1500° E · 1020 m · 2 mapped features
Agglutinated mudbrick houses
structureRectilinear houses with lime-plaster floors and intramural burials
37.1202° N · 33.1503° EPainted ware horizon
depositEarly Halaf-precursor painted pottery floor
37.1198° N · 33.1497° E