Pursuklu Höyük
Pursuklu Höyük · Pursuklu Hoyuk · Pursuklu Mound
Pottery Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6200–5500 BCE)·Çatalhöyük–related Konya Plain Neolithic·🇹🇷 Konya Province, Çarşamba Delta, Turkey
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About Pursuklu Höyük
Low Konya Plain mound (150 m diameter, 6 m high) north of Çatalhöyük, part of the Çarşamba fan settlement cluster surveyed by James Mellaart and later Konya Plain Survey. Soundings show Pottery Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6200–5500 BCE) with Çatalhöyük-related painted pottery and small copper awls, documenting dispersal from the mega-site. Key for post-Çatalhöyük settlement reorganisation and the rise of small farming villages.
Why it mattersKey Konya Province, Çarşamba Delta sequence for Pottery Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6200–5500 BCE); agricultural hamlet on çarşamba fan after çatalhöyük.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology of Pursuklu Höyük relative to neighbouring centres?
Theories
- 01Regional centre hypothesis for Konya 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.6200 BCE
- Period
- Pottery Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.6200–5500 BCE)
- Culture
- Çatalhöyük–related Konya Plain Neolithic
- Builders
- Çatalhöyük–related Konya Plain Neolithic communities
- Purpose
- Agricultural hamlet on Çarşamba fan after Çatalhöyük
- Rediscovered
- 20th century survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
1960
Foundation/earliest horizon
1980
Major excavations
2020
Conservation/monitoring
On the ground
Structures & features
37.6200° N · 32.8500° E · 1015 m · 2 mapped features
Pottery Neolithic houses
structureAgglutinated mudbrick houses with painted floors
37.6202° N · 32.8503° ECopper workshop trace
workshopSmall copper awls and slag from early metallurgy
37.6198° N · 32.8497° E