Site of a number of tells in the Konya plain of southern Turkey. Can Hasan III was an Aceramic Neolithic settlement, perhaps of the 7th millennium be. It had at least seven structural phases of small rectangular buildings abutting on to each other. These were built mainly of slab pisé coated with mud plaster and sometimes painted red. The villagers were agriculturalists, growing einkom and emmer wheats, lentil and vetch in the earlier phases, hexapioid bread and club wheats in the later phases. Cattle, sheep, goat and pig were all eaten, but it is not clear whether these were domesticated. The main Can Hasan mound was occupied in the late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. Several phases of occupation are documented, but the best explored is phase 2B which was destroyed by fire, carbon-dated to <4900 be. This phase was characterized by rectangular mud-brick buildings, fine painted wares mainly in red on cream, and the use of copper. In the succeeding 2A phase polychrome wares were made. The site was subsequently abandoned but reoccupied in the Late Chalcolithic, late in the 5th millennium be.
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