Can Hasan I
Can Hasan 1 · Canhasan I
Chalcolithic (c.5500–4800 BCE)·Ubaid-related Central Anatolian Chalcolithic·🇹🇷 Karaman Province, Konya Plain, Turkey
About
About Can Hasan I
Middle Chalcolithic tell (200 m diameter, 8 m high) on the Konya Plain’s southern apron, excavated by David French. Sequence Chalcolithic Ubaid-related painted ware (c.5000–4800 BCE) with multi-room mudbrick houses, copper slag and Ubaid-like black-on-buff pottery, followed by Late Chalcolithic. Contrasts with the Neolithic tells Can Hasan II/III, illustrating plain settlement shift after Çatalhöyük. Key to Ubaid diffusion into Anatolia.
Why it mattersKey Karaman Province, Konya Plain sequence for Chalcolithic (c.5500–4800 BCE); chalcolithic agricultural village with early copper working.
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Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Chronology of Can Hasan I 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.5500 BCE
- Period
- Chalcolithic (c.5500–4800 BCE)
- Culture
- Ubaid-related Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
- Builders
- Ubaid-related Central Anatolian Chalcolithic communities
- Purpose
- Chalcolithic agricultural village with early copper working
- Rediscovered
- 20th century survey
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
1960
Foundation/earliest horizon
1980
Major excavations
2020
Conservation/monitoring
On the ground
Structures & features
37.1400° N · 33.1400° E · 1020 m · 2 mapped features
Ubaid-related houses
structureMulti-room mudbrick with plastered floors and copper slag
37.1402° N · 33.1403° EPainted ware horizon
depositUbaid black-on-buff pottery production debris
37.1398° N · 33.1397° E