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Excavations at Hacılar, second Preliminary Report, 1958

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

James Mellaart
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The second season at Hacılar lasted from the middle of August till the middle of September. The writer was in charge, assisted for part of the time by Mrs. Mellaart, and by the Director in an advisory capacity. Miss Elizabeth Beazley, Mr. David Stronach and Mr. David French dealt most efficiently with the architecture, photography and field supervision and pottery respectively. The Turkish Government was again represented by Bay Osman Aksoy. The expedition is much indebted to the Vali of Burdur, Bay Turhan Kapanlı, especially for his generous loan of a bulldozer to assist in re-levelling the site after excavation; also to the Gendarme Commander of Burdur and the Maarif Müdürü, for facilitating our relations with the peasant owners of the site, and for permission to use the large school at Hacılar as expedition headquarters.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 9 , December 1959 , pp. 51 - 65
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1959

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References

1 Including a head of the type illustrated in AS. VIII, 1958, p. 148, Fig. 11Google Scholar, from Level VI, suggesting that our attribution of heads of this type to Level II (p. 148) is wrong. Similar heads appear to be Neolithic, not Early Chalcolithic. The specimen from Ayio Gala was found with pottery, not unlike our Hacılar VI wares.

2 See “Summary of Archaeological Research in Turkey in 1958”, above, p. 33.

3 AS. IV, 1954, p. 206, 209–210Google Scholar, Figs. 440–445, 447–449.

4 AS. VIII, 1958, p. 141Google Scholar.

5 Wace-Thompson, Prehistoric Thessaly, Fig. 38.

6 AS. VIII, 1958, p. 138fGoogle Scholar.

7 See note 9.

8 e.g. at Güllücek, Büyük: Koşay, H. and Akok, M., Büyük Güllücek Kazısı, Ankara, 1957, Pl. XVIII, 2, XIX, XX, 3Google Scholar; Alaca Hüyük, Yazir Hüyük, near Sivrihisar (both unpublished), Kumtepe (unpublished), Besikatepe, , PZ. XXIII, Fig. 14: 3Google Scholar; Gala, Ayio, PPS. XXII, Fig. 14Google Scholar: 10 and Pl. XXII, 2–5; Tigani, ibid., Fig. 4, F.38; Fig. 5, F.58; Fig. 6, F.74; Fig. 7, F.74; Kalymnos, ibid., Pl. XVIII, 6, 7; and Komotini (unpublished material in the Salonica Museum).