Continuity and Change in Central Anatolia: An Overview of the Fine Wares from the Konya Plain Survey Project

This preliminary overview of the fine wares found in a surveyed area of the Konya plain, around the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, proclaims the vitality of the area in pre-Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic/Early Roman periods, one well represented by a heterogeneous group of fragmented ceramics. These results offer also clear evidence that this part of the southern Anatolian plateau was already settled in this period and shared in some of the wider trends in tableware tastes with other Hellenistic and Late Hellenistic-Roman sites in Asia Minor.