Situated on the most convenient natural route between central Anatolia and the Marmara Basin - and on to the Balkans- and the existence of fertile plains, Eskisehir region played an important role in the prehistory encouraging dense settlement. Surface collections at Orman Fidanligi, literally the Forest Nursery, showed a new pottery type and salvage excavations from 1992 through 1994 yielded evidence to fill the gaps in the Early Middle and Late Chalcolithic periods of inland northwestern Anatolia and introduced the characteristics of the hitherto unknown Porsuk culture to the literature. The results also contributed greatly to correlating the Balkan-Anatolian prehistoric sequences and to interpreting the emergence of the Vinca culture in the heartland of the Balkans. The finds are supplemented with the surface finds from Pelitler near Aksehir-Konya to facilitate comparison and chronology.
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229 pp, numerous b/w plates, figures, drawings and a few colour plates, hb, articles in English.
