EARLY BRONZE AGE-III POTTERY FROM BAHCEHISAR - THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRE-HITTITE SEQUENCE IN THE ESKISEHIR PLAIN, NORTHWESTERN ANATOLIA

Abstract

The late Early Bronze III pottery from Bahcehisar (Kandilli) presented here was collected during a surface survey of the region. This group not only supplies a missing link in the pottery sequence of the Eskisehir Plain, but also can be correlated with pottery from central Anatolia dating to the Transitional period. The relationship between the Bahcehisar material and the earlier EBA material from the plain is discussed, and a relative chronology established through correlations with the sequences at Troy, Beycesultan, Gordion-Polath, and Bogazkoy.