Abstract

The ceramics collected from the recent surveys which have been carried out Inland Mid-west Anatolia made an important contribution to revealing certain aspects of the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic cultures of the area. In this connection, the findings from the Eyice Mound, Bektaş Mound, Çalca Asarın Tepe, Menteş Mound, Pani Mound, district of Afyonkarahisar deserves a special attention. It is on the natural communication route heading towards Uşak, Denizli and Kütahya. The mounds yielded not only the typical painted pottery of the Burdur District to the south, but also the purplish red or brown painted pottery groups of the Aslanapa Culture distributed in the northern part of Afyon and the entire Uşak, Denizli and Kütahya province. These findings demonstrate us that the typical characteristics of the Aslanapa Culture spread as far south and east as Afyonkarahisar.