Finds 1298

Main Information

Finds ID	1298
Site	Knossos
Area	ID 578 settlement
Research event
Finds type	small finds
Small finds category	tool
Small finds type	Blade Chisel
Botany species
Animal remains species
Animal remains completeness	None
Animal remains part
Lithics technology
Lithics industry
Lithics cores and preparation
Lithics retouched tools
Lithics unretouched tools
Lithics raw material
Obsidian	None
Obsidian amount	None
Pottery form
Pottery detail
Pottery decoration
Pottery type	None
Amount
Material	flint obsidian quartz radiolarite
Confidence	None
Comment	Tools made of obsidian or flint are very rare. Two prismatic blades were found. They indicate trade with finished products, maybe from the Peloponnese. Pièces esquillées, which were used as chisels, occur often.

Bibliography

Reference	J. Conolly, The Knapped Stone Technology of the First Occupants at Knossos, 2008, Oxford P. Tomkins, Communality and Competition: the Social Life of Food and Containers at Aceramic and Early Neolithic Knossos, Crete, 2007, Oxford Alram-Stern, Eva, Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie,Forschungsbericht 1977-2009. Das neolithische und vorpalastzeitliche Kreta, None, None

Interpretations related to these Finds

Interpretation	ID 67