Finds 1654
Main Information
| Finds ID | 1654 |
| Site |
Mersin-Yumuktepe |
| Area |
ID 659 settlement |
| Research event | |
| Finds type | lithics |
| Small finds category | None |
| Small finds type | |
| Botany species | |
| Animal remains species | |
| Animal remains completeness | None |
| Animal remains part | |
| Lithics technology |
Pressure technique |
| Lithics industry |
Blade industry Microlithic industry |
| Lithics cores and preparation | |
| Lithics retouched tools |
Drill End-scraper on blade End-scraper on flake Projectile point |
| Lithics unretouched tools |
Bladelet |
| Lithics raw material |
Flint Obsidian |
| Obsidian | Yes |
| Obsidian amount | None |
| Pottery form | |
| Pottery detail | |
| Pottery decoration | |
| Pottery type | None |
| Amount | |
| Material |
flint obsidian |
| Confidence | None |
| Comment | almost only obsidian, mostly very regular bladelets obtained by means of a chipping strategy (usually pressure technique); cores and waste were rare and didn't belong to the bladelet bipolar reduction sequence --> material was mostly imported (from Göllüdag in the earliest part, from Nenezi in the later part of the Early Neolithic) in the form of semi-worked products and shaped into tools in situ; very few end-scrapers and elongated javelin points found; most typical retouched tool was the micro-perforator (often irregular, asymmetrical, curved tiny points on the tips of small blade fragments) which was, according to the traces on it, used on a asoft material as groovers rather than borers. tools were frequently used for plant and wood working (cutting, scraping); Flint: small to medium sized pebbles with a rolled cortical surface found in small quantities in the débitage (yellow flint with thin black inclusions or reddish brown flint, both local) --> flints were used in ad hoc débitage strategy to make expedient tools; a few diagnostic pieces of blade production were found on a beige-colored flint (fairly uniform blades: 11-16 mm, 3-4 mm thick, maximum of 50 mm long), some of the blades had two glossed edges; they were re-utilized intensively, had standardized shapes and no pertaining débitage remains--> beige flint was not readily available in the area, therefore imported as semi-finished tools |
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