Finds 1692

Main Information
Finds ID 1692
Site Mersin-Yumuktepe
Area ID 679 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
Lithics industry Blade industry
Flake industry
Lithics cores and preparation Core fragment
Lithics retouched tools Circular scraper
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 increase of knapped flint, decrease of obsidian (maybe due to reduction of obsidian distribution network) obsidian: sporadically used for specialized artifacts (bladelets, flakes, waste; end scraper with regular, rounded front edge, almost no pointed bladelets); flint: mostly local coarse-grained flint for cores and thick flakes used for on-site débitage production, blade fragments of beige flint (not local) found, most had glossed edges; reduction strategy designed for production of expedient tools;
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