Finds 1820

Main Information
Finds ID 1820
Site Tepecik-Çiftlik
Area ID 761 settlement
Research event
Finds type pottery
Small finds category None
Small finds type
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 Bowl
Pottery detail
Pottery decoration Black burnished
Impresso
Red slipped
Pottery type None
Amount
Material
Confidence None
Comment Pottery: In the earlier levels (up to 5), organic tempered paste with thin grassy inclusions in a ratio of 20 % was used. Also, cattle dung was used as temper in the earlier levels. The temper was chosen according to the finishing process --> e.g. thin vegetal material was used in well burnished wares. Technology and shaping: in the earliest levels, coiling, pinching and slab-building methods were used. imported pottery: black burnished ware without organic temper, a few had impresso-decoration (made by fingernails) similar to Mersin-Yumuktepe in the Early Neolithic. chevron decorations, vertically disposed stylized snakes, made by wiping-back; dark colored wares were fired under a reducing condition; in the upper fills of Level 5 were some red slipped shards (they firstly occur around 6300 BC here and needed a new way of controlled firing techniques); maybe these shards penetrated from there from upper levels.
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