Finds 1890

Main Information

Finds ID	1890
Site	Musular
Area	ID 787 undefined
Research event	excavation: research field walking survey: systematic trial trench Musular Excavation 1996 - 2004
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	Bidirectional core Naviform core
Lithics retouched tools	Burin End-scraper on flake Notch Retouched blade Retouched flake Splinter
Lithics unretouched tools	Blade
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	Chipped stone industry: primarily obsidian, rarely flint; 6 groups of obsidian: transparent (from Kayırlı and Kömürcü/Kaletepe on Göllüdağ), smoky grey, striped green-grey (from Nenezi Dağı), opaque grey-green, striped grey, black with smoky stripes. mostly naviform and bidirectional blade production (very few cores found, but more crescented blades, tablets, lateral blades, central blades, upsilon blades). The obsidian from Nenezi was used for large and thick blades, the Göllüdağ obsidian for smaller blades; Retouched tools: lots of scrapers and end-scrapers (mostly made on flakes, only 6 % on blades); also 19% retouched blades and 17% retouched flakes; 14 % projectiles (4-6 cm long, oval, pressure retouched, mostly unifacial, rarely bifacial); also splintered pieces (6%), borers (2%), burins (1%) and notched (1%); flint: only 20 pieces found, all yellowish fine-grained, good quality; almost all were retouched blades (one exception: a borer on a flake), some had silica sheen on the edges; In structure AC, unretouched tools were dominant (70 %). In structure AD, obsidian tools and wastes were found (mostly tiny flakes, less than 2 cm in size) no indication, that flint was worked in Musular --> probably brought here as finished tools;

Bibliography

Reference	Özdoğan, Mehmet, The Neolithic in Turkey. New Excavations & New Research. Central Turkey, None, None Kayacan, N.; Özbaşaran, M., The Choice of Obsidian and its Use at Musular, Central Anatolia, 2007, Antibes Özbaşaran, M. - Duru, G. - Kayacan, N. - Erdoğu, B. - Buitenhuis, H., , Musular. The 8th Millennium cal. BC Satellite Site of Aşıklı; Istanbul 2012, None, None Gratuze, B., The Chemical Analysis on Ten Artefacts from Musular (unpublished report), 2001, None, None Binder, Didier; Gratuze, Bernard; Mouralis, Damase; Balkan-Atlı, Nur, New Investigations of the Göllüdağ Obsidian Lava Flows System: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, 2011, Kayacan, N., Chipped Stone Industry of the Neolithic Site of Musular (Cappadocia): Preliminary Results; 2003, None, None Bellot-Gurlet, L., Trace Element Contents Determined by ICP-MS at Grenoble on Nine Artefacts from Musular (unpublished report), 2000, None, None

Interpretations related to these Finds

Interpretation	ID 101