Finds 1961
Main Information
| Finds ID | 1961 |
| Site |
Pınarbaşı B |
| Area |
ID 807 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 Microlithic industry |
| Lithics cores and preparation |
Bidirectional core Naviform core |
| Lithics retouched tools | |
| Lithics unretouched tools |
Bladelet |
| Lithics raw material |
Chert Flint Obsidian |
| Obsidian | Yes |
| Obsidian amount | 80 |
| Pottery form | |
| Pottery detail | |
| Pottery decoration | |
| Pottery type | None |
| Amount | |
| Material | |
| Confidence | None |
| Comment | Obsidian dominates (ca 80%), much lesser chert/flint. The cores were brought to the settlement partially reduced, but intensive further reduction on site; typical: bidirectional cores, many irregular and much reduced --> mainly bladelets produced in reduction sequence, but final removals were typically flakes; also 2 naviform cores; bigger bladelets were turned into elongated microliths, using the micro-burin technique --> lots of micro-burins. Microliths were the predominant formal tool (ca. 10%) and were very variable, but typical were elongated scalene triangles. Probably lots of different tools used microlith inserts, and it is presumed that many of these tools were parts of hunting armatures (frequent large mammal-bones), but also other uses are likely. Flint knapping took place on site --> flint microliths, flake products and -tools (more common than microliths) --> reduction strategies; flint came to this site less reduced than the obsidian (secondary flakes as debitage and tools suggest it); high proportions of obsidian indicate a long-distance procurement of it on a large scale in Central Anatolia. continuation of earlier traditions and also rapid adoption and adaptation of imported technology (from south east); very large pestles were common, but mortars were less common --> maybe pestles were used with bedrock mortars, located on a shelf of limestone in the south of the 9th millennium mound; also smaller handstones were used for grinding; there also were large querns (e.g. a triangular one in B 3); there also were basalt "griddles"; some of these tools were likely used for ochre pressing, and they could have been used on plaster, meat, plant food processing (almond, terebinth nut) and other materials; The materials for the tools came from the Karadağ, and some small greenstone axes were imported in unworked form from ca. 80 km to the south-west (where the Çarşamba River met the Konya Plain), the axes were probably valued and highly curated items. Also, decorated shaft straighteners were found, as well as bone points and other tools. The shaft straighteners were sub-rectangular basalt and schist stones of modest size (2,5-5,5 cm long), with a polished central groove --> probably much use and wear and tear from prolonged curation. The surface color was altered due to some treatment, and decorated with a variety of geometric incisions (e.g. parallel lines,Vs, Xs, dots) --> probably arrow shaft straighteners and used for working of sinew --> parts of hunting kits, closely asociated with the individual identities of hunters; similar items were found on slightly earlier and contemporary PPNA to PPNB sites on the Euphrates. |
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