Finds 1962
Main Information
| Finds ID | 1962 |
| Site |
Pınarbaşı B |
| Area |
ID 807 settlement |
| Research event | |
| Finds type | small finds |
| Small finds category | tool |
| Small finds type |
Axe Grinding stone Mortar Other Pestle |
| 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 | |
| Pottery detail | |
| Pottery decoration | |
| Pottery type | None |
| Amount | |
| Material |
basalt bone green stone schist |
| Confidence | None |
| Comment | 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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