Finds 607
Main Information
| Finds ID | 607 |
| Site |
Cayönü |
| Area |
ID 193 settlement |
| Research event | excavation: research The Cayönü Excavations 1964 - 1991 |
| Finds type | small finds |
| Small finds category | tool |
| Small finds type |
Burnisher Disc Grinding stone Grindstone Other Unknown Vessel |
| 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 |
bone clay stone |
| Confidence | 5 |
| Comment | In the closed courtyards, broken tools, [and] remnants of bone tools (...) were found. There is no evidence for the production of personal ornaments or ornamental elements. Objects like stone balls, broken handstones, (...), and used glossy pieces have been discarded randomly. It is suggested that closed courtyards served for keeping animals, butcherng, or other acivities concerning only animal products, such as working bones and leather. A similar pattern was also observed during the late cell buildings (c3) phase, but, in respect to artifacts, the late cell courtyards are rather poor compared with the abundance and variety of objects and raw materials within the houses. This points to the fact that production, as in the Grill Building Subphase, moved into the houses agaion. A great number of large tools used for grinding, pounding, and cutting, and stocks of raw materials such as bone, Flint, and obsidian, were found mainly in the basement (cells). Objects of daily life, such as small objects and tools, were usually found on the upper fioors. Limited productions, such as the small malachite-working area next to building CF, took place immediately in front of the houses. The amount of grain and various plant remains within the houses shows that parts of the houses were also used as larders. Compared with earlier periods, in the Cell Building Subphase tempered clay was more used (...) in the production of various portable objects such as coarse vessles, plates, (...), small balls, [and] flat discs (...). During the burying of the cobble paved buildings, ground stone objects (...) were mainly left in the buildings, but all the "personal" items were removed before the buildings were burned down and filled with their burnt rubble. In the three-roomed BM2b Building phase (...), the oldests cult object of Cayönü, a red painted ring-based shallow offering vessel, which is made of heavily calcareous unfired clay, was found fallen upside down on the floor of the central room. Accordig to Y. Dede, who restored the vessel, it fell from somewhere high. This is possibly an offering of a cult item to the abandoned cult building, in other words a part of the ceremony of "burying" the building. (! as the excavators alloted the clay vessles, plates and the here described offering vessle to small finds, and separates them from socalled "true pottery", this description follows his system !) |
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