Finds 614
Main Information
| Finds ID | 614 |
| Site |
Cayönü |
| Area |
ID 173 settlement |
| Research event | excavation: research The Cayönü Excavations 1964 - 1991 |
| Finds type | lithics |
| Small finds category | None |
| Small finds type | |
| Botany species | |
| Animal remains species | |
| Animal remains completeness | None |
| Animal remains part | |
| Lithics technology |
Pressure technique |
| Lithics industry |
Blade industry Flake industry |
| Lithics cores and preparation |
Naviform core |
| Lithics retouched tools |
Projectile point Retouched blade Retouched flake |
| 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 | 5 |
| Comment | Caneva defines the lithic features of this stage as "... fossiles directeur of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period, blade industry with an intensive use of obsidian, Byblos points, and Cayönü double-backed blades among the retouched artifacts and the use of bipolar naviform cores. Pressure flaking technique in retouch continued to be used in the Cobble Paved Building Subphase and was not different from the Channeled Building Subphase, but this technique disappeared after the Cobble Paved Building Subphase - at the beginning of the 8th millennium cal.BC. The dominant tool set of this stage started to form in the Cobble Paved Building Subphase and became highly standardized in the Cell Building Subphase when reserve stocks of flint and obsidian were kept in the cell buildings. Even though the ratio between flint and obsidian does not change, flake/blade ratio has reversed in favour of blades. Among the closed courtyards objects like (...) flakes of flint and obsidian have been discarded randomly. In th houses (...) stocks of raw materials such as flint and obsidian, were found mainly in the basement (cell). |
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