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20472 [Sp. 489, midden], 356 pieces of obsidian (Nenezi Dağ – 89 [25%], East Göllü Dağ 267 [75%]). 0.37 pieces of obsidian per litre.
Nenezi Dağ – 3 pressure blades (one lateral series), 2 rejuvenation pieces off face of pressure-blade core (one a piece esquillée), 3 exhausted cores (one possible pressure), 5 bladelets, 11 thinning flakes, 61 non-cortical flakes, 2 part-cortical flakes, 2 blade-like flakes,
East Göllü Dag – 245 thinning flakes / small non-cortical flakes (mainly Kaletepe-Kömürcü), 1 small biface preform (3.38cm long), 15 bladelets / blade-like flakes (one part-cortical), 2 pressure blades, 1 exhausted bladelet core, 1 irregular percussion blade, 1 chunk, 1 retouched flake from face of blade / blade-like flake core.
Flint – 4 pieces, including a very nice perforator made by retouching into a point the distal segment of a tan chert pressure-blade (3.57cm long), a fragment of a tan chert prismatic blade, a bladelet of dark red chert and a part-cortical chunk/flake core of the same raw material.
Synopsis – the aim of this preliminary study was to compare and contrast the contents of this midden with the stratigraphically later material from midden 20449 (see above).
Differences
• Interesting increase in the relative proportion of Nenezi Dağ obsidian (from 15-25%) which is counter to the usual temporal trend (earlier = less).
• Dominance of thinning flakes in the Kaletepe-Kömürcü (EGD) material – this assemblage is comprised primarily of knapping debris relating to biface manufacture (it includes one small preform), whereas the 20449 material is dominated by bladelets and associated waste material – might thus view the midden accumulation of 20472 as relating to the cleaning out of a building in its very earliest stages of use (as these are the periods of a building’s history that we mainly associate with projectile manufacture).
Similarities
• General techno-typological links between the two assemblages, fitting into the broader 4040.G pattern.
• The material is similarly fresh and un-fragmented, suggesting once more a relatively rapid deposition, as opposed to the dumping of old/disturbed material.
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