2018/ Kuzey Doğu Ege Buluntusu Taş Aletlerin İşlevlendirilmesi ve Etnografik Analoji (original) (raw)

2018, Anadolu Arkeolojisinde Taş Aletler: Teori, Metot, Pratik İstanbul: Ege Yayınları

Özdemir, A., & Bamyacı, A. O. (2018). Kuzey Doğu Ege Buluntusu Taş Aletleri̇n İşlevlendi̇ri̇lmesi̇ ve Etnografi̇k Analoji. In A. Baysal (Ed.), Anadolu Arkeolojisinde Taş Aletler: Teori, Metot, Pratik (pp. 304-323). İstanbul: Ege Yayınları. This paper introduces three different types of ground stone tools that were identified at several major Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in the North East Aegean during the last two decades. They were previously considered as relatively uncommon ground stone tools in the archaeological record of this region. The first type is a pan-shaped vessel with a large flat bottom, which could have been conveniently held with one hand. The pan-shaped vessel also has a four-footed variety. An analogy drawn with ar¬chaeological and ethnographic examples from North American Indian cultures may help to illustrate that these mundane stone vessels were used in tasks such as grinding edible or inedible substances. The second type is the grooved stone axe, which is a functionally efficient percussor with a beveled cutting edge opposite a rounded peen. The most charac¬teristic feature of this type of axe is the groove that encir¬cles the body close to its distal end, intended for hafting the tool onto a wooden handle in order to increase its effectiveness. According to analogy with North American Indian cultures, such grooved axes were not only used in ore extraction but also in various other tasks such as the removal of large flakes on large, thick nod¬ules of flint, chopping down trees, splitting wood, clearing shrubbery for farming, and breaking up bones of large game animals. The third type is longitudinally-grooved stone implements that could be identified as fishnet sinkers on the basis of parallels with North American Indian cultures. Benefiting from the ethnographic and archaeological record of American Indians cultures in this context may broaden our understanding of the function and use of ground stone tools casually identified at Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in the North East Aegean.