Deciphering of grinding-milling tools use: Food processing activities at Middle Chalcolithic Güvercinkayası, Central Anatolia

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Deciphering of grinding-milling tools use: Food processing activities at Middle Chalcolithic Güvercinkayası, Central Anatolia

Original language description

Grinding-milling tools (thereafter GMT) are key to understanding everyday activities such as processing and preparation of food. The shape of GMTs is influenced by many circumstances, such as the availability and characteristics of raw materials, human skills, traditions, and cross-community interactions. Multiple shapes lead to the same functional use and, on the other hand, the same shape can have many functional applications. The use-wear analysis combined with the experimental program can shed light on the use of these tools. This paper presents the study of GMT assemblage from Middle Chalcolithic site Güvercinkayası located in Central Anatolia. Twenty artefacts were submitted to use-wear analysis to better understand the kinematics and life of the tools and how function is connected to shape or raw material and whether the tools were used at all. The study is complemented by the experimental program designed to investigate the development of wear from the grinding of various plant substances on rhyolite GMT replicas. The study has yielded several important findings related to the function and kinematics of food processing tools and has shed new light on their users. Most tools show similar use-wear traces that can be associated with the grinding of organic plant matter materials, such as cereals or legumes. Thanks to the pattern of use-wear traces, it was possible to determine the position of the user relative to the grinding stones. Some of the tools have proved to be unused. Furthermore, the analysis helped to distinguish mortars from containers.

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Czech description

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Type

O - Miscellaneous

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-10930S" target="_blank" >GA22-10930S: Big stones in settlements: Social strategies and macrolithic artefacts during the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic in Anatolia</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů