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Author Dietrich, Laura, author

Title Plant food processing tools at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Laura Dietrich
Published Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 234 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), plans
Contents List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Chapter 1: Highlights of the Study ; Chapter 2: The Site with Oliver Dietrich and Jens Notroff ; Chapter 3: Methods, Experiments and their Results ; Chapter 4: Handstones ; Chapter 5: Pestles ; Chapter 6: The Netherstones ; Chapter 7: Stone Containers and Platters ; Chapter 8: Discussion of the Results of the Analysis ; Chapter 9: Plants and Landscapes at Göbekli Tepe (Excursus) ; Appendices ; Bibliography
Summary <I>Plant Food Processing Tools at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe</i> reconstructs plant food processing at this key Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8000 BC) site, with an emphasis on cereals, legumes and herbs as food sources, on grinding and pounding tools for their processing, and on the vessels implied in the consumption of meals and beverages. Functional investigations on grinding and pounding tools and on stone containers through use-wear and residue analyses are at the core of the book. Their corpus amounts to more than 7000 objects, constituting thus the largest collection published so far from the Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia. The spectrum of tools and of processed plants is very broad, but porridges made of cereals, legumes and herbs, and beers predominate over bread-like food. The find contexts show that cooking took place around the well-known monumental buildings, while the large quantity of tools suggests feasting in addition to daily meals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Tools, Prehistoric -- Turkey -- Göbekli Tepe
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Göbekli Tepe
Neolithic period -- Turkey -- Göbekli Tepe
Food habits -- Turkey -- Göbekli Tepe
Middle & Near Eastern archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Food habits.
Neolithic period.
Tools, Prehistoric.
SUBJECT Göbekli Tepe (Turkey) -- Antiquities
Subject Turkey -- Göbekli Tepe.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781803270937
1803270934