Early village technology : A view through the microscope

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A rigorous approach to the identification and classification of artifacts is of central importance to the archeologist. A system incorporating morphological-statistical measurements and wear pattern observations is presented. Several distinctive wear patterns observed on artifacts from the early village of Çayönü in southeastern Turkey are described and illustrated. The general position put forth in this paper is that major effort must be continued to be put into the recognition and understanding of the function of artifacts and the typological underpinnings of classificatory systems because all further analyses, no matter how sophisticated, are only as reliable as the categories they are based upon.

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