Excavations at Çayönü Tepe have unearthed a settlement from Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), and the Pottery Neolithic (PN)1.The very first buildings of this farming settlement in the 10th millennium was circular houses of 4-5 m in diameter. There were abundant of chopped flint or obsydian tools, appliances made of bone or horn. There was no pottery but some clay figurines of animals and a few of human shape.
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- Daniel T. Potts, A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, John Wiley & Sons 2015, pp. diff
- Cilek Altinbilek, Laurence Astruc, Didier Binder, Jacques Pelegrin, Pressure blade production with a lever in the Early and Late Neolithic of the Near-East, In : P. M. Desrosiers (Ed.), The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making, From Origin to Modern Experimentation, Springer, 2012, pp. 157-179.
- http://turkisharchaeonews.net/news/%C3%A7ay%C3%B6n%C3%BC-archaeological-site-and-hilar-caves-face-oblivion
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