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Plant food is a factor so far slightly neglected in research about G\u00f6bekli Tepe. We are now aiming to close this gap [read more here <\/a>and here<\/a>]. Preliminary results on grinding equipment from G\u00f6bekli Tepe and experimental approaches will be presented at this year\u00b4s Awrana (Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts, external link<\/a>) conference at University of Nice C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur on May 31, in a collaborative paper by Laura Dietrich, Oliver Dietrich, Julia Heeb\u00a0 and Nils Sch\u00e4kel.<\/p>\n Abstract<\/em>:<\/p>\n During the 10th and 9th millennia BC, at G\u00f6bekli Tepe in southeastern Anatolia, hunter-gatherers constructed the first monumental architecture of mankind. In an older phase, circular enclosures made up of up to 5.5m high pillars decorated richly, mainly with animal motifs, were erected, while in a younger phase rectangular buildings with smaller pillars were in use. Important questions regarding this site concern the way in which small-scale groups joined their forces for the massive construction work, creating a place strongly connected to their worldview, and how they secured their subsistence during the prolonged work at the site.<\/p>\n Until now, the focus was on the numerous finds of animal bones and hunting as subsistence strategy. This image may be biased by bad preservation conditions for plant remains, as more than 10.000 grinding stone were discovered at the site, reaching from flat slabs over deep bowls to mortars, pestles and handstones. At least in the younger phase of the site, a number of the square rooms could be interpreted as storage facilities, as they also contain large limestone vessels with capacities of up to 200 liters. Macroscopic and microscopic use wear hint at the use of the grinding stones for massive plant food processing. This interpretation is based on a comparison with experimentally manufactured objects. During the experiments, use-wear was related to shapes and to the grinding motions as important analytical parameters.<\/p>\n The paper aims to reveal the role of plant food at G\u00f6bekli Tepe, and linked with this, economic and social factors related to the construction and maintenance of this important site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plant food is a factor so far slightly neglected in research about G\u00f6bekli Tepe. We are now aiming to close this gap [read more here and here]. Preliminary results on grinding equipment from G\u00f6bekli Tepe and experimental approaches will be presented at this year\u00b4s Awrana (Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts, external link) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[586,157640,1260267,1981],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-food","tag-food-production","tag-gobeklitepe","tag-tools","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/the-tepe-telegrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}