Bilecik Bahçelievler Neolitik Çağ Yontmataş Topluluğuna Ait İlk Değerlendirmeler

Year 2021, Issue: 24, 93 - 116, 20.09.2021

Neyir Kolankaya Bostancı , Erkan Fidan

https://doi.org/10.26650/anar.2021.24.935202

Abstract

Bu makale, Bilecik Arkeoloji Müzesi başkanlığında sürdürülen Bahçelievler yerleşmesinde 2019 ve 2020 yılı kazı sezonları sırasında ele geçen yontmataş buluntulara dair ilk gözlemleri içermektedir. Kuzeybatı Anadolu’nun en eski yerleşmelerinden biri olan ve MÖ 7. binyılda yerleşim görmüş olan Bahçelievler yerleşmesindeki yontmataş buluntu grubu üzerine yapılan ilk değerlendirmeler, yerleşmede büyük oranda yerel çakmaktaşının kullanıldığını, bunun yanı sıra Orta Anadolu’dan ithal edilen obsidyenlerin de var olduğu bir yontmataş topluluğunu işaret etmektedir. Yongalama işleminin büyük oranda avlularda gerçekleşmiş olduğu Bahçelievler’de yontmataş topluluğu, dilgi ve dilgicik üretimine dayanmaktadır. Daha çok yapıların içinden ele geçen alet tipleri arasında yerleşimde tarımın önemli bir yer tuttuğunu gösteren orak dilgi ve dilgiciklerinin yoğunlukta olduğu görülmektedir. Bahçelievler Neolitik Çağ yontmataş topluluğu üzerine yapılan bu ilk çalışma, mermi biçimli çekirdekler ile keski ağızlı ok uçlarının varlığı ve baskı tekniği kullanımını ortaya koymasından dolayı, yerleşimde Kuzeybatı Anadolu’da özellikle de Menteşe ve Barcın Höyük’te yaşayan toplumların MÖ 7. Binyılda benzer teknolojileri kullanıldığını göstermiştir

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Kuzeybatı Anadolu, Bilecik, Bahçelievler, Neolitik, Yontmataş

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Preliminary Evaluations of the Bilecik Bahçelievler Neolithic Chipped Stone Assemblage

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This paper details the preliminary results of the chipped stone artifacts from the Bahçelievler settlement, uncovered during the 2019 and 2020 excavation seasons, which were directed by the Bilecik Archaeology Museum. The first evaluations of the lithic assemblage from Bahçelievler, one of the earliest sites in Northwest Anatolia, which was settled during the 7th millennium BC, show that local flint was used in the settlement to a greater extent than obsidian that was imported from Central Anatolia. At Bahçelievler, where the knapping was mostly carried out in courtyards, the lithic chipped stone assemblage is based on the production of blades and bladelets. Among the main tool types recovered from the buildings, sickle blades and bladelets are common, which indicates that agriculture had an important place in the life and economy of the settlement. This preliminary study of the Bahçelievler Neolithic chipped stone assemblage reveals the presence of bullet-shaped cores and transverse arrowheads and the use of a pressure technique, suggesting that the communities living in Northwest Anatolia, especially Menteşe and Barcın Höyük, used similar technologies in the 7th Millennium BC.

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Northwest Anatolia, Bilecik, Bahçelievler, Neolithic, Chipped Stone

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