Lithics

Çatalhöyük is a neolithic (new stone age) site. At this point in time various types of stone were used to make tools like weapon points, knives, awls, scrapers, hammers, and axes that later would be made of metal after that technology was mastered. Because of this, and the fact that they don't decompose through time, stone tools are a major category of artifacts being studied. Researchers want to know about things like - where the different types of stone came from, how they got to Çatalhöyük, the techniques used to make them, how they were used and what they were used for?