Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
6000 BC: Transformation and Change in the Near East and Europe, Peter F. Biehl,Eva Rosenstock, Editör, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (MA), USA , Cambridge, ss.83-103, 2022
Because of its rich obsidian sources, a part of the Cappadocian volcanic region, especially the Melendiz mountains, located in the southern part of the central Anatolian plateau, attracted the attention of prehistoric peoples. This region had been settled already in the Paleolithic period (Slimak et al. 2008). At the beginning of the Neolithic period in particular, interest in the obsidian sources by groups increased, and they began to exploit them intensively. The obsidian sourcing and the chain of tool production on the one hand played a role in the development of technologies, and on the other hand the raw material itself and the products became direct or indirect items to barter, swap or exchange. Producing and exchanging obsidian, together with favorable environmental conditions, could have triggered techno-cultural and cultural developments which could be observed especially within the settlements, as exemplified by the excavations in Tepecik-Çiftlik, but also reflected in patterns of site type distribution evidenced in surveys.