ÇATALHÖYÜK 1999 ARCHIVE REPORT 

Table 13: Chipped stone from 1999 season, KOPAL trench: Number, weight and mean weight by raw material.

Raw Material

Number

% of Total

Weight (g)

% of Total

Mean Wgt. (g)

Obsidian

199

93%

133.43

42.3%

0.67g

‘Flint'

15

7%

181.43

57.7%

12.09g

Table 14: Chipped stone from 1999 season, KOPAL trench: Number and weight by recovery method.

Raw

Dry Sieve

Flotation

Material

No.

%

Wgt.

%

No.

%

Wgt.

%

Obsidian

89

44.7%

130.6g

97.9%

110

55.3%

2.83g

2.1%

‘Flint'

13

86.7%

90.54g

99.8%

2

14.3%

0.19g

0.2%

Table 15: Chipped stone from 1999 season, KOPAL trench: Number and weight by level.

Context

Total C.S.

Obsidian

‘Flint'

Cleaning / backfill

1

1

5.48g

-

-

Above backswamp clay

12

11

6.45g

1

9.19g

Below backswamp clay

202

188

123.5g

14

81.54g
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© Çatalhöyük Research Project and individual authors, 1999