What's actually there
Conical bedrock pits are reported. The pits vary in size and depth. Official reporting interprets them as mortars.
What to notice
What's carved on it
- food-work evidence
Taş Tepeler / Çakmaktepe / Çakmaktepe's Mortars and Food-Work Tools
Discovery · Çakmaktepe
Çakmaktepe's Mortars and Food-Work Tools
Çakmaktepe's mortars and food-work tools help show that early Taş Tepeler evidence includes daily work, processing, and settlement planning, not only special buildings. Official reporting describes conical holes of varying size and depth carved into bedrock and interprets them as mortars.
Site: ÇakmaktepeType: food-work evidence
Çakmaktepe. (Site view; not a photograph of this find.)
Fatma Şahin, Cakmaktepe general view, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.