A First Glimpse of the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic in Cappadocia through the Lithic Industry of Tepecik-Çiftlik 2017 Season

We are quite well informed on the dynamics for the Neolithic periods in Central Anatolia, and a lot of studies were undertaken to document the economic and cultural changes that appear during this key period. But there is a real lack of technological and functional data analysis for the Chalcolithic. Though the subsistence economy is still based on agriculture it has evolved since the beginning of plant domestication. Technical skills change through time and we can document this evolution wit...