Abstract
This paper is a presentation of three sources of artifact‐quality chert inCentralAnatolia. A previous dearth of research focused on locating and characterizing such raw material sources has incorrectly colored our view of prehistoric economic practices. To remedy this situation, we have conducted a survey of various locales withinCentralAnatolia to test for the presence of artifact‐quality materials. We make use ofIndividualAttributeAnalysis (IAA) andEnergyDispersiveX‐rayFluorescence (EDXRF) analysis to discriminate among these materials, and suggest their use by theNeolithic occupants ofÇatalhöyük through similar analyses of artifactual materials. We argue that the presence and characterization of these new sources allows us to better understand the intricacies ofNeolithic practices by illustrating the ways in which the consumption of these materials was variably entwined with the exploitation of other resources, as well as embedded within social relations outside ofCentralAnatolia. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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