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This article contains the first observations of the crossing findings taken during the 2019 and 2020 excavation seasons in the Bahçelievler settlement held under the headquarters of the Bilecik Archaeological Museum. The first assessments made on the Yontmataş buluntu group in the Bahçelievler settlement, which is one of the oldest settlements of northwestern Anadolu and has been settled in the 7th millennium BC, indicate that a large part of the local chakmaktaş was used in the settlement, and that there is also a Yontmataş community where the obsidians imported from Central Anadolu exist. The process of yongalama is largely done in the gardens in the garden, the yongmataş community is based on the production of tongue and tongue. There are many types of tools that are handled inside the structures that show that agriculture has a significant place in the settlement. This first study on the Neolithic Age of Gardelievers, because it revealed the existence and use of the pressure technique of the shell-shaped shells and shell-shaped shells, the settlements in the northwestern Anadolu, especially in Menteşe and Barcın Höyük in the 7th century BC. It has shown that similar technologies have been used over the years.

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This paper details the preliminary results of the chipped stone artifacts from the Bahçelievler settlement, uncovered during the 2019 and 2020 excavation seasons, which were directed by the Bilecik Archaeology Museum. The first evaluations of the lithic assemblage from Bahçelievler, one of the earliest sites in Northwest Anatolia, which was settled during the 7th millennium BC, show that local flint was used in the settlement to a greater extent than obsidian that was imported from Central Anatolia. At Bahçelievler, where the knapping was mostly carried out in courtyards, the lithic chipped stone assemblage is based on the production of blades and bladelets. Among the main tool types recovered from the buildings, sickle blades and bladelets are common, which indicates that agriculture had an important place in the life and economy of the settlement. This preliminary study of the Bahçelievler Neolithic chipped stone assemblage reveals the presence of bullet-shaped cores and transverse arrowheads and the use of a pressure technique, suggesting that the communities living in Northwest Anatolia, especially Menteşe and Barcın Höyük, used similar technologies in the 7th Millennium BC.

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