Dikili Tash

Characterization of a black residue in a decorated Neolithic pot from Dikili Tash, Greece:an unexpected result

“…Excavations in the main French sector V, on the south slope of the tell, were carried out between 1987 and 1995. At the end of the last campaign, in September 1995, an astonishing Figure 1 The carinated collared pot with painted decoration found on the floor of a Late Neolithic house (c. 5000 bc) at Dikili Tash (Eastern Macedonia, Greece); shown here after restoration (height 14.5 cm, mouth diameter 11.3 cm). discovery was made: while cleaning up a mass of debris that had fallen on the floor of a house unit in a phase I level, dated both by radiocarbon and thermoluminescence (Guibert and Roque 2000;Maniatis unpublished results) at about 5000 bc, the archaeologists came face to face-almost literally-with a 'bucranium', an ox's skull covered with originally raw clay, that had been baked during the conflagration that destroyed the house (Treuil 1996;Treuil and Darcque 1998). Actually, the 'bucranium' had fallen face down, with its mouth inside a clay pot that was lying on the floor beneath the bucranium's original location.…”

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“…(Perlès 2001: 190) και Ντικιλί Τας (Μ.Ν. )(Treuil 1996).162 Στον οικισµό της Νέας Μάκρης, Αττικής, µέσα στο πάχος των τοίχων, στις γωνίες και κοντά στα ανοίγµατα τοποθετούνταν κυλινδρικοί κατακόρυφοι πάσσαλοι, που πιθανότατα ενώνονταν µεταξύ τους µε οριζόντια δοκάρια(Παντελίδου-Γκόφα 1991: 157). Τα ξύλινα στοιχεία σχηµάτιζαν ισχυρό πλέγµα, που ενίσχυε και έδενε την πλινθοδοµή στην τοιχοποιία, αλλά µπορεί να χρησίµευαν παράλληλα και ως φέροντα στοιχεία της στέγης(Παντελίδου-Γκόφα 1996: 43, 71, εικ.…”