As well as my yesterday's work, I took residue samples from stone querns stored in a working place.
Until today's survey, the total number of my sampled stone querns are counted at 18 stones including natural stones. These materials are mainly limestones, and a small number of them are sandstones. Based on my observation during taking samples, these stone tools seem to cause no contaminated problems. But 3 stone querns, which were excavated in this year, soil deposits were taken for comparing with residues on stone querns.
Can I extract starch granules from these samples? In other words, can I find any evidences showing functions of so many stone querns excavated from the Hasankeyf Hoyuk site? This is one of my research questions when I looked at these samples.
I will leave Turkey tomorrow, and come back to Japan on 23rd (Mon).
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| Quern found from this year's excavation |
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| Querns found until the last year |
Until today's survey, the total number of my sampled stone querns are counted at 18 stones including natural stones. These materials are mainly limestones, and a small number of them are sandstones. Based on my observation during taking samples, these stone tools seem to cause no contaminated problems. But 3 stone querns, which were excavated in this year, soil deposits were taken for comparing with residues on stone querns.
Can I extract starch granules from these samples? In other words, can I find any evidences showing functions of so many stone querns excavated from the Hasankeyf Hoyuk site? This is one of my research questions when I looked at these samples.
I will leave Turkey tomorrow, and come back to Japan on 23rd (Mon).
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