Motza EPPNB, Summary of Microwear and Technological Analysis.

G.L.: greatest length in mm; Edge Fractures: type of flake scars along cutting edge; battered: many edge fractures and flake scars along bit; Used: there is microwear or macrowear evidence for utilization; Motion: how the tool was used, heavy chopping, or lighter wood-working (e.g., carpentry); Worked Material: the type of material modified by the tool; cortex: some of the original exterior surface of the rock can still be seen on the artifact; fragment: tool is not complete; haft traces, hafted: wear traces suggest that the tool was attached to a handle; “humped:” failure to thin biface properly has left a thick hump on one or both faces; resharpened: the tool seems to have been retouched to restore a sharp edge. The tranchet axe with the polished bit (SN 15) is shown in boldface.Notes on contexts: one of the groundstone axes (SN 3) was found in the same locus (4070) where nine tranchet spalls were recovered. A calibrated radiocarbon date on bone from this Locus (4070) was 8336–8284 cal BC (1σ). A flint tranchet axe (SN 32) and a flint tranchet chisel (SN 6) were found in Locus 4050 where parts of a secondary burial feature that included at least five individuals were exposed, and a broken greenstone figurine that was recycled as a pendant was also recovered. A flint tranchet axe (SN 13) in Locus 4062 was associated with a calibrated radiocarbon date on bone (8304–8278 cal BC, 1σ). Two flint tranchet axes (SN 11 and 34) and two tranchet spalls (SN 27 and 28) were all found in Locus (5040). Three tranchet spalls (SN 29, 30, and 31) came from Locus 5053, and one came from Locus 5027 (SN 20).