Editing Göbekli Tepe (section)

== Tools ==
Göbekli Tepe is littered with [[flint]] artifacts, from the ridge-top site to the slopes.{{Sfn|Benedict|1980|p=179}} The tool assemblage found resembles that of other Northern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic (settlement) sites.{{Sfn|Breuers|Kinzel|2022|p=484}}

In 1963, over 3,000 Neolithic tools were uncovered, the vast majority of excellent quality flint, only a handful of [[obsidian]]. [[Lithic core|Cores]], various blades, [[Flake tool|flakes]], [[Scraper (archaeology)|scrapers]], [[Burin (lithic flake)|burins]], and [[projectile point]]s, were the most common tool types.{{Sfn|Benedict|1980|p=181-182}}

Excavations of Space 16, a small building adjacent to enclosure D, yielded almost 700 tools. Most common were [[Retouch (lithics)|retouched]] artifacts, followed by scrapers, perforators and artifacts with [[Sickle-gloss|gloss]]. Heavy duty tools, burins and [[microlith]]s were also present.{{Sfn|Breuers|Kinzel|2022|p=478-479}}

Over 7000 [[Millstone|grinding stones]] have been found, spanning the entirety of the sites usage, which are suggested to have been used to process cereal based on [[phytolith]]s found in associated soil, though it is unclear whether the cereal was wild or cultivated.{{sfn|Dietrich et al.|2019}}