ABSTRACT
During the course of excavations at Çatalhöyük a number of hoards of obsidian artefacts have been found buried under house floors. The primary purpose of this paper is to document and examine their technological and contextual characteristics. It is then argued that the hoards are both technologically distinct from non-hoarded lithics, and that the act of their hoarding has some ritual significance because of their preferential burial near hearths and in the southern part of houses.
