10,000 Years of One Object
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Term 01 · The spoon

Kaşık

An 8,000-year-old habit

You have probably held one today. People in Anatolia were carving them from antler and bone more than 8,000 years ago.

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2 Turn it over

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Reconstructions from published descriptions, not scans.

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3 Five spoons, one shape

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4 How a spoon is carved

A carousel made of the same frames we post on Instagram. Tap a card to hear it.

3D A walk through Çağlar's workshop: coming soon.

5 Who carves it now

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Woodwork · founding maker

Çağlar

Brand name to be decided. The maker page builds this card, the process and the products from one record.

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Do you carve spoons?

Boxwood, hornbeam, walnut, olive. salata gives makers a page like this one, real visitors and a monthly report on what people want.

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7 The everyday version, made by a person

Sold only on salata.market. Prices are the business plan's indicative prices.

8 Take the spoon with you

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Sources

  1. Çatalhöyük Archive Report 1997, bone tools (antler spoons)
  2. Kim Dekker, bone spoons of Barcın Höyük
  3. San Antonio Museum of Art, Roman cochlear and ligula
  4. Turkey Travel Planner, Ottoman spoon materials
  5. Kaşık Havası (Wikipedia) · Metin And on spoon dances
  6. Spoonmaker's Diamond (Wikipedia)
  7. Wooden spoon making in Pusacık, Amasya

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