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Late Acheulean Lithic Assemblages From Locality 010 at Gürgürbaba Hill (Eastern Anatolia)      
Yazarlar
İsmail Baykara
Gaziantep Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Mehmet Akif Sarıkaya
Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Serkan ŞAHİN Doç. Dr. Serkan ŞAHİN
Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Berkay Dinçer
İstanbul Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Esin Ünal
Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
The province of Van in north-eastern Turkey served as a land bridge between Africa and Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. The region is of particular relevance for understanding the movement of hominins between these continents. This study concerns the lithic remains from a locality at Gurgurbaba Hill, named Locality 010, north of the village of Ulupamir (Ercis district). Locality 010 was dated to 311 +/- 32 kya by terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides method, which coincides with Marine Isotope Stage 9 (MIS 9), a Middle Pleistocene interglacial period. The assemblage from this site is attributed to the Late Acheulean and resembles that of the southern Caucasus. This similarity indicates that the artefacts from Locality 010 were probably produced by late Lower Palaeolithic technology in a broad sense. These findings suggest local adaptations of late Middle Pleistocene hominins to high plateau environments.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Late Acheulean | obsidian | eastern Anatolia | Gurgurbaba Hill | human migration | landscape adaptation
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Dergi ISSN 1461-9571
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler AHCI
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 08-2022
Cilt No 25
Sayı 3
Sayfalar 289 / 308
Doi Numarası 10.1017/eaa.2021.50
Makale Linki http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.50