Yazarlar |
İsmail Baykara
Gaziantep Üniversitesi, Türkiye |
Mehmet Akif Sarıkaya
Türkiye |
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 |