Late Acheulean Lithic Assemblages From Locality 010 at GÜrgÜrbaba Hill (Eastern Anatolia)

Ismail Baykara; M. Akif Sarlkaya; Serkan Şahin; Berkay Dinçer; Esin Ünal

doi:10.1017/eaa.2021.50

Late Acheulean Lithic Assemblages From Locality 010 at GÜrgÜrbaba Hill (Eastern Anatolia)

Ismail Baykara
, M. Akif Sarlkaya
, Serkan Şahin
, Berkay Dinçer
, Esin Ünal

Avrasya Yer Bilimleri Enstitüsü

Gaziantep University
Kırşehir Ahi Evran University
Istanbul University
Yuzuncu Yil University

Araştırma çıktısı: Dergi yayını › Makale › Hakem

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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 GÜrgÜrbaba Hill, named Locality 010, north of the village of Ulupamir (Erciş 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.

Orijinal dil	İngilizce
Sayfa (başlangıç-bitiş)	289-308
Sayfa sayısı	20
Dergi	European Journal of Archaeology
Hacim	25
Basın numarası	3
DOI'lar	https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.50
Yayın durumu	Yayınlandı - 20 Ağu 2022

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Association of Archaeologists.

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This work was supported by the Turkish Historical Society, under Grants 2016.49, 2017.90, 2018.86, and 2019.72, and by Van-Yüzüncü Yıl University, under Grants SBA2017-5509 and 2014-EDB218. The site of Gürgürbaba Hill was investigated within a project titled ‘The Survey of the Pleistocene Period at Van’ initiated by the authors. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the staff of the Van Regional Cultural Heritage Conservation Board Directorate, and the Van Archaeology Museum Directorate for their valuable contributions. We are most grateful to Fikret Yaşar who provided accommodation in Erciş. Erkan Konyar provided field equipment. We are also grateful to Naoki Morimoto (Department of Biological Science, Kyoto University), Amy E. Clark (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University), and Engin Sönmez (Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester) for language revision. Finally, we would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers and our proof-reader.

Finansörler	Finansör numarası
Turkish Historical Society	2016.49, 2018.86, 2017.90, 2019.72
Van-Yüzüncü Yıl University	2014-EDB218, SBA2017-5509

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10.1017/eaa.2021.50

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