Mersin-Yumuktepe. Une mise au point sur les derniers travaux

The Preliminary Report on the 2019-2020 Seasons of the Central Taurus Prehistoric Research Project (OTTA)

“…The milder climate of the Mediterranean area even in the coldest periods (Dinçer, 2016;Kuhn, Dinçer, Balkan-Atlı, & Erturaç, 2015;Özçelik, 2015), meant that environmental conditions were suitable for living throughout prehistory but despite this, there is a large chronological gap in the region because most of the previous research conducted in the south of the Central Taurus has dealt with the Neolithic and subsequent periods. The majority of the studies were focused on investigations of the plains 2 and the chronology of the region pertaining to these periods is based on only two sites -Yumuktepe and Gözlükule (Novak et al, 2017;Caneva & Jean, 2016). However, the most recent studies (Kayci, 2019) have revealed the importance of the southern slopes of the Central Taurus Mountains in the earlier prehistory.…”