The distribution of Acheulean culture and its possible routes in Turkey

Taşkıran, Harun

doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2016.12.005

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“…Unfortunately, no radiometric dating has ever been undertaken, and the Lower Palaeolithic period has been described only through the technological and typological characteristics of chipped stone tools. Nevertheless, two localities, Nizip (Minzoni-Déroche, 1987) and Dızmırtaşı (Taşkıran, 2018) in south-eastern Anatolia, appear to be contemporary with Gürgürbaba Hill, based on the nature of the Late Acheulean industry.…”

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“…The handaxes collected from the layers of the Quaternary alluvium II, defined as belonging to the Upper Acheulean period, are estimated to be older than 300,000 years, according to radiometric dating of terrace deposits in Syria along the Euphrates (Minzoni-Déroche, 1987). Within the Dızmırtaşı-Karkamış Dam project on the Euphrates, seventy-four handaxes were identified as having Late Acheulean typological characteristics (Taşkıran, 2018). The Gaziantep Quaternary alluvium II (Minzoni-Déroche, 1987) and Dızmırtaşı (Taşkıran, 2018) localities resemble Gürgürbaba Hill, in that they contain Late Acheulean handaxes and Levallois products.…”

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“…Within the Dızmırtaşı-Karkamış Dam project on the Euphrates, seventy-four handaxes were identified as having Late Acheulean typological characteristics (Taşkıran, 2018). The Gaziantep Quaternary alluvium II (Minzoni-Déroche, 1987) and Dızmırtaşı (Taşkıran, 2018) localities resemble Gürgürbaba Hill, in that they contain Late Acheulean handaxes and Levallois products. However, the widespread production of handaxes by hard hammering at Gürgürbaba Hill differs from that found at Nizip and Dızmırtaşı.…”

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“…Thus, it should have been a critical route for hominins. Several studies have shown that Anatolia was possibly permanently occupied at least from the middle of the Middle Pleistocene (Minzoni-Déroche, 1987; Otte et al, 1998; Slimak et al, 2008; Güleç et al, 2009; Kuhn et al, 2015; Dinçer, 2016; Taşkıran, 2018). Yet the hominin fossil record currently available for Anatolia is very limited, except for the Kocabaş hominins (assigned to Homo erectus ) associated with the Lower Palaeolithic of Denizli province in south-western Turkey (Lebatard et al, 2014).…”

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

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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.

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

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“…The prevailing view has held that the Aegean Sea-separating western Anatolia from continental Greece-constituted an impassable barrier to pre-sapiens populations. The likeliest entry point to Europe was consequently hypothesized to be the Marmara-Thrace land corridor (13)(14)(15). Recent archaeological and paleogeographic research, however, challenges this model.…”

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Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin andHomo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals

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We present evidence of Middle Pleistocene activity in the central Aegean Basin at the chert extraction and reduction complex of Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Luminescence dating places ~9000 artifacts in a stratigraphic sequence from ~13 to 200 thousand years ago (ka ago). These artifacts include Mousterian products, which arguably provide first evidence for Neanderthals in the region. This dated material attests to a much earlier history of regional exploration than previously believed, opening the possibility of alternative routes into Southeast Europe from Anatolia (and Africa) for (i) hominins, potentially during sea level lowstands (e.g., Marine Isotope Stage 8) permitting terrestrial crossings across the Aegean, and (ii) Homo sapiens of the Early Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian), conceivably by sea.

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