Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Letter, Anthropology Department, Van, Turkey
Baykara İsmail, e-mail: ibaykara@yyu.edu.tr.
Most scientists agree that modern humans left Africa relatively recently, and it was traditionally thought that the route taken was northwards, overland through the Middle East and beyond. However, there is growing disagreement about the route or routes taken by humans and when they migrated out of Africa. In this article, we will discuss about Middle Paleolithic archaeological evidence from Üçağızlı II Cave in order to assess the timing and geographic origins of Upper Pleistocene human colonization. Üçağızlı Cave II is a Middle Paleolithic locality situated on the Mediterranean coast of south-central Turkey. Üçağızlı II contains higher densities of lithics and bones as well as residues of hearth features, indicating a higher intensity or frequency of human frequentation. The Cave Lithic technology is dominated by Levallois production and hard-hammer percussion used to reduced the cores. All of the layers systematic reducing of the core is considered with mainly unipolar, secondary centripetal Levallois production. Orientation of the production is mainly flakes and scarcely seen blades manufactures. Typological feature is characterized with higher proportion of Levallois flake, Levallois points, Mousterian points, side scrapers types and lower proportion of upper Palaeolithic tool types. Those technological and typological evidence shows the cave is in Levantine Middle Palaeolithic assemblages.
Üçağızlı II Cave, Middle Paleolithic, Anatolia, Hatay
Цит.: Baykara İsmail ÜÇAĞIZLI CAVE II: MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC ASSEMBLAGES FROM SOUTH-ANATOLIA // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 88-88
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