The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey

Gulec E., White T., Kuhn S., Özer İ., Sağır M., Yılmaz H., ...Daha Fazla

ANTIQUITY, cilt.83, sa.319, ss.11-22, 2009 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 83 Sayı: 319
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1017/s0003598x00098057
  • Dergi Adı: ANTIQUITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.11-22
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Anatolia, Lower Palaeolithic, Pliocene, hominins, out of Africa, erectus, OLDUVAI BED-I, KALETEPE-DERESI-3 TURKEY, GEORGIA, AFRICA, DISPERSAL
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Homo erectus leaving Africa a million years ago ought to have passed through the area that is now Turkey, and the authors report a first certain sighting of human activity of this date in a lignite quarry near Konya. The remains of rhino, hippo and horse were found with 135 modified quartz implements in layers dated by palaeomagnetic reversal to between 0.78 and 0.99 million years is ago.