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A Terminal Natufian Technocomplex on the Boundary of the Middle Taurus Mountain Range and Pazarcık Plain: First Results From Yusufun Kayası Cave in Kahramanmaraş

Sayı: 22 2 Ocak 2024
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A Terminal Natufian Technocomplex on the Boundary of the Middle Taurus Mountain Range and Pazarcık Plain: First Results From Yusufun Kayası Cave in Kahramanmaraş

Abstract

Yusufun Kayası Cave is located 45 km east of the city of Kahramanmaraş. Material with parallels to that of the Natufian culture were defined in the study region during the project. Despite the location of the Natufian tradition in the southern Levant, far from the Taurus mountains, our work suggests technological parallels extended over a much wider geography. From this, we also ask whether technological features of the Harifi- an, or terminal Natufian culture, could also be characterized by a wider geographic distribution. Based on this notion, we suggest that the elements of the lithic material from Yusufun Kayası cave, including lunates, backed bladelets, end scrapers, points, perforators, sickle elements (on fragments of blade and flakes), denticuated and notched tools, have parallels with the Harifian complex of the southern Levant. At the same time, there are also traces of technological innovations associated with plant processing and agriculture, including grinding stones and pulverizing tools recovered from the cave deposits.

Keywords

Near East, , Kahramanmaraş , Prehistory , Pre-Pottery Neolithic , Epipaleolithic

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Kaynak Göster

EndNote
Erek CM (01 Ocak 2024) A Terminal Natufian Technocomplex on the Boundary of the Middle Taurus Mountain Range and Pazarcık Plain: First Results From Yusufun Kayası Cave in Kahramanmaraş. Colloquium Anatolicum 22 47–60.