Recent Studies at Bilecik Gedikkaya Cave in Northwestern Turkey
Öz
Gedikkaya Cave in northwestern Türkiye was occupied in several distinct periods. The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic occupations coincide with ‘cultural breaks’ in which human populations appear to have been mobile for reasons that are still not fully understood, but which may have been associated with climatic events such those as following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the 8.2-kiloyear event. The cave may have served as a temporary or variable-term shelter for transient populations in these times. Finds from the Chalcolithic include evidence for household industry and mining activity, suggesting somewhat more settled populations or perhaps transhumance. In this article, the Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlements of Gedikkaya Cave are introduced.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Western Anatolia, Middle Sakarya Valley, Gedikkaya Cave, Neolithic, Chalcolithic
Destekleyen Kurum
Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi
Proje Numarası
2017-02. BŞEÜ.04-05 ve 2019-01.BŞEÜ.04-04
Teşekkür
I express my sincere thanks and gratitude to R. Gareth Roberts for his valuable advice and editorial help with the manuscript. Preliminary assessments on archaeozoological material are made by Can Yümni Gündem and his team and anthropological assessments are made by Yılmaz Selim Erdal, I express my sincere thanks and gratitude for their contributions. I also express my sincere thanks to Isabelle Sidéra, Harun Taşkıran, Kadriye Özçelik, and Metin Kartal for their advice on the chipped stones and bone objects.
I am grateful to the Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University Research Foundation for supporting the Neolithic Keçiçayırı excavation project and the Experimental Archaeology programme (2017-02. BŞEÜ.04-05 and 2019-01.BŞEÜ.04-04, respectively), both of which contributed to research in Gedikkaya Cave.
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