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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Erksin Güleç ,
Tim White ,
Steven Kuhn ,
Ismail Özer ,
Mehmet Saǧır ,
Hakan Yılmaz  and
F. Clark Howell
Erksin Güleç
Affiliation:
Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coǧrafya Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü, 06100 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey
Tim White
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Biology and Human Evolution Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 97420, USA
Steven Kuhn
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Bldg. 30, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721–0030, USA
Ismail Özer
Affiliation:
Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coǧrafya Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü, 06100 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey
Mehmet Saǧır
Affiliation:
Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coǧrafya Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü, 06100 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey
Hakan Yılmaz
Affiliation:
Ankara Üniversitesi, Dil ve Tarih-Coǧrafya Fakültesi, Antropoloji Bölümü, 06100 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey
F. Clark Howell
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Biology and Human Evolution Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 97420, USA
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Abstract

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 ago.

Keywords

AnatoliaLower PalaeolithicPliocenehomininsout of Africaerectus
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 319 , March 2009 , pp. 11 - 22
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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