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The Epi-Palaeolithic of Öküzini cave (SW Anatolia) and its mobiliary art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marcel Otte
Affiliation:
Université de Liège, Service de Préhistoire, Place du XX Août 7, bât.A1, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Isin Yalcinkaya
Affiliation:
Dil ve Tarih Cografya Fakulttesti, Prehistoriya Anibilim Dale, 06100 Sihhiye Ankara, Turkey
Jean-Marc Leotard
Affiliation:
Université de Liège, Service de Préhistoire, Place du XX Août 7, bât.A1, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Metin Kartal
Affiliation:
Dil ve Tarih Cografya Fakulttesti, Prehistoriya Anibilim Dale, 06100 Sihhiye Ankara, Turkey
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02133, USA
Janusz Kozlowski
Affiliation:
Institut Archeologi, Universijtet Jagellonski, ul. Golebia 11, 31007 Krakow, Poland
Ignacio López Bayón
Affiliation:
Université de Liège, Service de Préhistoire, Place du XX Août 7, bât.A1, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Alexander Marshack
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02133, USA

Abstract

Late and Epi-Palaeolithic sequences are well known from field work and publications in southeast Europe and the Levant. Current research in Anatolia promises to shed new light on the vast region that connects these two areas. At Öküzini cave a detailed sequence of Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene assemblages contributes greatly to our understanding.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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