Photos: Paleolithic chopper from Balitepe

 

A Lower Paleolithic chopper from Balitepe, NW Turkey.

Drawing: © Ludovic Slimak

Photos: "Micro" choppers from Balitepe

 

Two small sized choppers from the lithic industry of Balıtepe.

Drawing: © Ludovic Slimak

Map: Paleolithic of Turkish Thrace

Map showing the locations of the Paleolithic sites in Turkish Thrace, NW Turkey.

Photos: Paleolithic choppers from Kustepe

 

Lithic industry of Kuştepe is dominated by choppers. Bottom right: chopper having batterings on its surface.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Paleolithic choppers and chopping tools from Yatak

 

Yatak is the only Paleolithic site in Turkish Thrace which yields numerous chopping tools. There are not very much chopping tools in the other sites detad to Lower Paleolithic in the region.

Top left: chopper
Top right: a kind of biface which does not seem like typical Acheulean hand axes
Middle: heavy chopping tool
Bottom left chopping tool
Bottom right: chopping tool

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Balitepe, Paleolithic site

 

Balitepe is another Paleolithic site in Turkish Thrace.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Kustepe, Paleolithic site

 

Kustepe (Kuştepe) is located in Tekirdag/Turkish Thrace. It is the secondly discovered Paleolithic site of the region.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Yatak, a Lower Paleolithic site in Turkish Thrace

 

Yatak is the first discovered Paleolithic site of inner parts of Turkish Thrace. Yatak is discovered in 2000. Lately most of it destructed because of agricultural activities taken place on the site.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Chopper from Yarimburgaz Cave

 

A chopper from Yarimburgaz Cave. Photo taken at Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photo: Paleolithic site of Cakmakli in Istanbul

 

Cakmakli (Çakmaklı in Turkish), located on the eastern shore of Buyuk Cekmece lake, is an open-air Lower and Middle Paleolithic site on the west of modern Istanbul discovered by B. Dinçer and O. Özbudak in 13.11.2006.

There are chopper/chopping tools and levallois cores in the industry.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Yarimburgaz Cave

 

Yarımburgaz Caves, located in Istanbul, has two cavities; upper and lower. Excavations in upper cave yielded Neolithic/Chalcolithic layers, excavations in lower cave shed light to one of the earliest (400kyr) Lower Paleolithic occupations of Turkey. 

Photos: Yarimburgaz Cave - inside

Inside the lower cave of Yarimburgaz Caves.
© Berkay Dinçer

Map: Important Paleolithic sites in NW Turkey

Taken from ArkeoAtlas 1 with verbal permission.

Important Paleolithic sites of northwestern Turkey. This map is the
first appearance of Yatak for the wider public.

Photos: Search for the stone tools

©Rana Dinçer

Search for the stone tools.

Photos: A chopper from Yatak

©Berkay Dinçer

A Paleolithic chopper from Yatak.

Photos: Paleolitihic artifact containing stone pile from Yatak

©Berkay Dinçer

A view of stone pile containing Paleolithic artifacts. It was taken at
the very first days of the discovery of Yatak. Note the pile is
relatively smaller than the later photos.

Photos: The History Foundation award to my Paleolithic paper

©Rana Dinçer

Prof. Dr. Oğuz Tekin giving me (Berkay Dinçer) an award of The History
Foundation (Tarih Vakfı - Turkey) for my paper about the Paleolithic of
Yatak.

Photos: A view from Yatak

©Berkay Dinçer

A view from Paleolithic site of Yatak.

Photos: The biggest Paleolithic chopper

©Berkay Dinçer

The biggest Paleolithic chopper from Yatak which is heavier that 1.75
kilograms.

(Yatak'ta bulunmuş en büyük satır.)

Photos: Paleolithic chopper from Yatak

©Berkay Dinçer

A small Paleolithic chopper of flint from Yatak.

(Yatak'tan bir satır.)