Photo: Middle Paleolithic find spot of Gorukle-Bursa

Middle Paleolithic find spot of Gorukle (Bursa).
©Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Photo: Levallois core from Gorukle (NW Turkey)

Levallois core from Gorukle (NW Turkey).
©Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Bifacial hand-axe from Karain Cave

Bifacial hand-axe from Karain Cave (Antalya-Turkey).

Photo taken in the First Humans of Turkey exhibit (Türkiye'nin İlk
İnsanları Sergisi).
©Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Paleolithic of Euphrates River

Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone tools from Euphrates River.
Bifaces, levallois cores and flakes/blades.

Photo taken in the First Humans of Turkey exhibit (Türkiye'nin İlk
İnsanları Sergisi).
©Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Denticulates and notched tools from Yarimburgaz Cave

Stone tools from Yarımburgaz Cave (Istanbul). Notches and denticulates.

Photo taken in the First Humans of Turkey exhibit (Türkiye'nin İlk
İnsanları Sergisi).
©Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Photo: Obsidian hand axe (Palaeolithic)

Obsidian hand-axe made. Lower Paleolithic.
© Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Mousterian lithic industry

Mousterian stone tools from Musée prehistoire d'Orgnac, Ardeche, France.

©Photo: Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Polyedric pieces

 

Polyedric pieces from Kaletepe Deresi 3.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

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

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: Chopper from Yarimburgaz Cave

 

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

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Prehistoric arrow heads

Prehistoric arrow heads from National Museum, Copenhagen (Nationalmuseet, København).

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer