The Yarimburgaz cave, Thrace, Turkey, final Middle Pleistocene La grotte de Yarimburgaz, Thrace, Turquie, Pléistocène Moyen final


de Lumley H., Cauche D., Moigne A., Çuhadar Z., Sentürk F. B., Tedil A., ...More

Anthropologie (France), vol.129, no.4, 2025 (SSCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 129 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2025
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.anthro.2025.103393
  • Journal Name: Anthropologie (France)
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, FRANCIS, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, L'Année philologique, Anthropological Literature, BIOSIS
  • Keywords: Final Middle Pleistocene, Lower Palaeolithic, Mammal fauna, Turkey, Yarimburgaz Cave
  • Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The Yarimburgaz cave, located in the European part of Turkey, contains levels of prehistoric occupation which, according to dating and the stage of evolution of the fauna present, are attributed to the final Middle Pleistocene. The presence of fire is attested among these occupation levels, and the abundant lithic industry reveals neither bifaces nor Levallois debitage.