A Possible Late Pleistocene Forager Site from the Karaburun Peninsula

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Figure 3. A selection of chipped stones from site 35: a–c) scrapers; d) perforator; e) burin; f): lunate; g–h) retouched blades; i) bladelet core (drawing by D. Turan).

Discussion The microlithic character of the assemblage and the relatively large proportion of blades and bladelets contrast with an open-air site (site 31) discovered previously by the KASP, which was tentatively assigned to the Aegean Mesolithic tradition (Çilingiroglu˘ et al. 2016; Çilingiroglu˘ 2017). The very small size of the cores and the presence of microlithic ﬂakes and bladelets—as well as geometric pieces such as the lunate—from site 35 allows for © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018

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