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Habitation Site / Workshop |
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Altitude:
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Region:
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Marmara |
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Province:
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Istanbul |
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District:
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Ümraniye |
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Village:
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Dudullu |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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AP OP |
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| Location: This open-air site is located in Istanbul; on the Asian side; east and northeast of the district of Ümraniye; in the district of Dudullu Köyü. The site collectively includes 13 artifact scatters on the ridge between the Büyük Göksu and the Küçük Göksu Streams. The site has been completely destroyed by the recent growth of the city. The name of the site should include the village of Dudullu and be "Göksu-Dudullu" but because of the site's proximity to the Göksu Stream; "Göksu" alone has been sufficient. Its survey code is D 13 / 1-13. |
| Geography and Environment: The tools collected by Jelinek and crew were found in a valley flank within a yellow; iron-nodule-rich stratum which was in a thicker reddish layer. The red layer can be found in the hilly higher terrain around Ümraniye and north of Dudullu which indicates that the layer must have extended over a wide area before the various rivers and changing streams eroded much of it. Because there are so few artifacts; it is not certain whether this site was a habitation site or atelier. Two of the 13 artifact scatters are reported to be related. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: In 1961 Sevket Aziz Kansu found some Palaeolithic tools in an unspecified part of the Göksu Valley [Kansu 1970:114; Kansu 1971:221]. The joint surface survey conducted by the University of Istanbul and the University of Chicago under the leadership Arthur Jelinek in 1964 recovered some Palaeolithic tools around the Göksu streams. The project's aim was to study the beginning of food production. It included students from the University of Istanbul and the University of Michigan. |
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| Small Finds: Of the finds that Kansu describes as very abraded; he published photos of two [Kansu 1970:114; fig. 1-4; Kansu 1971:fig.55-56]. The photographs unfortunately do not provide information on production techniques. Jelinek describes the core tools; flake tools and cores in detail in his publication. A quartz Upper Acheuléen biface handaxe was found in Artifact Scatter 10 [Jelinek 1980:fig.48; 2 B]. The quartz nodule-rich gravel fill of Artifact Scatter 1 yielded the base portion of a large quartz handaxe. Another biface was found in Artifact Scatter 2 [Jelinek 1980:fig. 48; 2 A]. Jelinek reports that this tool has Upper Aucheuléen characteristics and also that some Levallois and Clacton type flakes were found. A high number of the tools were notched and retouched. The raw material for the tools was either quartz or flint. Jelinek assigns the artifacts to the Upper Aucheuléen tradition at the end of the Riss and at the beginning of the Würm Ice Ages. |
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