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Karababa - Subasi

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Karababa - Subaşı
Type:
Habitation Site / Workshop
Altitude:
m
Region:
Marmara
Province:
Istanbul
District:
Çatalca
Village:
Subasi
Investigation Method:
Survey
Period:
OP

     


Location: This site; which is in the province of Istanbul includes several artifact scatters. Since the number of artifacts found at each of these artifact scatters is so minimal; we have decided to present these nearby sites as a whole. Chipped stone tools were found at KARABABA MEVKII; 7 km north of the town of Çatalca and southwest of the village of Subasi; and in the village of Subasi itself; at the SUBASI Artifact Scatter. Similarly; tools were found northeast of Çatalca; near (?) the village of YASSIÖREN; as well as near the village of Balaban which is south of the Terkos (Durusu) Lake; at the BALABAN Artifact Scatter. The survey code of this site is D 10 / 33-34.
Geography and Environment: Because we are not informed about the specific locations of these artifact scatters; it is difficult to give comparative distances between them.
History:
Research and Excavation: Chipped stone artifacts from this site were collected in 1981 during Mehmet Özdogan's survey of the area. Özdogan notes that there are two separate artifact scatters in the Karababa district. It is not certain whether one of these artifact scatters is the same as the Karababa Magarasi Cave; located in the Terkos-Gökçeali Region; discovered in 1964; but it is likely [Kansu 1965:548].
Stratigraphy:
Small Finds: The chipped stone tools found in Karababa are Levalloiso-Moustérien type artifacts assigned to the Middle Palaeolithic. Detailed information on the finds from the other sites in the region has not yet been published. Subasi; Yassiören and Balaban (not represented on the map above) are some examples of Palaeolithic (or Epipalaeolithic) sites around Istanbul (Özdogan 1985:map of fig.1).
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