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Küçük Çekmece Yöresi |
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Type:
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Habitation Site / Workshop |
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Altitude:
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80 m |
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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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Avcilar |
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Village:
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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ÜP EP |
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| Location: This site; which is west of Istanbul; and the Küçük Çekmece Lake includes several different artifact scatters. One of these is the HARAMIDERE artifact scatter on the eastern bank of the Haramidere Valley. Another; closer to the sea; is the AMBARLI artifact scatter; named after the town of Ambarli to its north. The AVCILAR artifact scatter northeast of the town of Avcilar; is also very close to the Küçük Çekmece Lake. The final artifact scatter which is northwest of the lake and therefore south of the TEM highway is called KARTALTEPE. |
| Geography and Environment: There is no detailed information provided on the geographic or topographic location of this site. The surveyors who revisited the site in 1983 discovered that it was completely destroyed by the construction of the TEM highway [Özdogan 1985:223]. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: The artifact scatters belonging to this site; described above; were discovered by Mehmet Özdogan during his Thrace Surveys which began in 1983. The maps of the pre-third millennium sites in Thrace; published by Özdogan in 1985 and 1988 respectively depict three different Epipalaeolithic artifact scatters in and around Haramidere [Özdogan 1988a:161; fig.2; 1985:fig.1; map]. Özdogan notes that all three have been destroyed by modern development. The artifact scatters are Avcilar; west of the Küçükçekmece Lake; Ambarlidere (which is now beneath the power plant) and Haramidere. Because of their close proximity; we have included these artifact scatters collectively as the Küçükçekmece Lake sites. |
| Stratigraphy: |
| Small Finds: In his preliminary report; Özdogan provides no descriptive information on the characteristics of the chipped stone artifacts from the three artifact scatters and merely mentions the existence of Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic chipped stone artifacts at Haramidere. Although it is indicated that there is another Palaeolithic artifact scatter at Kartaltepe; so far nothing has appeared in print. |
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