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Magaracik E Magarasi |
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Cave |
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Altitude:
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Region:
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Eastern Anatolia |
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Province:
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Kars |
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District:
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Merkez |
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Village:
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Magaracik |
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Excavation |
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| The cave is located 17 km southeast of Kars; in Borluk valley where Magaracik village is located. In 1942; K. Kökten has discovered numerous caves and rock shelters in Borluk valley (for Borluk Deresi Investigations and Research and Palaeolithic Age finds see Harmankaya-Tanindi 1996:Borluk Deresi). On the front terrace and inner floor of the cave labeled E; Kökten has found Chalcolithic Age material among which the chipped stone tools are made out of obsidian. Kökten has not published the finds. |
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