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Barsik |
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Single Findspot |
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Altitude:
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Region:
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Central Anatolia |
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Province:
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Kayseri |
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District:
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Merkez |
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Village:
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Barsik |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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AP |
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| Location: This site is located north of the city of Kayseri; by the highway running between Felahiye and Kayseri; near the village of Barsik. The site lies close to the Kizilirmak River; in the gravely fill that accumulated in the dried stream bed of a small stream incised into the terrace 40 m above the present day level of the Kizilirmak Valley. The name Barsik is probably a deviated form of Bagirsak; from the nearby Bagirsak Baglari Vineyards. |
| Geography and Environment: The chipped stone tools described below were found clustered in an old stream bed that lies on a terrace 40 m above the level of the Kizilirmak River today. This terrace was probably where the river flowed in the Pleistocene. Erdbrink and van Heekeren assign this terrace to the Lower Pleistocene. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: In 1963 while they were conducting a survey along the Kizilirmak river; Erdbrink and van Heekeren found many chipped stone tools as well as a Hipparion molar in a pile of accumulated rubble. |
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| Small Finds: Two of the roughly flaked pebble tools are made of limestone which has begun to flake off and pulverize. Their lengths are 20 cm and 11 cm respectively. The third flint tool is made of white flint. The semicircular convex 7.5 cm long tool with rough retouching can be described either as a discoid core tool or a rounded scraper [Tomsky 1982:217-218]. Because the tool appears to be very abraded it is suggested that it was carried from Central Anatolia by the Kizilirmak River. Tomsky skeptically proposes that the tools are Acheuléen. |
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