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Kerzin Çayi Güneyi

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Kerzin Çayı Güneyi
Type:
Habitation Site / Workshop
Altitude:
m
Region:
Southeastern Anatolia
Province:
Gaziantep
District:
Karkamis
Village:
Elifoglu
Investigation Method:
Survey
Period:
AP

     


The site is lies in the city of Gaziantep; Karkamis district; Eliflioglu village. Its exact location is; immediately west of the place where Eliflioglu village road crosses a bridge over Kerzin stream; in the pistachio fields bordering the south of Kerzin stream and extending to the railway line. This site was discovered in 2000 by a team leaded by H. Taskiran during the project of "The Palaeolithic Survey in the Carchemish Dam Reservoir Region" coordinated by METU TAÇDAM (Center for Research and Assessment of the Historic Environment). A total of 25 chipped stone tools made of flint; five of them bifaces were collected [Taskiran 2002:421]. Code W48/35.
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