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Nukultalip Tepe |
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Artifact Scatter |
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Southeastern Anatolia |
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Batman |
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Merkez |
Village:
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Çayüstü |
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Survey |
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It locates on the southeastern slopes of Nukultalip Hill; about 2.5 km southeast of Çayüstü Village; south of Batman Province. Palaeolithic chipped stone tools were found during the survey conducted by H. Taskiran in 2004. There is 1 biface tool; 5 cores and 11 flake-blades. The finds are thought to be moved from the top of Nukultalip Hill. General view of the finds showed charactristics of end of Lower Palaeolithic and beginning of Middle Palaeolithic. Code T61/5 [Taskiran 2006:207-208]. |
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