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Deringatga Magaralari Üstü

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Deringatga Mağaraları Üstü
Type:
Artifact Scatter
Altitude:
m
Region:
Southeastern Anatolia
Province:
Batman
District:
Merkez
Village:
Kuyubasi
Investigation Method:
Survey
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It lies on a high hill on top of Deringatga Caves near Batman motorway; about 2 km southeast of Kuyubasi Village south of Batman. The hill is ploughed and being used as a ield and there is an other field southeast of it. Palaeolithic chipped stone tools were found during the survey conducted by H. Taskiran in 2004. The finds are dated to the end of Lower Palaeolithic and Middle Palaeolithic. Code T62/3 [Taskiran 2006:209].
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