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Dirrejan Sirti |
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Artifact Scatter |
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Southeastern Anatolia |
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Batman |
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Merkez |
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Village:
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Kesmeköprü |
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Survey |
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| It lies on a ridge 1 km north of Tigris River; 1.5 km northeast of Kesmeköprü Village; southeast of Batman. Palaeolithic chipped stone tools were densely found during the survey conducted by H. Taskiran in 2004. There are 10 biface tools; 12 cores and 14 flake-blades among the finds. They are generally dated to Lower Palaeolithic and partly Middle Palaeolithic. Code T62/5 [Taskiran 2006:209-210]. |
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