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Agin Deresi |
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Type:
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Habitation Site / Workshop |
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Altitude:
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Region:
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Eastern Anatolia |
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Province:
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Elazig |
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District:
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Agin |
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Village:
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Merkez |
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Investigation Method:
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Survey |
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Period:
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OP AP |
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| Location: Before it was flooded by the Keban Dam Lake; this site was northwest of the city of Elazig; on the Agin Stream which flowed through the district of Agin. There are no records indicating which side of the stream the artifacts were collected from. |
| Geography and Environment: In his 1971 report written shortly after his survey of the site; I.K. Kökten indicated that the region was soon to be flooded. He also reported that there was a rock-shelter in the vicinity. The scale of the site is difficult to establish because no information on the extent of the site and the frequency of the artifacts has been provided. |
| History: |
| Research and Excavation: The site was discovered by I. Kiliç Kökten in his 1969 survey of the areas to be flooded by the Keban Dam Lake. |
| Stratigraphy: |
| Small Finds: Along the Agin Stream; Kökten found pointed Levalloissien scrapers; notched scrapers on flakes; bifaced handaxes and chopper tools all made of grey; white and yellowish flint [Kökten 1971a: 16 fig. 20 and Kökten 1971b:131 fig. 17]. The site is thought to have been used as a habitation area and a workshop. Kökten believes that these artifacts found along the river are similar to those from the Ankara region. In the captions beneath the pictures of his 1971 article; Kökten indicated that the finds date to the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic. |
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