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Daday Çevresi

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Daday Çevresi
Type:
Single Findspot
Altitude:
m
Region:
Black Sea
Province:
Kastamonu
District:
Daday
Village:
Merkez
Investigation Method:
Survey
Period:
ÜP

     


Location: This site is northwest of the city of Kastamonu and south of the town of Daday; on the southern shore of the Gökirmak River. The site; according to Bostanci; is located immediately southeast of the town of Daday.
Geography and Environment: There are several rock-shelters with blocked entrances in this area. Some may actually be whole caves filled with soil. Based on the present day climate and vegetation; Bostanci claims that this region must have been suitable for Palaeolithic habitation. The nearby Daday Stream is an area of tectonic subsidence running east-west which has been bounded to the north and south by dike fractures. The Daday Stream represents the upper reaches of the Gökirmak River. The flat areas with alluvial deposits east and west of the stream are part of the closed basin formed in the Neogaean Period. There are wide strips of alluvial deposit along the stream banks.
History:
Research and Excavation: Bostanci discovered the rock-shelters described above in his 1951 survey of the Gökirmak region. He surveyed the area looking for chipped stone tools and other fragments around the rock-shelters and in the alluvial deposits of the Neogaean basin.
Stratigraphy:
Small Finds: Bostanci's survey yielded a 6x1.8 cm blade which he believes is Aurignacien [Bostanci 1952:140; fig. II.4]. No further information is provided on this blade. In the caption beneath the drawings (figs. IV) of his 1952 publication; Bostanci labels the chipped stone tools collectively as the Gölköy/Daday finds. The editors can only assume that most of these tools are from Daday.
Remains:
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