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| Location: This site is located north of the city of Kayseri; by the highway running between Felahiye and Kayseri; near the village of Barsik. The site lies close to the Kizilirmak River; in the gravely fill that accumulated in the dried stream bed of a small stream incised into the terrace 40 m above the present day level of the Kizilirmak Valley. The name Barsik is probably a deviated form of Bagirsak; from the nearby Bagirsak Baglari Vineyards. |
| Geography and Environment: The chipped stone tools described below were found clustered in an old stream bed that lies on a terrace 40 m above the level of the Kizilirmak River today. This terrace was probably where the river flowed in the Pleistocene. Erdbrink and van Heekeren assign this terrace to the Lower Pleistocene. |
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