A Short Preliminary Retport on The Two Fossil Teeth from The Cave of Karain, Excavated under The Auspices of The Turkisch Historical Society

Authors : Muzaffer Süleyman ŞENYÜREK

Pages : 835-836

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Publication Date : 1949-10-20

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Dr. İ. Kılıç Kökten has brought me for study two fossii teeth he found in his excavabon of the cave of Karain, in the vıcinity of Antalya insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Adalia);. In his note to me regarding these fossils Dr. Kökten gives the followieig information: \`This summer insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(1949);, in the cave of Karain insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Antalya-Yakca viliage);, where I have been conducting- excavations for three years in the name of the Turkish Historical Society, I found a root, the upper part of which is broken, in the I level of the lower grand chamber. I also found a cheek-tooth in the upper level of the thick, cemented kitchen-midden layer containing artifacts of Mousterian II and Aurignacian type and the fossil animal bones in the alcove, which I have called \`Alcove D”of the upper grand chamber of the same cave
Keywords : Mousterian, cave of Karain, Anthropology, Turkish Historical Society