The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey

Güleç, Erksin; White, Tim D.; Kuhn, Steven L.; Özer, İsmail; Sağır, Mehmet; Yılmaz, Hakan; Howell, F. Clark

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00098057

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“…This problematic is also reported from other Late Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblages, especially those knapped from quartz (i.e. Güleç et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 82%

The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the bipolar-on-anvil technique in the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene technology

Hermida

Rodrı́guez

Peña

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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The lithic assemblage of the Pont-de-Lavaud site (Indre, France) shows a technical choice within the Lower Pleistocene European Mode 1 sites, which is defined by the widespread use of the bipolar-on-anvil knapping technique. Although it is traditionally considered an expedient percussion method, in this lithic assemblage a selective technical behavior regarding the reduction methods and raw material is identified. In this respect, different knapping methods are applied in accordance with a combination of the percussion axis and the recurrence of the reduction series. These features are also observed in the archaeological record from other Lower and Middle Pleistocene sites, which are discussed in the text. The role of this knapping technique in the hominin technology is, in our opinion, greater than previously believed. Its implementation cannot be considered as proof of opportunistic or expedient activities. The bipolar-on-anvil technique is applied in different contexts, on different raw materials and as a technical choice or gesture in the reduction sequences. Because of its low technical requirements, it can be considered as a successful technological strategy for overcoming raw material constraints for producing some specific types of pieces. Its ubiquitous presence, both from a diachronic and geographical point of view, is proof of its considerable technical versatility and, hence, of Mode 1 hominin technological flexibility and capabilities.

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“…This problematic is also reported from other Late Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblages, especially those knapped from quartz (i.e. Güleç et al 2009).…”

Section: Categories Of Selected Artifactssupporting

confidence: 82%

The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the bipolar-on-anvil technique in the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene technology

Hermida

Rodrı́guez

Peña

et al. 2016

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…The measurements given by the authors of the specimens that belong to this taxon show a relatively small body size, taking into account the variability of the best known sample of Akhalkalakhi (MT III length between 300 and 330 mm). Other localities, for example Dursunlu in Turkey (1.0 and 0.8 Ma) (Yigit, 1998;Güleç et al, 2009), merit further investigation. Indeed, some teeth seem really characteristic of the species.…”

Section: E Granatensis/e Altidens Group Equus Wuesti and Equus Sumentioning

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Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology of European Equus

Boulbes

Van

2019

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…In south-central Turkey, the site of Dursunlu (Fig. 1) yielded levels with Oldowan lithic tools correlated to a normal-reverse-normalreverse polarity sequence retrieved from a drill core (Güleç et al, 1999(Güleç et al, , 2009 but no information on the procedures adopted to obtain the polarity stratigraphy was provided, and hence this site is also discarded from further consideration. In western Turkey, levels with lithic tools from the Gediz River terraces (Fig.…”

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Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

Muttoni

Scardia

Kent

2018

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Our updated review of sites bearing hominin remains and/or tools from Europe, including new findings from the Balkans, still indicates that the only compelling evidence of main hominin presence in these regions was only since~0.9 million years ago (Ma), bracketed by the end of the Jaramillo geomagnetic polarity subchron (0.99 Ma) and the Brunhes-Matuyama polarity chron boundary (0.78 Ma). This time window straddled the late Early Pleistocene climate transition (EPT) at the onset of enhanced glacial/ interglacial activity that reverberated worldwide. Europe may have become initially populated during the EPT when, possibly for the first time in the Pleistocene, vast and exploitable ecosystems were generated along the eustatically emergent Po-Danube terrestrial conduit. These newly formed settings, characterized by stable terrestrial lowlands with open grasslands and reduced woody cover especially during glacial/interglacial transitions, are regarded as optimal ecosystems for several large Galerian immigrant mammals such as African and Asian megaherbivores, possibly linked with hominins in a common food web, to expand into en route to Europe. The question of when hominins first arrived in Europe thus places the issue in the context of changes in climate, paleogeography and faunal associations as potential environmental drivers and controlling agents in a specific time frame, a key feature of the Galerian migration hypothesis.

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The Lower Pleistocene lithic assemblage from Dursunlu (Konya), central Anatolia, Turkey

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the bipolar-on-anvil technique in the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene technology

The lithic assemblage from Pont-de-Lavaud (Indre, France) and the role of the bipolar-on-anvil technique in the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene technology

Biostratigraphy and Palaeoecology of European Equus

Early hominins in Europe: The Galerian migration hypothesis

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