New Epipalaeolithic sites in the southeastern Black Sea area and a question about the marine network of lunates with bipolar retouched arcs makers
Journal: Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Academic Data Management System
Year: 2023

New finds at the sites of Koskarlı and Kaledere caves near Trabzon have shown a connection between these sites and finds of bipolar retouched lunates. Such lunates are known from the Near East (Late Natufian Culture), Antalya and Cappadocia (Karain B сulture), the east coast of the Aegean Sea, Lemnos Island, the Sea of Marmara, and the Crimea. All known sites with lunates are associated with the Late Pleistocene. A study of the sites of Koskarlı and Kaledere has shown that the technology of bipo