Site type

Location

Coordinates (degrees)
037.060° N, 030.550° E
Coordinates (DMS)
037° 03' 00" E, 030° 33' 00" N
Country (ISO 3166)
Türkiye (TR)

radiocarbon date Radiocarbon dates (59)

Lab ID Context Material Taxon Method Uncalibrated age Calibrated age References
Hd-10027 bone NA 14C 11800±330 BP 14845–13087 cal BP Weninger 2022
Hd-10027 bone NA NA 11800±330 BP 14845–13087 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hd-10030/10229 bone NA NA 12280±275 BP 15230–13604 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hd-10030/10229 bone NA NA 12280±275 BP 15230–13604 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hv-14375 charcoal NA NA 12350±600 BP 16231–13120 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hv-14375 charcoal NA NA 12350±600 BP 16231–13120 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hv-14374 charcoal NA NA 12550±400 BP 15963–13611 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hv-14374 charcoal NA NA 12550±400 BP 15963–13611 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hv-14376 charcoal NA NA 14000±615 BP 18633–15251 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hv-14376 charcoal NA NA 14000±615 BP 18633–15251 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hd-10556/10424 charcoal NA NA 14160±210 BP 17868–16610 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hd-10556/10424 charcoal NA NA 14160±210 BP 17868–16610 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hd-10036/10119 bone NA NA 14200±500 BP 18619–15850 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hd-10036/10119 bone NA NA 14200±500 BP 18619–15850 cal BP Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
OxA-8406 charcoal NA NA 14600±100 BP 18164–17485 cal BP Ramsey et al. 2002 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
OxA-8406 charcoal NA NA 14600±100 BP 18164–17485 cal BP Ramsey et al. 2002, Erdo?u et al. 2003
Hv-14384 charcoal NA NA 14690±450 BP 18858–16710 cal BP Ramsey et al. 2002 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
Hv-14384 charcoal NA NA 14690±450 BP 18858–16710 cal BP Ramsey et al. 2002, Erdo?u et al. 2003
OxA-8407 charcoal NA NA 15860±100 BP 19410–18919 cal BP Ramsey et al. 2002 Erdoàu et al. 2003 Bird et al. 2022
OxA-8407 charcoal NA NA 15860±100 BP 19410–18919 cal BP Ramsey et al. 2002, Erdo?u et al. 2003

typological date Typological dates (51)

Classification Estimated age References
Epipalaeolithic NA NA
Epipalaeolithic NA NA
Epipalaeolithic NA NA
Chalcolithic NA Albrecht et al. 1992, 131
M-CH NA NA
Chalcolithic NA Albrecht et al. 1992, 131
M-CH NA NA
Neolithic NA Albrecht et al. 1992, 131
Neolithic NA Albrecht et al. 1992, 131
Neolithic NA Albrecht et al. 1992, 131
Epipalaeolithic NA NA
CH NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a
M-CH NA NA
CH NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a
M-CH NA NA
PN NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a
PN NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a
PN NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a
EP NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
EP NA Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003

Bibliographic reference Bibliographic references 

@misc{Albrecht et al. 1992, 131,
  
}
@misc{Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a,
  
}
@misc{Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003,
  
}
@misc{Ramsey et al. 2002, Erdo?u et al. 2003,
  
}
@misc{Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003,
  
}
@article{Vermeersch2020,
  title = {Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database: A Regularly Updated Dataset of the Radiometric Data Regarding the Palaeolithic of Europe, Siberia Included},
  author = {Vermeersch, Pierre M},
  year = {2020},
  month = {aug},
  journal = {Data Brief},
  volume = {31},
  pages = {105793},
  issn = {2352-3409},
  doi = {10.1016/j.dib.2020.105793},
  abstract = {At the Berlin INQUA Congress (1995) a working group, European Late Pleistocene Isotopic Stages 2 & 3: Humans, Their Ecology & Cultural Adaptations, was established under the direction of J. Renault-Miskovsky (Institut de Paléontologie humaine, Paris). One of the objectives was building a database of the human occupation of Europe during this period. The database has been enlarged and now includes Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites connecting them to their environmental conditions and the available chronometric dating. From version 14 on, only sites with chronometric data were included. In this database we have collected the available radiometric data from literature and from other more restricted databases. We try to incorporate newly published chronometric dates, collected from all kind of available publications. Only dates older than 9500 uncalibrated BP, correlated with a "cultural" level obtained by scientific excavations of European (Asian Russian Federation included) Palaeolithic sites, have been included. The dates are complemented with information related to cultural remains, stratigraphic, sedimentologic and palaeontologic information within a Microsoft Access database. For colleagues mainly interested in a list of all chronometric dates an Microsoft Excel list (with no details) is available (Tab. 1). A file, containing all sites with known coordinates, that can be opened for immediate use in Google Earth is available as a *.kmz file. It will give the possibility to introduce (by file open) in Google Earth the whole site list in "My Places". The database, version 27 (first version was available in 2002), contains now 13,202 site forms, (most of them with their geographical coordinates), comprising 17,022 radiometric data: Conv. 14C and AMS 14C (13,144 items), TL (678 items), OSL (1050 items), ESR, Th/U and AAR (2150 items) from the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. All 14C dates are conventional dates BP. This improved version 27 replaces the older version 26.},
  month_numeric = {8}
}
@misc{Albrecht et al. 1992 Thissen 2002a,
  
}
@misc{Albrecht et al. 1992 131,
  
}
@misc{Ramsey et al. 2002 Erdoàu et al. 2003,
  
}
@misc{CalPal,
  title = {CalPal Edition 2022.9},
  author = {Weninger, Bernie},
  year = {2022},
  month = {sep},
  doi = {1010.5281/zenodo.7422618},
  url = {https://zenodo.org/record/7422618},
  abstract = {CalPal is scientific freeware for 14C-based chronological research for Holocene and Palaeolithic Archaeology.},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Open Access},
  howpublished = {Zenodo},
  month_numeric = {9}
}
@misc{CONTEXT,
  url = {http://context-database.uni-koeln.de/index.php},
  note = {Schyle, D. & Böhner, U. 2006. Near Eastern radiocarbon CONTEXT database. https://doi.org/10.1594/GFZ.CONTEXT.ED1}
}
@article{p3k14c,
  title = {P3k14c, a Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates},
  author = {Bird, Darcy and Miranda, Lux and Vander Linden, Marc and Robinson, Erick and Bocinsky, R. Kyle and Nicholson, Chris and Capriles, José M. and Finley, Judson Byrd and Gayo, Eugenia M. and Gil, Adolfo and d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade and Hoggarth, Julie A. and Kay, Andrea and Loftus, Emma and Lombardo, Umberto and Mackie, Madeline and Palmisano, Alessio and Solheim, Steinar and Kelly, Robert L. and Freeman, Jacob},
  year = {2022},
  month = {jan},
  journal = {Scientific Data},
  volume = {9},
  number = {1},
  pages = {27},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
  issn = {2052-4463},
  doi = {10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7},
  abstract = {Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent projects, funded over the past decade, have assembled such databases from multiple regions of the world. These data provide unprecedented potential for comparative research on human population ecology and the evolution of social-ecological systems across the Earth. However, these databases have been developed using different sample selection criteria, which has resulted in interoperability issues for global-scale, comparative paleo-demographic research and integration with paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental data. We present a synthetic, global-scale archaeological radiocarbon database composed of 180,070 radiocarbon dates that have been cleaned according to a standardized sample selection criteria. This database increases the reusability of archaeological radiocarbon data and streamlines quality control assessments for various types of paleo-demographic research. As part of an assessment of data quality, we conduct two analyses of sampling bias in the global database at multiple scales. This database is ideal for paleo-demographic research focused on dates-as-data, bayesian modeling, or summed probability distribution methodologies.},
  copyright = {2022 The Author(s)},
  langid = {english},
  keywords = {Archaeology,Chemistry},
  month_numeric = {1}
}

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:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Albrecht et al. 1992, Thissen 2002a
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Albrecht et al. 1992, Erdo?u et al. 2003
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Ramsey et al. 2002, Erdo?u et al. 2003
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Albrecht et al. 1992 Erdoàu et al. 2003
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: Vermeersch2020
  :bibtex_type: :article
  :title: "{Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database: A Regularly Updated Dataset
    of the Radiometric Data Regarding the Palaeolithic of Europe, Siberia Included}"
  :author: "{Vermeersch, Pierre M}"
  :year: "{2020}"
  :month: "{aug}"
  :journal: "{Data Brief}"
  :volume: "{31}"
  :pages: "{105793}"
  :issn: "{2352-3409}"
  :doi: "{10.1016/j.dib.2020.105793}"
  :abstract: '{At the Berlin INQUA Congress (1995) a working group, European Late
    Pleistocene Isotopic Stages 2 & 3: Humans, Their Ecology & Cultural Adaptations,
    was established under the direction of J. Renault-Miskovsky (Institut de Paléontologie
    humaine, Paris). One of the objectives was building a database of the human occupation
    of Europe during this period. The database has been enlarged and now includes
    Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites connecting them to their environmental
    conditions and the available chronometric dating. From version 14 on, only sites
    with chronometric data were included. In this database we have collected the available
    radiometric data from literature and from other more restricted databases. We
    try to incorporate newly published chronometric dates, collected from all kind
    of available publications. Only dates older than 9500 uncalibrated BP, correlated
    with a "cultural" level obtained by scientific excavations of European (Asian
    Russian Federation included) Palaeolithic sites, have been included. The dates
    are complemented with information related to cultural remains, stratigraphic,
    sedimentologic and palaeontologic information within a Microsoft Access database.
    For colleagues mainly interested in a list of all chronometric dates an Microsoft
    Excel list (with no details) is available (Tab. 1). A file, containing all sites
    with known coordinates, that can be opened for immediate use in Google Earth is
    available as a *.kmz file. It will give the possibility to introduce (by file
    open) in Google Earth the whole site list in "My Places". The database, version
    27 (first version was available in 2002), contains now 13,202 site forms, (most
    of them with their geographical coordinates), comprising 17,022 radiometric data:
    Conv. 14C and AMS 14C (13,144 items), TL (678 items), OSL (1050 items), ESR, Th/U
    and AAR (2150 items) from the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. All 14C dates
    are conventional dates BP. This improved version 27 replaces the older version
    26.}'
  :month_numeric: "{8}"
---
:bibtex_key: Albrecht et al. 1992 Thissen 2002a
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Albrecht et al. 1992 131
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Ramsey et al. 2002 Erdoàu et al. 2003
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: CalPal
  :bibtex_type: :misc
  :title: "{CalPal Edition 2022.9}"
  :author: "{Weninger, Bernie}"
  :year: "{2022}"
  :month: "{sep}"
  :doi: "{1010.5281/zenodo.7422618}"
  :url: "{https://zenodo.org/record/7422618}"
  :abstract: "{CalPal is scientific freeware for 14C-based chronological research
    for Holocene and Palaeolithic Archaeology.}"
  :copyright: "{Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Open Access}"
  :howpublished: "{Zenodo}"
  :month_numeric: "{9}"
---
- :bibtex_key: CONTEXT
  :bibtex_type: :misc
  :url: "{http://context-database.uni-koeln.de/index.php}"
  :note: "{Schyle, D. & Böhner, U. 2006. Near Eastern radiocarbon CONTEXT database.
    https://doi.org/10.1594/GFZ.CONTEXT.ED1}"
---
- :bibtex_key: p3k14c
  :bibtex_type: :article
  :title: "{P3k14c, a Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates}"
  :author: "{Bird, Darcy and Miranda, Lux and Vander Linden, Marc and Robinson, Erick
    and Bocinsky, R. Kyle and Nicholson, Chris and Capriles, José M. and Finley, Judson
    Byrd and Gayo, Eugenia M. and Gil, Adolfo and d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade and Hoggarth,
    Julie A. and Kay, Andrea and Loftus, Emma and Lombardo, Umberto and Mackie, Madeline
    and Palmisano, Alessio and Solheim, Steinar and Kelly, Robert L. and Freeman,
    Jacob}"
  :year: "{2022}"
  :month: "{jan}"
  :journal: "{Scientific Data}"
  :volume: "{9}"
  :number: "{1}"
  :pages: "{27}"
  :publisher: "{Nature Publishing Group}"
  :issn: "{2052-4463}"
  :doi: "{10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7}"
  :abstract: "{Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model
    prehistoric human demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent
    projects, funded over the past decade, have assembled such databases from multiple
    regions of the world. These data provide unprecedented potential for comparative
    research on human population ecology and the evolution of social-ecological systems
    across the Earth. However, these databases have been developed using different
    sample selection criteria, which has resulted in interoperability issues for global-scale,
    comparative paleo-demographic research and integration with paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental
    data. We present a synthetic, global-scale archaeological radiocarbon database
    composed of 180,070 radiocarbon dates that have been cleaned according to a standardized
    sample selection criteria. This database increases the reusability of archaeological
    radiocarbon data and streamlines quality control assessments for various types
    of paleo-demographic research. As part of an assessment of data quality, we conduct
    two analyses of sampling bias in the global database at multiple scales. This
    database is ideal for paleo-demographic research focused on dates-as-data, bayesian
    modeling, or summed probability distribution methodologies.}"
  :copyright: "{2022 The Author(s)}"
  :langid: "{english}"
  :keywords: "{Archaeology,Chemistry}"
  :month_numeric: "{1}"

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