Aras Türkiye Eski Yakın Doğu Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Serkan ŞAHİN

Konular:Arkeoloji

Anahtar Kelimeler:Eastern Anatolia,Malatya,Lower Paleolithic,Middle Paleolithic

Özet: It is thought that in the Pleistocene period, people used the Anatolian peninsula as their migration route while leaving Africa. The Anatolian peninsula was at the center of the roads from Africa to West Asia and Europe and became an important route followed by people and animals living in the Pleistocene period. For this reason, the stratigraphy of the Neogene and Pleistocene sediments of Malatya, which is one of the intersections of these routes in Anatolia, which has rich natural resources in terms of the people of the Pleistocene period, the biogeographical distribution of the fossils, the distribution areas of the people who lived in the Pleistocene, their diet, biological structures and social relations. In order to reveal the feature, a survey was initiated in 2019 and six localities containing traces of Pleistocene era people were identified.

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