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Baran Tepe |
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Artifact Scatter |
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Southeastern Anatolia |
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Batman |
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District:
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Merkez |
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Village:
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Oymatas |
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Survey |
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| Chipped stone fragments are found on slopes and top of a hill overlooking Tigris RÝver; immediate northeast of Sincanli Quarter; southeast of Oymatas Village of Batman Province. The survey that is conducted by H. Taskiran in 2003; yielded 11 fragments which two of them are bifacial tools. This two dragged fragments rather look like chopping tools and t other ones consist of cores and flakes. A pointed Levallois core is typical. The finds are dated to Middle Palaeolithic [Taskiran et al. 2005:336]. Survey code is S61/47. |
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