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The discovery of D\u00fcl\u00fck was one of the earliest Palaeolithic discoveries in Turkey made in the founding times for palaeoanthropology and prehistoric archaeology in the country. After 1938 many important researchers in prehistory and palaeoanthropology somehow visited or worked here at D\u00fcl\u00fck. If we try to list the researchers who worked at D\u00fcl\u00fck and who published material from here might well show the importance of D\u00fcl\u00fck for prehistory in Turkey: \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helmuth Theodor Bossert, Halet \u00c7ambel, \u0130smail K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 K\u00f6kten, Enver Ya\u015far Bostanc\u0131, Refakat \u00c7iner, Jean Perrot, Angela Minzoni-D\u00e9roche, I\u015f\u0131n Yal\u00e7\u0131nkaya, and Mehmet \u00d6zdo\u011fan\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Almost every prehistorian visited D\u00fcl\u00fck, however these researchers left many unsolved questions to us like how old are these tools, what was the climate and environment like here during the Palaeolithic\u2026 Many of these researchers were specialized in stone tools, and they collected many tools from here, but it is interesting that one of the most important questions about D\u00fcl\u00fck is still about the stone tool technology, since early researchers only collected hand-axes and typologically beautiful artefacts rather than focusing on the understanding of the lithic technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1947 K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 K\u00f6kten wrote: \u201cWe have classified the tools that are quite plenty and become heavy in a room where we are guests in the village. The axes are larger and more typical than any stone axes we have ever had<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1962 Enver Bostanc\u0131 wrote: \u201cD\u00fcl\u00fck village became famous with its Lower Palaeolithic tools. Researchers who stop by here could always find new tools.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1988, Angela Minzoni-D\u00e9roche wrote \u201cthe surface collecting was never done systematically, nor are there any maps showing the places where the collection was done; as a result, the collection of Lower Palaeolithic tools was apparently limited to hand axes, neglecting other tools.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, all researchers were right about what they said: D\u00fcl\u00fck artefacts are very typical, we still find thousands of them on the hills of the village and no systematical work was done here despite many researchers have worked here between 1938 and 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2009, I visited D\u00fcl\u00fck for the first time. There was no house on top of Boynuzlukaya and the dirt road was not reaching to Cim\u015fit Tepe at that time. Within the last decade these have changed, now factories and roads surround D\u00fcl\u00fck. In 2019 after almost 30 years of silence we restarted the Palaeolithic research at D\u00fcl\u00fck. Our aim is to systematically research this very important Palaeolithic site, define the lithic technology better, understand the hominin behaviours, and more importantly date the Palaeolithic occupations here. We know that we are stepping on the footprints of Turkish palaeoanthropology pioneers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Written by: Ass. Prof. Dr. Berkay Din\u00e7er, Istanbul University, Department of Anthropology<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep Updated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n D\u00fcl\u00fck is one of the most important open air Palaeolithic sites in Turkey. Muine Atasayan discovered it in 1938. She visited D\u00fcl\u00fck village and Roman tombs near it in 14th February 1938 with students from archaeology and anthropology departments from Ankara University. At that day, she discovered the first Palaeolithic tools in the area. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[210,212,214,215,216,257,218,258,259,221,222],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doliche-diaries-tr","tag-ancient-tr","tag-archaeology-tr","tag-doliche-tr","tag-excavation-tr","tag-gaziantep-tr","tag-lithic-tr","tag-munster-tr","tag-palaeolithic-tr","tag-stonetools-tr","tag-turkey-tr","tag-wwu-tr"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/doliche-diaries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fig-3.jpeg?w=1024\")
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