Öz In Fcbruary 1959, undcr the auspices of the Faculty of Lcttcrs, Ankara University, I undcrtook palacoanthropological and prehist- oric researches on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia bctvveen Antalya and Marmaris and in the province of Muğla1. The chicf aim of thcsc researches was to takc soundingsin variouscavcs and rock shelters vvhich I had observed in 1956, whcn I was a member of a joint European-Turkish geological, palaeontological and palacoanthropo­ logical cxpcdition vvhich was investigatirg the Southern coast ofTurkcy betwccn Antalya and İzmir.2 Among the places vvhich had particularly