A New Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Facies at Belbaşı rock shelter on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia

A New Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Facies at Belbaşı rock shelter on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia

The rock shelter at Belbaşı is situated about five kms. from the Beldibi rock shelter and is on the western side of the bay of Antalya. It is approximately 300 metres above sea level and is at the head of a shallow valley which runs down to the sea and is covered with pine trees. The new coastal road which has recently been completed passes near the Belbaşı rock shelter but it can only be reached on foot and is an hour's climb from the road. I discovered this rock shelter during the season of 1959 but the first opportunity I had to make a sounding was in September 1960. The journey from Antalya can also be made by motor-boat and this takes about three hours. Belbaşı is a narrow pass through which ran an old Roman road leading to the interior of Lycia. At the top is a small plateau which has been cleared of trees and cultivated by the present-day villagers. On the north-eastern side of this plateau the mountain rises up steeply again and a rock shelter has been formed in the cretaceous limestone which has emerged by erosion. The rock shelter faces due south and is in the centre of a wooded area which must have been very suitable for hunting in prehistoric times, as it is to-day, and mountain goats, deer, wild boar, etc. are still to be found. The general position is more sheltered than at Beldibi.
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  • ISSN: 0041-4255
  • Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 3 Sayı
  • Başlangıç: 1937
  • Yayıncı: Türk Tarih Kurumu
Sayıdaki Diğer Makaleler

YOSİF ABGAROVİÇ ORBELİ : Sinkronistiçeskie Tablitsi Hıdjrı i Yeveropyiskogo Letoiscislymiya جداول اسودل الزات اسبرين الى الزات الميلادية Sovyetler Birliği Bilimler Akademisi Şarkiyat Enstitüsü, Moskova, 1961. [Kitap Tanıtımı]

Suat SİNANOĞLU

SALAVILLE, SÉVÉRIEN VE DALLEGGIO, EUGÉNE, Karamanlidika, Bibliographie analytique d'ouvrages en langue turque imprimés en caractéres grecs, I, 1584-1850, (=Karamanlidika, Yunan harfleri ile Türk dilinde basılmış kitaplann analitik bibliyografyası, I 1584-1850), Collection de l'Institut Français d'At

Semavi EYİCE

DR. ERNEST EDMONDSON RAMSAUR, JR., The Young Turks, Prelude to the Revolution of 1908, S. x11-1-18o, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1957. [Kitap Tanıtımı]

Fevziye A. TANSEL

Uriel Heyd, Ottoman Documents On Palestine, 1552-1615, Oxford University Press, 1960. [Kitap Tanıtımı]

Fevziye A. TANSEL

Konya, Karaman ve Civarı, Akhisar, Manisa, İzmir, Aydın ve Edirne'de Tetkiklerimiz Esas Noktaları Üzerine Bir Gezi Raporu

Süheyl ÜNVER

Belbaşı Kaya Sığınağında Bulunan Üst Paleolitik ve Mesolitik Endüstri

Enver Y. BOSTANCI

MOUTSOPOULOS, NİKOLAOS K: To arkhontiko tou sior Manolake ste Beroia (=Karaferye'de Manolaki evi), Atina 1960 (Zygos dergisi, sayı 56-57'den ayrıbasım), 6 s. metin. [Kitap Tanıtımı]

Semavi EYİCE

C. COUKIDIS : Λεξιλόγιον Ελληνικών Λέξεων Παραγομένων έκ τής Τουρκικής = Türkçeden Geçme Yunanca Kelimeler Sözlüğü, Atina, 1960. [Kitap Tanıtımı]

Fevziye A. TANSEL

A New Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Facies at Belbaşı rock shelter on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia

Enver Y. BOSTANCI

Basil Gray: La Peinture Persane, Genève ve 1961 Skira, 191 pages, 80 coloured miniatures, general index, index of MSS, chronological bibliography, map. [Kitap Tanıtımı]

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