Browsing by Author "Acikkol, Aysen"

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The Genetic History of the Southern Arc: a Bridge Between West Asia and Europe
(Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 2022) Lazaridis, Iosif; Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Songul; Acar, Ayse; Acikkol, Aysen; Davtyan, Ruben; Agelarakis, Anagnostis; Reich, David
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra-West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the IndoAnatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian IndoEuropeans from the steppe.
A Middle Paleolithic Settlement From the Northern Levant: the Finds of Uca??zl? Ii Cave
(Istanbul Univ, 2021) Baykara, Ismail; Kural, Ece Eren; Acikkol, Aysen; Agras, Mustafa Kenan
ucagizli II Cave, a Middle Paleolithic site on the Mediterranean coast of Hatay Province, Turkey, is partly collapsed and, based on uranium series dates, is dated between 75,000 and 42,000 BP. This paper examined faunal remains and lithic assemblages from layer Bu (B-upper), obtained during the 2020 excavation season. In layer Bu, typical faunal remains of the Mediterranean have been identified, and for the first time, ornamentation samples have been found in mollusk remains. Lithic assemblages are characterized by Levallois industry, and flake-based production has been determined. Additionally, unipolar Levallois core, Mousterian, and Levallois points and sidescrapers dominate the lithic assemblages. These features indicate that stone tools from layer Bu belong to the Levantine Middle Paleolithic culture and resemble "Tabun C type" industry. This situation shows human dispersal to the northern Levant during the Upper Pleistocene.