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Excavation ongoing rock art sites matching “Turkey”

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock shelter

Beldibi Rock Shelter

Epipalaeolithic (14000–9000 BCE) · Epipalaeolithic

Epipalaeolithic (14000–9000 BCE) rock-shelter of Epipalaeolithic in Antalya Province, Kemer (c.14000 BCE).

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art

Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills

Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN

Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills at Adıyaman, Sayburc, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic rock art of the Taş Tepeler PPN tradition, built c. 9000 BCE for bedrock narrative relief human/animal/leopard.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village

Pınarbaşı Höyük

Epipalaeolithic to Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Neolithic

Spring-side rockshelter and village where Epipalaeolithic to PPN aDNA links to Boncuklu and Çatalhöyük.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Sayburç

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN

Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.