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🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic – Neolithic (70,000–6000 BCE) · Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic
Middle Palaeolithic – Neolithic (70,000–6000 BCE) cave of Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic in Antalya Province, Teke Peninsula (c.70000 BCE).
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic (Late Copper Age) · Transcaucasian Chalcolithic (Areni, Sioni, Maikop-related)
North annex of Areni-1 cave with second Chalcolithic winery vat and oldest leather shoe stratum, 4300 BCE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Middle Stone Age to Neolithic (200,000–6,000 BP) · Homo sapiens MS A/MSA/LSA; Oranian Dabban Capsian
Haua Fteah is a 50-m-wide by 20-m-high karst cave at foot of Jebel Akhdar escarpment, Cyrenaica's deep 14-m stratified sequence 200,000–10,000 BP, spanning Middle Stone Age Upper Palaeolithic…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Epipalaeolithic to Early Chalcolithic (c.14,000–5500 BCE) · Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Aceramic Neolithic → Chalcolithic
Lycian karst cave (14 ka) with Epipalaeolithic burials to Aceramic Neolithic herding above Fethiye.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE – 1400 CE) · Kura-Araxes to medieval Armenian
South annex with Chalcolithic finger flutings and secondary grape press pit.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Lower Palaeolithic to Byzantine (500,000 BP–1200 CE) · Tayacian/Clactonian → Acheulean → Mousterian → Upper Palaeolithic
Anatolia's oldest cave (500 ka) at Antalya — Tayacian to Mousterian with Neanderthal and hippo fauna.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic (c.80,000–9000 BP; Neanderthal Layer D c.70–50 ka) · Mousterian Neanderthal → Baradostian → Zarzian → Neolithic
Zagros Neanderthal cave (80 ka) with nine burials including 'flower burial' Shanidar 4.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Initial Upper Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic (c.43,000–17,000 BP) · Early Ahmarian → Aurignacian (Levantine IUP)
Hatay sea cave (43 ka) — Initial Upper Palaeolithic Ahmarian with Nassarius beads.
