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  • Shepherd finds Stone Age artifacts in Tunceli, eastern Turkey

    10/02/2020 11:52:35 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    Daily Sabah ^ | September 16, 2020 | unattributed
    According to archaeologists, a 16-year-old boy who stumbled upon a host of old, stone implements in eastern Turkey has landed upon a find that can cast more light on early human civilization. The young shepherd... contacted archaeologists who were working on a nearby dig in the district of Ovacik, in the eastern province of Tunceli, about a set of strange tools he had discovered. Four days of excavation work in the area revealed remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic periods. Archaeologists say they are the oldest examples of a human settlement in Turkey's northeast region... Research is still underway,...