Gürgürbaba Hill: Lower and Middle Paleolithic sites, Erci？-Van

This research is aimed to reveal fossil humans and to understand the dispersals of early hominins from Africa to Eurasia. It has been understood that the province of Van is located at an archaeologically key position. Geographically, the Eastern Anatolia is a critically important natural land bridge to Eurasia in the Paleolithic period in terms of the study of migration movements of early hominins from Eastern Anatolia to Eurasia or vice versa. In this context, a large number of stone tools (lithic artifacts) are dated to the Paleolithic Period, those have been identified during the researches carried out in Van Province. The research has been concentrated at Gürgürbaba Hill in the north of Ulupamir Village of Ercis？ district. In this project, we have analyzed the technological and typological features of the lithic remains belonging to Palaeolithic which were revealed during the intensive survey of Gürgürbaba Tepesi and were obtained important results with OSL dating techniques, regarding the layers of the site. Gürgürbaba Tepesi has been identified as a late Acheulian assemblage that includes hand axes, large flakes and blades, large cutting tools, Levallois and non-Levallois products, plain flakes and blades. As a result, it is understood that the site has been settled by the Palaeolithic humans from the middle of the Middle Pleistocene (Oxygen isotope 12). The lithic remains from Gürgürbaba Tepesi show similar features with the assemblages from the Levant and southern Caucasus in the late Acheulian period