Fossil hunting in the Neolithic: Shells from the Taurus Mountains at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey contains thousands of mollusk shells, among them about 200 fossils. About 25 fossil gastropods and bivalvesoriginate in a Miocene fauna from the Mediterranean Tethys province, and are known from several localities in the Taurus Mountains, dating to the Mioc...

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Published in:Geoarchaeology 2010-05, Vol.25 (3), p.375-392
Main Authors: Mayer, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef, Gümüş, Burçin Aşkım, İslamoğlu, Yeşim
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