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Karain

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Karain 

a Paleolithic cave near the city of Antalya in Turkey. It was discovered in 1946 and, over the course of several years, was excavated by K. Kökten. Karain contains several cultural layers in which stone implements of the Acheulean, Mousterian, and Aurignacian periods of the Paleolithic have been discovered. Two teeth of fossil man have been found in the Mousterian layer and the layer located between the Mousterian and Aurignacian. One of them belongs to Neanderthal man.

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Liubin, V. P. “Paleolit Turtsii i problema rannego rasseleniia chelove-chestva.” In the collection Sovetskaia arkheologiia, vol. 27. Moscow, 1957.
Kökten, I. Killiç. “Ein allgemeiner Überblick über die prähistorischen Forschungen in Karain-Höhle bei Antalya.” Türk Tarih Kurumu Bel-leten, 1955, vol. 19, no. 75.


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For tourists who are interested in archeology, Antalya Museum, Perge, Aspendos, Side, Termessos ancient cities, and Karain Cave are places to see.
In Central Anatolian villages, mineralogic analyses performed on lung tissue samples as well as street samples revealed large amounts of zeolite (erionite) fibers, whereas in Karain village, these were mixed with small amounts of tremolite and chrysotile fibers.
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