Photos: Paleolithic chopper from Balitepe

 

A Lower Paleolithic chopper from Balitepe, NW Turkey.

Drawing: © Ludovic Slimak

Photos: "Micro" choppers from Balitepe

 

Two small sized choppers from the lithic industry of Balıtepe.

Drawing: © Ludovic Slimak

Photos: Paleolithic choppers from Kustepe

 

Lithic industry of Kuştepe is dominated by choppers. Bottom right: chopper having batterings on its surface.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Paleolithic choppers and chopping tools from Yatak

 

Yatak is the only Paleolithic site in Turkish Thrace which yields numerous chopping tools. There are not very much chopping tools in the other sites detad to Lower Paleolithic in the region.

Top left: chopper
Top right: a kind of biface which does not seem like typical Acheulean hand axes
Middle: heavy chopping tool
Bottom left chopping tool
Bottom right: chopping tool

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer

Photos: Chopper from Yarimburgaz Cave

 

A chopper from Yarimburgaz Cave. Photo taken at Istanbul Archaeology Museum.

Photo: © Berkay Dinçer