Mobility and Settlement Pattern of Middle Paleolithic Assemblage in Hatay

Abstract

With the increasing ethnological research, many models are created about hunter-gatherers in lifestyles and daily activities. From the beginning of the 1980s, these models were applied on prehistoric communities. In order to create of those models from past, material culture remains of people who lived in this period were examined.With the help of those models, the information about motilities’ of past people lived in Paleolithic period and the evidence such as settlement pattern was reached. In this study, mobility and settlement patterns of Middle Paleolithic Caves, Üçağızlı II, Merdivenli and Tıkalı at Hatay were investigated. As a result of this study past people lived in the Middle Paleolithic period in Hatay, preferred longand short-term settlements, the implementation of logistics and residential mobility were generated.

Keywords

• Mobilite
• Yerleşim Sistemleri
• Orta Paleolitik
• Hatay
• Anadolu