A Short Preliminary Retport on The Two Fossil Teeth from The Cave of Karain, Excavated under The Auspices of The Turkisch Historical Society

Abstract

Dr. İ. Kılıç Kökten has brought me for study two fossii teeth he found in his excavabon of the cave of Karain, in the vıcinity of Antalya (Adalia). In his note to me regarding these fossils Dr. Kökten gives the followieig information: "This summer (1949), in the cave of Karain (Antalya-Yakca viliage), where I have been conducting- excavations for three years in the name of the Turkish Historical Society, I found a root, the upper part of which is broken, in the I level of the lower grand chamber. I also found a cheek-tooth in the upper level of the thick, cemented kitchen-midden layer containing artifacts of Mousterian II and Aurignacian type and the fossil animal bones in the alcove, which I have called "Alcove D”of the upper grand chamber of the same cave