(11-03-2023, 09:02 PM)PopGenist82 Wrote:Quote: What makes you think that Anatolia was NOT occupied in the UP by the J's? Or I's? Anatolia seems to have been largely depopulated during the LGM. Pinarbasi might be a purely Mesolithic population with no deeper roots in Anatolia,
Anatolia was also uninhabited before the LGM, with no Gravettian sites, , so your “full of I-J” theory doesn’t work.
Pinarbasi ~ 15000 calBP is properly called Epipaleolithic, or post-LGM
Absolutely wrong.
Human inhabitation in anatolia has been from since OOA.
And there's conirmed upper paleolithic human inhabitation in Anatolia predating the LGM
"In Anatolia. Karain B shows one site with human inhabitation dated to 31,000 bp, with bladelet cores, carinated burins and endscrapers, retouched blades and bladelets (Yalçinkaya & Otte 2000).
(Otte etl al 2007 Arguments for Population Movement of Anatomically Modern Humans) "
"Upper Paleolithic cultures have only been observed in the deposits of Karain B and Üçağızlı cave.
Runnels and Özdoğan had pointed out the existence of Aurignacien of the Upper Paleolithic Period in the coastline of the Black Sea (Runnels&Özdoğan 2001). dated in 40.000 and 28.000 BP. The Karain B Upper Paleolithic Industry shows common characteristics with some of the industries in Europe.
(Taskiran et al 2016)"