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8,000-year-old Cave paintings found in Türkiye’s İnkaya Cave

8,000-year-old cave paintings found in Türkiye’s Inkaya Cave

A number of cave paintings dating back some 8,000 years have been found in Inkaya cave in the Marmara province of Balıkesir during a field study conducted by Associate Prof. Dr. Derya Yalçıklı from Çanakkale (18th March) University, in 2015. During the same studies, another cave located 5 kilometers away from the İnkaya cave was

İnkaya Cave

Traces of humans dating back 86,000 years have been found in the Inkaya Cave in Çanakkale

During excavations in the Inkaya Cave located within the boundaries of Bahadırlı village, which is part of the Çan district of Çanakkale, traces of human habitation dating back to 86,000 years ago were discovered. Various artifacts such as flakes, scrapers, burins, points, notched tools, cores, and hammerstones, all made from flint, were unearthed during the