Yarimburgaz Cave, one of the oldest settlements in the world with its 400,000-year history, was granted the status of 1st Degree Archaeological-Natural Site in 2001. The cave is one of the settlements on the transition route of Homo erectus, which spread from Africa to Europe.
Yarımburgaz Mağarası
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Studies have proven that important documents from the Paleolithic Age were found in Yarımburgaz.
The data obtained show that Yarımburgaz may belong to Lower/Middle Pleistocene and perhaps Çibanian for now, which reveals that Yarımburgaz is the oldest known settlement in Turkey today and suggests that it may have served in the settlement of the European continent as well.
