DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10410 ISSN: 0003-598X
Koskarlı Cave: excavations at an Epipalaeolithic site in the eastern Black Sea region of Türkiye
Hülya Çalışkan Akgül, Sidar Gündüzalp, Raif Kandemir, Didem Turan, Hasan Umut Kıvrak, Guram Chkhatarashvili, Levent AlnıakExcavations at Koskarlı Cave in Türkiye’s eastern Black Sea region (Trabzon) have identified in situ Epipalaeolithic ( c . 12 900–12 000 cal BC) occupation. As the first systematic investigation of this period in this region, Koskarlı provides a new reference point for exploring the lifeways of Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers and their regional connections.