Erhan Tarhan

Hitit University · Department of Anthropology

New bovid material from the Upper Miocene site of Çorakyerler (Çankırı basin, Anatolia, Turkey) is described and compared here. The described taxon is identified as a representative of the stem caprine genus Qurliqnoria, previously known from the peri-Tibetan area exclusively. The stronger horn-core divergence, weaker anterior keel, smoother horn-c...

Turkey is known for the wealth of fossil suids found in deposits of middle Miocene, late Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene levels but material of this family from early Miocene and Palaeogene deposits is rare in the country, one of the few published occurrences being from Şemsettin (Kumartaş Formation, MN 4, Çankiri-Çorum Basin). For this reason, it is...

Uşak - Karabeyli, which is the name of the rich fossil mammalian locality was discovered in the Late Miocene Asartepe formation near the town of Uşak, Western Anatolia during late 1990’s. The preliminary faunal list comprises 7 genus and species of: AVES: Struthio; CARNIVORA: Ictitherium cf. viverrinum; PROBOSCIDEA: Choerolophodon sp.; PERISSODA...

Bu çalışmada Anadolu Geç Miyosen lokalitelerinden ele geçen Suidae ailesi üyelerinin isimlendirmelerinin güncellenmesi amaçlanmış olup, bu fosil kayıtların antropoloji ve paleontolojiye katkıları vurgulanmıştır.

The prehistoric settlements in İzmir have unearthed evidence indicating that human habitation in the vicinity of the modern city dates back 8,500 years BP. Excavations conducted at Yeşilova Höyük yielded stratigraphically distinct cultural layers, spanning from the Neolithic Period (6500 BCE) through to the Roman Period. The burgeoning interest in...

Anatolian peninsula is a geographic land-bridge residing on one of the dispersal routes from Africa to the Near East into Europe. Its distinct geographic location enables it to host hominin groups and serves a pathway as a natural land-bridge allowing the migrations for the terrestrial biota throughout the time. Our leading aim was to discover new...

The species Panthera has always held special significance in the archaeological record because of its scarcity and symbolic meaning in ancient societies. In Anatolian archaeology, these animals are present in assemblages from the Early Neolithic to the Iron Age. Furthermore, there is evidence that leopards still live-in modern-day Ana-tolia. Althou...

The species Panthera has always held special significance in the archaeological record because of its scarcity and symbolic meaning in ancient societies. In Anatolian archaeology, these animals are present in assemblages from the Early Neolithic to the Iron Age. Furthermore, there is evidence that leopards still live-in modern-day Ana-tolia. Althou...

Mammutidae comprise a proboscidean family that originated in Africa during the late Oligocene, dispersed across the Holarctic during the Miocene, and survived in North America until the end of the Pleistocene. Despite their long evolutionary history and wide geographic distribution mammutids are particularly scarce in the Miocene of Eurasia. Here,...

Fossil apes from the eastern Mediterranean are central to the debate on African ape and human (hominine) origins. Current research places them either as hominines, as hominins (humans and our fossil relatives) or as stem hominids, no more closely related to hominines than to pongines (orangutans and their fossil relatives). Here we show, based on o...

The Eşendere Group, identified in the Mordoğan sub-basin on the western edge of the Foça Depression, consists of the alluvial Saip, palustrine Boyabağ and lacustrine Çukurcak limestone formations. The Eşendere Group unconformably overlies the lacustrine deposits of the middle Miocene Hisarcık Formation. The Saip Formation consisting of alluvial fan...

A paleontological surface survey was carried out in 2022 with the goal of identifying new fossil remains in Turkey, which is very rich in mammal fossils. New fossils were identified in İnegöl (Bursa), which was represented by very few fossil specimens in the past. Furthermore, fossils preserved in İnegöl City Museum were also evaluated in this stud...

The results of the surface prospection in Denizli province in 2019 and 2020.

Çankırı/Çorakyerler faunası çağdaşı diğer lokalitelerden farklı türleri içermekte olup yöreye özgü türleri barındırmaktadır. Bu lokalite Geç Valesiyen-Erken Turoliyen, yani 8,5 Milyon yıl eskiye, (MN10-11) tarihlendirilmesi gerektiği anlaşılmıştır. Ele geçen fauna özelliklerinin Sinap, Kayadibi ve Garkın ile benzerlikler gösterdiği, bunun yanı sıra...

Bu çalışmada, Karadeniz’in önemli antik kentlerinden birisi olan Sinop’ta Balatlar Kilise popülasyonu içerisinde 2006 yılında tespit edilen ve 18. yüzyıla ait olduğu düşünülen bir kafatası incelenmiştir. Yapılan makroskobik ve tomografik incelemelerde, ileri erişkin bu bireyin 3. derece bilateral osteodistrofiye sahip olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Simetrik...

Over the years with the increasing number of species, Çorakyerler has turned out to be a reference locality for the Anatolian Late Miocene. In this locality, which has an extremely rich fauna, two materials belonging to the family of Hystricidae have been found. The existence of these members was not known until 2015 and the knowledge of their exis...

In Anatolia, there are many localities dated to the Late Miocene. Many of these localities have been found between 1968-1970 during the Turkish-German Lignite Research Project. Some of the fossils that were found during this project are preserved in Natural History and Paleontology Museums abroad. Çorakyerler, a reference locality for the Late Mioc...

The Çorakyerler vertebrate fossil locality, dating to the late Miocene, islocated along a road in Yapraklı district in Çankırı province in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The altitude of the site is about 745 m. Excavations have been held systematically in this region since 2001. The Çorakyerler vertebrate fossil locality is betweenMN11–12 z...

The Dental Morphology of Corakyerler Hominoids (Late Miocene, Turkey)