Beldibi Mağarası
Beldibi Cave
Useful Information
History
Description
This small cave, what remains after the construction of the highway and the
tunnel, is a shelter, a overhanging cliff face.
Still it is an important site with extraordinary cave paintings and an
excavation which revealed six layers of cave sediments, rich in prehistoric
remains.
Fintstone tools from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic Era were found.
The paintings, abot 9,000 years old, show human figures, mountain goat and deer.
Extraordinary is the depiction of a jurt, a round tent which was
obviously used by those people.
Earthenware, also 9,000 years old, which was discovered during the excavations,
is now in the archaeological Museum of Antalya.
See also
Karst cave,
shelter
