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sites gona rkey Accepted 15 July 2008 span an interval between roughly 29,000 and 41,000 (uncalibrated) radiocarbon years BP. Lithic assemblages can be assigned to two major chronostratigraphic units. The earliest assemblages corre-marine shell) indicate that the sequence of layers in Uçağızlı Cave represents the temporal interval between roughly 41,000 and 29,000 uncalibrated radiocarbon years BP. Two principal cultural components are represented in the site. The earliest of these (Kuhn et al., 1999, 2004) corresponds to the so-called Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) phase, equivalent to ‘‘transitional’ ’ or Emirian industries previously identified in other Levantine sites to the south and ornaments. The results obtained thus far bear on a number of current questions in Levantine prehistory, including the relation-ship between the IUP and Ahmarian technocomplexes, the role of ornamentation in early Upper Paleolithic cultures, and dietary change in the late Pleistocene. The site in historical contex