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Ayvalık: Forgotten Gateway Linking Anatolia and Europe in the Ice Age

Ayvalık: Forgotten Gateway Linking Anatolia and Europe in the Ice Age

A new archaeological study has placed the coastal town of Ayvalık, Türkiye, at the center of a story far older than its olive groves or islands suggest. Published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, the research reveals that early humans may have reached Europe not only through the Balkans or the Levant, but