The theory was that Anatolia, the region in which Ayvalık is situated, and Europe were linked during the last Ice Age, offering early humans a path to cross over via southward island-hopping routes.

Most importantly, the study authors say that the smattering of artifacts along the coastlines of Ayvalık today hints that ...

Many people have one-sided or distorted ideas about what is European. The Würzburg professor Dag Nikolaus Hasse demonstrates this in a book that is now also available in English.