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HALKIDIKI WORTH SEEING PETRALONA CAVE

PETRALONA CAVE
The bejewelled with stalagmites and stalactites Petralona Cave has been developed on the western side of the limestone Katsika mountain (~700 m height) and 300 m above sea level. The Cave was spotted in 1959 by the inhabitant of the adjacent village Philippos Chatzaridis and it became internationally known when the skull of Archanthropus was found by another villager, Christos Sariannidis.

The systematic excavations in the Cave started in 1965 by the founder of the Anthropological Association of Greece Ph.D. professor of anthropology Aris Poulianos. His research proved that Archanthropus (i.e. an archaic Homo sapiens) has an age of about 700.000 years ago, which is the oldest known European man. This chronology is based on the detail analysis of the Cave stratigraphy (until today 28 geological layers have been excavated). Also, it is based on the study of the Palaeolithic tools, as well as the exact diagnosis of the Palaeofauna species, which have been discovered in almost all layers.

Among the fossils of the extinct species found in the Cave lions, hyenas, bears, panthers, elephants, rhinos, megacerines, bisons, and various species of dears and equids are included, as well as 25 species of birds, 16 species of rodents and 17 species of bats.

A considerable aid, in reconfirming the age of the Petralona man is the contribution of the methods advanced by nuclear physics. The material used for such a purpose were bones, argil, stalagmites and ashes. The later are traces of fire - the earliest, which have ever been lightened by human hands on earth.
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ABOUT PETRALONA CAVE
THE HISTORY OF THE RESEARCH IN THE PETRALONA CAVE
THE 40th ANNIVERSARY SINCE THE DISCOVERY OF THE PETRALONA ARCHANTHROPUS’ SKULL
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PETRALONA CAVE PHOTOS

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