Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece

Elefanti, Paraskevi; Marshall, Gilbert; Coward, Fiona; Hosfield, Robert; Pope, Matt; Wenban-Smith, Francis

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“…119). Recent regional syntheses (Tourloukis and Karkanas 2012;Elefanti and Marshall 2015;Tourloukis and Harvati 2018) have also contributed to the establishment of a theoretical and methodological corpus, which is essential for contextualizing the data and for assessing the Pleistocene social landscape of the eastern Mediterranean.…”

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Palaeolithic archaeology: a review of recent research

Tourloukis¹

2021

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In contrast to a relatively long history of Palaeolithic investigations in western Europe, research on the Palaeolithic period in Greece has lagged behind considerably. This article reviews the last decade of Palaeolithic research in Greece, with the aim of highlighting key aspects of recent developments in the field. Newly discovered Lower Palaeolithic sites, such as Marathousa 1 in Megalopolis, have offered rare, high-resolution windows into hunter-gatherer adaptations during the earliest-known peopling of the Greek peninsula. Palaeolithic sites in insular settings, exemplified by the latest discoveries in Crete and Naxos, have stirred up intriguing discussions about early seafaring but, most importantly, provide support to a revised view of the role of the Aegean in early human dispersals. Zooarchaeological, palaeoenvironmental and dating analyses of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic materials from new and older assemblages have provided valuable insights that help contextualize the information distilled from lithic industries. In sum, recent excavations, surveys and assessments of new and older collections have together contributed to the compilation of an important corpus of novel and significant data. Palaeolithic Greece is no longer a terra incognita, and it carries the potential to become a key player in understanding early human societies in southern Europe.

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Palaeolithic archaeology: a review of recent research

Tourloukis¹

2021

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“…12). The dated contexts fall between MIS 5e or slightly before, and the rst half of MIS3 (Elefanti & Marshall, 2015). While it is di cult to browse through such a large assortment of scienti c literature, two MP sites stand out with regard to the aims of this article, namely Asprochaliko and Eleftherochori 7.…”

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Discoid technology in between: The Middle Palaeolithic site of Istraishta in the Quaternary context of the Korça Basin, Albania

Ruka,

Bassetti,

BERTOLA

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Neanderthal groups developed different models of mobility and exploitation of resources across their territory: these differences can be linked to various knapping methods and are probably related to adaptative strategies and responses at many ecological and cultural levels. Neanderthals associated with Discoid knapping are known to depend on a context-specific, not planned exploitation of lithic raw materials for daily food procurement and be more mobile than others using different technologies. However, we have no defined data for most of the geographical contexts where this technocomplex was found. This study presents the open-air site of Istraishta, where the Mousterian is characterized by the Discoid technology applied to the reduction of pebbles, thin plates and flakes. The multidisciplinary investigations include the study of the lithic surface collection, of the quality and variety of the lithic raw materials exploited in the site as well as the analysis of the soil which is preserved in localized patches. These new data on the behavioral variability of Neanderthals in the southern Balkans are here contextualized at a macro-regional level, with analogies with many sites of the Adriatic basin mainly framed chronologically between MIS 5 and MIS 3.

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“…The data regarding the Lower Palaeolithic in Greece is intermittent and fragmented both chronologically and spatially and, in most cases, the available information is rudimentary at different levels. With the earliest of fossils consisting of one cranium from the cave of Petralona and an isolated tooth from Megalopolis (see Harvati, 2016 for a review of the palaeoanthropological data), most of the evidence consists of lithics from surface scatters or shallow sub-surface concentrations and is, consequently, marred with unresolved problems of taphonomy and chronology (for a summary and critical review of the evidence see Tourloukis, 2010;Elefanti and Marshall 2015;Papoulia, 2017; 2018 and references therein). Nevertheless, knowledge pertaining to the Greek Lower Palaeolithic has considerably improved in recent years through the implementation of targeted surveys (Strasser et al, 2010;2011;Runnels et al, 2014), excavations (Panagopoulou et al, 2015;Galanidou et al, 2016) and re-evaluations (Tourloukis et al, 2015) of open-air sites that provided important new evidence.…”

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The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Overview of the evidence

Panagopoulou

Tourloukis

Thompson

et al. 2018

Quaternary International

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Marathousa 1 is a Lower Palaeolithic open-air site located in the Megalopolis basin, an area in Southern Greece known for its fossiliferous sediments. Mining activities in the basin uncovered a thick sequence of Middle Pleistocene lacustrine deposits representing the environment of a palaeolake. Marathousa 1 was discovered in 2013 during a targeted palaeoanthropological survey and excavated subsequently by an interdisciplinary team from

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Late Pleistocene hominin adaptations in Greece

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Palaeolithic archaeology: a review of recent research

Palaeolithic archaeology: a review of recent research

Discoid technology in between: The Middle Palaeolithic site of Istraishta in the Quaternary context of the Korça Basin, Albania

The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Overview of the evidence

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