Le Moustérien de Grèce à la lumière des récentes recherches

Darlas, Andréas

doi:10.1016/j.anthro.2007.04.001

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“…LU1 to LU5 also contained artifacts from Middle Paleolithic Levallois and discoidal core technologies, including a Mousterian point (fig. S3); on mainland Greece, these products are associated with Neanderthals ( 12 , 39 ). These strata also contained products associated with eastern Mediterranean non-Acheulean flake-based traditions from the early Middle to Lower Paleolithic ( 40 , 41 ).…”

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“…The excavation, artifact analysis, and chronometric program at Stelida provide first evidence for Middle Pleistocene cultural activity in the central Aegean; previously, only adjacent continental Greece and Anatolia were believed to have been inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier hominins ( 12 ). That Neanderthals may have visited Stelida is arguably no great surprise, given the numerous sites with Mousterian assemblages in neighboring southern Greece (three of which also have yielded Neanderthal remains) ( 12 , 39 ). While Naxos was insular for at least some of the Middle Paleolithic, indirect evidence from elsewhere in Greece argues that Neanderthals were capable of short-distance waterborne crossings ( 42 ).…”

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Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin andHomo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals

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We present evidence of Middle Pleistocene activity in the central Aegean Basin at the chert extraction and reduction complex of Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Luminescence dating places ~9000 artifacts in a stratigraphic sequence from ~13 to 200 thousand years ago (ka ago). These artifacts include Mousterian products, which arguably provide first evidence for Neanderthals in the region. This dated material attests to a much earlier history of regional exploration than previously believed, opening the possibility of alternative routes into Southeast Europe from Anatolia (and Africa) for (i) hominins, potentially during sea level lowstands (e.g., Marine Isotope Stage 8) permitting terrestrial crossings across the Aegean, and (ii) Homo sapiens of the Early Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian), conceivably by sea.

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Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin andHomo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals

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“…A glimpse of the scale of this has been provided by the isotopic evidence from a single Neandertal tooth found at the site, which indicated that the individual had spent their formative years within 20 km of the cave (Richards et al 2008). Moreover, the presence of Lapis Lacedaemonius at nearby Kalamakia Cave (Darlas 2007), points to the inclusion of both sites within a similar landscape.…”

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Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece)

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Lakonis I (ca. 100,000-40,000 BP) is a collapsed Middle Palaeolithic cave on the coast of the Mani Peninsula of southern Greece. The site contains three distinctive components: a hearth context, upper bone breccia, and lower bone breccia. The bone breccias contain concreted deposits and large numbers of lithic and faunal materials, though the upper bone breccia preserves more evidence of dumping from hearth features. The hearth context is comprised of hearth lenses interspersed with mixed ashy sediments, which we interpret as the remnants of raked out and trampled combustion features. Bones and lithics in the hearth context have higher rates of burning, and the lithics are smaller and more broken. The large numbers of burned bones are probably not the result of accidental burning or the use of bone as a fuel source, rather they seem to relate to site maintenance. The incorporation of multiple lines of evidence points to two different site maintenance strategies at Lakonis: (1) the intentional burning of food refuse and (2) the cleaning of hearths, and dumping remnant deposits elsewhere at the site. We therefore consider Lakonis I to be amongst the growing list of sites that contain evidence for Neandertal behavioral complexity.

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“…19.6d) and birds contributed to subsistence as well as hunting of land mammals, and these activities must have taken place on land that is now submerged (Lebreton et al 2008;Roger and Darlas 2008a, b). Some of the marine shells were modified to use as tools (Darlas 2007; Douka and Spinapolice 2012) reinforcing the evidence of a strong relationship to the coast and its resources.…”

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Greece: Unstable Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

Galanidou

Dellaporta

Sakellariou

2020

Coastal Research Library

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The submerged archaeology of Greece extends from the Palaeolithic to the early Byzantine period. It offers valuable information on some of the critical themes of Eurasian prehistory: hominin dispersals, settlement patterns, strategies of survival, population movements and sea voyaging, communication and trade, highenergy destructive events and climate change. This overview focuses on the prehistoric record. It includes partly or fully submerged palaeontological sites as well as archaeological sites. All these are testimonies to the more extensive coastal mosaic of biotopes that were available to prehistoric people prior to c. 4000 cal BP in the Holocene and during the cold and arid periods of the Pleistocene. They show coastal and maritime lifeways in dynamically changing landscapes connecting Asia and Europe. They are now located on the Greek continental shelf due to eustatic and isostatic change as well as the heavy imprint of tectonic activity.

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Le Moustérien de Grèce à la lumière des récentes recherches

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin andHomo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals

Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin andHomo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals

Site Use and Maintenance in the Middle Palaeolithic at Lakonis I (Peloponnese, Greece)

Greece: Unstable Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

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