Marathousa, Megalopolis - 2025
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
21200
Année de l'opération
2025
Chronologie
Mots-clés
Nature de l'opération
Institution(s)
Localisation
Toponyme
Megalopolis
Megalopolis
Notices et opérations liées
2025
Description
Excavations at Marathousa 1, in the Megalopolis Basin, were conducted under the auspices of the Ephorate of Paleoanthropology and Speleology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, directed by E. Panagopoulou, have brought to light the earliest handheld wooden tools in Greece, dated to ca. 430 ka (MIS12). Asystematic macro- and micromorphological investigation was conducted for the MAR-1 sample of wood remains for signatures of human and other modifications. The assemblage comprises 144 plotted wood pieces excavated from 2015 to 2019. One of the significant finds comes from alder, and shows cut marks from stone tools and rounded areas formed through repeated contact with soil (Fig. 1).
Auteur de la notice
Georgios Mouratidis
Références bibliographiques
A. Milks,M. Ntinou,S. Koutalis,D. Michailidis,G.E. Konidaris,D. Giusti,N. Thompson,G. Tsartsidou,E. Panagopoulou,V. Tourloukis,P. Karkanas, & K. Harvati, Evidence for the earliest hominin use of wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 (Greece), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (6) e2515479123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2515479123 (2026).
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/
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Date de création
2026-01-30 11:03:02
Dernière modification
2026-01-30 11:07:44
Figure(s)
Fig. 1/ Center: Overview of 940/673-39. Fragments 1 through 4 numbered in gray. Cutaway images show (A) Phase 1 carving marks with stop mark, (B) Phase 1 chopping marks, (C) Phase 2 traces identified on the tool consist of fraying of fibres and micro-splintering concentrated at one end of the tool, (D) Phase 1 chopping mark on knot (E) Phase 1 chopping mark on knot and carving marks (F) Phase 1 carving marks with stop marks. Cutaway images taken with Leica M10 stereo microscope, with small white arrows showing working traces.