KERATSINI - 2009
Informations Générales
Numéro de la notice
1759
Année de l'opération
2009
Chronologie
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Notices et opérations liées
20082009
Description
Keratsini, Aigaleo. F. Mavridis (EPSNE) and L. Kormazopoulou report the discovery of traces of the very earliest inhabitants of Attica, dated by C14 to the 11th millennium, in a cave in Keratsini on the Southwest of Mt Aigaleo in the course of excavations begun in 2006. Evidence has been discovered for hunter-gathers at the cave site from the upper Paleolithic through to the Mesolithic. A 2nd phase of occupation between the Middle Neolithic and Early Bronze Age has produced tools manufactured from radiolarite and various forms of flint. Animals found included hare, deer and a species of now-extinct horse. Plant remains included wild cereals and pulses. Terracotta figurines from the Late Archaic − Hellenistic periods indicate later religious use.
Auteur de la notice
Robert PITT
Références bibliographiques
Ethnos (27/02/09); AR 55 (2008-2009), 5.
Date de création
2011-01-25 00:00:00
Dernière modification
2023-10-06 11:32:53