Seidi cave
The Seidi Cave ( ancient Greek Σπήλαιο Σεϊδί ) is located southeast of the Kopaïs plain, 2 km east of Aliartos and 4 km east of ancient Haliartos in the ancient landscape of Boeotia in Greece . Ancient Onchestus was 1 km to the southeast . Today the road from Thiva to Livadia runs 100 m north of the cave .
The Seidi cave is actually just a rock overhang that juts 12 m to the north. The prehistorian Rudolf Stampfuß carried out the first excavations in 1941 during the Second World War . He found numerous stone tools and animal bones from the end of the Aurignacia and especially from the Gravettian period and a grave from the Hellenistic period . The excavation was rushed and carried out using outdated methods. No studies of flora , fauna and paleoeconomics were carried out. The finds that Stampfuß had sent to Germany were stored in a parcel labeled "Seidi Höhle excavation, Stampfuß 1941" in Friesack in 1944 and were destroyed in an air raid on January 2, 1944. In 1965 the German-Swiss prehistorian Elisabeth Schmid continued the excavations.
The Upper Paleolithic finds dating from 33,000 to 8,000 BC Were the first to be discovered on Greek soil. The numerous stone tools in front of the residential cave suggest a stone blade manufacture. Such dwellings were the first settlements in Greece. The Pyrgos Cave is 1 km to the west . It was examined by Canadian archaeologists in 1980.
Web links
literature
- Josef Fischer: The early history of Boiotia . 2003, pp. 8–9 ( online )
- Siegfried Lauffer (Ed.): Greece. Lexicon of historical sites from the beginning to the present. CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33302-8 , p. 610.
- Fritz Schachermeyr : The oldest cultures in Greece. , Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart 1955, pp. 49-50
Individual evidence
- ^ Eva Alram-Stern, Angelika Dousougli-Zachos: The German excavations in 1941 on the Visviki-Magula / Velestino. The Neolithic Findings and Findings . P. 38 ( online )
Coordinates: 38 ° 21 ′ 54 ″ N , 23 ° 8 ′ 1 ″ E