Rodafnidia

Rodafnidia ( Greek Ροδαφνίδια ( n. Pl. )) Is an archaeological site on the Greek island of Lesbos near the village of Lisvori. Rodafnidia contained the oldest artifacts in Greece. The early settlement of the island is likely to have occurred during one or more of the cold periods, because a drop in sea level of 50 m is enough to make the island a peninsula of Asia Minor . The open-air site extends over an area of ​​4 ha . The lion's share of the artifacts were on a hill that is quite steep on the south and west sides, while the other sides, especially the north side, have a slight slope. There are olive groves there today.

The lay report of Paleolithic artifacts in 2000 resulted in an initial investigation in 2009, which was followed by a survey the next year. The systematic investigation was carried out in 2012, excavations reached a depth of 2.8 m.

The devices and their preliminary stages consisted of flint and andesite ; 705 of them were discovered in 2012 alone. The age of the oldest pieces could be determined to be 258,000 ± 48,000 years. The tool technology, however, points to a significantly older age, similar to Kaletepe Deresi 3 or even the Olduwai sites.

literature

• Rodafnidia, Lesvos, Greece; Excavation and discoveries from a Lower Paleolithic site
• Nena Galanidou, Constantin Athanassas, James Cole, Giorgos Iliopoulos, Athanasios Katerinopoulos, Andreas Magganas, John McNabb: The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece: 2010–2012 , in: Katerina Harvati , Mirjana Roksandic: (Eds.): Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia , Springer, 2016, pp. 119-138, here: p. 135 ( academia.edu ).
• Nena Galanidou, James Cole, Giorgos Iliopoulos, John McNabb: East meets West: the Middle Pleistocene site of Rodafnidia on Lesvos, Greece , in: Antiquity 87 (2013).
• Nena Galanidou (Νένα Γαλανίδου): Αναζητώντας τους πρώτους κατοίκους κατοίκους του Αιγαίου: Η θ παλαιολιθιακή αναλαιολιθιακή ανασυσίβτοιυαί βροιναφή βτοσυαί βροσυαί βτοσυαή βτοσυαή βτοσυαή βτοσυαή βτοσυα βτοσυαΡ βτοσυα. (PDF Online) In: Magdalini Alvanou (Μαγδαλήνη Αλβανού) (Ed. :): Νησιωτικές Ταυτότητες. Η συμβολή της Γενικής Γραμματείας Αιγαίου και Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής στην έρλευνα καιανλλευνα καιτ αεοποποπο άτιυς γιπυσο ύτιυς γιπυυ ύτιυς γοποσο ύττυς γοποσο ύτιυς. Mytilini 2013, pp. 15-17.
• Χ.Β. Χαρίσης, P. Durand, Μ. Αξιώτης, Τ.Β. Χαρίσης: Ίχνη παλαιολιθικής εγκατάστασης στη Λέσβο. (PDF Online) In: Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες. Number 76, September 2000, pp. 83-87 (for example: Ch. B. Charisis, P. Durand, M. Axiotis, TB Charisis: Traces of Paleolithic Settlement on Lesbos).

supporting documents

1. ↑ Vangelis Tourloukis, Katerina Harvati: The Palaeolithic record of Greece: A synthesis of the evidence and a research agenda for the future , in: Quaternary International, February 9, 2017, pp. 1–18, here: pp. 2–4 ( academia.edu ).