Tzines
On the island of Thasos / Greece, the oldest underground mine in Europe was discovered in 1956 by a German geologist in the locality of Tzines . The exploration carried out in 1981 by the Ephorie Kavala and the German Mining Museum Bochum confirmed the mining of red ocher in the Upper Palaeolithic . At that time, the island was still connected to the mainland within the North Aegean Shelf .
Site sketches and pit cracks, pictures of tools (around 500 excavation tools were excavated) and of underground mining areas are published. Your representation at this point was refused by the Greek Ministry of Culture with reference to the law on the protection of cultural heritage (3028/2008).
literature
- Ch. Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, G. Weisgerber: Prehistoric Ocher Mines on Thasos , Thasos Matieres Premieres et Technologie de la Prehistoire a nos Jours, Actes du Colloque International, Limenaria, Thasos, 26-29 / 9/1995, pp. 129-144 , ISBN 2-86958-141-6
- C. Perissoratis, D. Mitropoulos: Late Quaternary Evolution of the Northern Aegean Shelf , Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration, Athens, Greece, Quaternary Research 32, 36-50 (1989)
Coordinates: 40 ° 39 ' N , 24 ° 37' E