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Franchthi Excavations: 17,000 Years of Greek Prehistory
Indiana University ^ | Last Updated 11 May 1996 | KTG

Posted on 08/22/2004 8:41:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Prehistoric Figurines from Franchthi Cave
by Lauren E. Talalay
Franchthi Cave has produced the second largest collection, after Corinth, of Neolithic figurines from the Peloponnese. Forty-five possible pieces came to light during excavations, and subsequent study classified 24 animal and human images unequivocally as "figurines." Of those, two are dated to the Early Neolithic, one to an Early/Middle transitional phase, eleven to the Middle Neolithic, six to the Late Neolithic and four to the Final Neolithic. This chronological distribution accords well with what is known from the rest of southern Greece where EN figurines are rare. The pattern stands in marked contrast to the evidence of northern Greece where large and extensive collections of EN figurines are reported. Twenty-two of the Franchthi images are ceramic; the remaining two are carved from stone.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; Cheese, Moose, Sister; Education; History; Hobbies; Reference; Science; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aegean; archaeology; argolid; argos; corinth; franchthi; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; greece; greek; history; obsidian
Since this was last updated in 1996, the title should read, "17,008 Years of Greek Prehistory". The secondary link is from the excerpted page link, because there's nothing much on there.
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1 posted on 08/22/2004 8:41:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 08/22/2004 8:47:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: BenLurkin

Heh... I figured you'd enjoy these links culled from Google, regarding purported 11,000,000 (eleven million) year old human remains from Greece. Discovered by a Greek. Reminds me of an old "Peanuts" comic strip... Lucy tells Schroeder that it's a scientific fact that girls are smarter than boys, "and you know who discovered it? WOMEN SCIENTISTS!"

History - Prehistoric Times
... 11,000,000 BC - Archanthropus of Trillia: A fossilized anthropoid shin, a cercis
section (part of the bone after the human wrist) as well as a plethora of ...
www.archaeonia.com/history/prehistory.htm - 7k

INTERVIEW WITH THE PALAEOANTHROPOLOGIST Dr ARIS POULIANOS
... the Petralona archanthropus that prove human originating from the Hellenic land?
Answer: The bone from human shin discovered in the area of Trillia (found in ...
www.ancientgr.com/Unknown_ Hellenic_History/Eng/interview.htm - 19k

... NEW MIOCENE FAUNA AT MICRALONA - TRILLIA, CHALKIDIKI, GREECE (SUMMARY). ... summary article
“Stratigraphy and age of the Petralonian Archanthropus”, Anthropos v ...
www.aee.gr/hellenic/2apoulianos_biogr/ apoul_bibliogr/apoul_bibliogr.html - 63k

... NEW MIOCENE FAUNA AT MICRALONA - TRILLIA, CHALKIDIKI, GREECE (SUMMARY). ... summary article
“Stratigraphy and age of the Petralonian Archanthropus”, Anthropos v ...
www.aee.gr/hellenic/3aee/ anthropos/alpha_beta/anthrp.html - 52k

... POULIANOS ARIS N.,, 1980. VANDALS IN TRILLIA (in Greek). ... POULIANOS ARIS N.,, 1980.
THE ARCHANTHROPUS OF PETRALONA IS AUTOCHTHONOUS (in Greek). ...
www.aee.gr/hellenic/3aee/ anthropos/volumes/anthr1980.html - 53k

NEW MIOCENE FAUNA AT MICRALONA - TRILLIA, CHALKIDIKI, GREECE (SUMMARY). ... THE RECONSTRUCTION WORK OF THE PETRALONIAN ARCHANTHROPUS AND OF THE MAMMALS OF THE CAVE ...
www.aee.gr/hellenic/3aee/ anthropos/volumes/anthr1978.html - 48k

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3 posted on 12/26/2004 2:14:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (There's nothing new under the Sun. That accounts for the many quotes used as taglines.)
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4 posted on 11/04/2009 5:33:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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