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The Franchthi Cave – Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic (Argolid, Greece)

Problems of cultural continuities and discontinuities

Vortrag von Catherine Perlès (Université de Nanterre)

 08.11.2017

Franchthi Cave, overlooking the Argolic Gulf opposite the village of Koilada in southeastern Argolis, Greece, has been excavated by the University of Indiana from 1967 to 1976. The cave was occupied from the Upper Paleolithic circa 38,000 BP (and possibly earlier) through the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, with occasional short episodes of apparent abandonment. Last occupied around 3,000 BCE (Final Neolithic), it is one of the very few settlements in the world that shows nearly continuous human occupation for such an extended period of time, and is one of the most important and thoroughly studied sites from the stone age in southeastern Europe.

 

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