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Aegeus Society For Aegean Prehistory

ARTICLES | 2011

26 February 2012

Στα ίχνη των τελευταίων κυνηγών και τροφοσυλλεκτών της Νοτιοανατολικής Μεσογείου (Following the traces of the last hunter-gatherers of east Mediterranean)

Νίκος Ευστρατίου & Δημήτρης Κυριακού Anaskamma 5 (2011): 53-74.

Abstract

Recent archaeological investigations carried out by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the islands of Lemnos and Cyprus revealed the presence of sites provisionally dated to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene respectively. These campsites seem to belong to hunting and foraging groups which were frequented the islands of the Aegean and Cyprus after the end of the Last Glacial Age 15.000 years ago. The site of Ouriakos on the eastern coast of Lemnos is a particularly rich site with microliths (mainly lunates) of Epigravettian date. The early site of Roudias in Cyprus –which seems to belong to the Akrotiri-Aetokremnos period–, was found in the southern foothills of Troodos constituting the first hunting and foraging campsite found in the interior of the island. Both sites have come to add new valuable data for a particularly important period for the prehistory of the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean region and for which our knowledge has been so far limited.

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