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Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding book (a collection of papers on the matter), edited by Hariclia Brecoulaki, Jack L. Davis & Sharon R. Stocker. Continue reading “Mycenaean Wall Painting in Context. New Discoveries, Old Finds Reconsidered”
To date, the biggest and the most complete research programme of the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology (EPSSG) is that of the Theopetra cave. The facts presented in the 1st and 2nd part of the special issue reveal the reasons for which the cave became an object for enhancement through community programmes of the 3rdCommunity Support Framework (CSF). Continue reading “The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 3)”
Here we present the ‘Preface‘, from the extensive English Summary, of the awarded (2013) by the ‘Academy of Athens’ book “«The Greeks: Whence and when?». The mainstream Scientific responses and the present state of Research on the first beginning of the Greek civilisation”, by Theodoros G. Giannopoulos, Crete University Press, 2012. Continue reading “«The Greeks: Whence and when?» – Mainstream Scientific responses and present state of Research (Awarded book by the Academy of Athens)”
Particularly important information also results from the archaeobotanical remains and the radiocarbon study. Continue reading “The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 2)”
Here we post a presentation of the book ‘Journey to the Mythological Inferno: America’s Discovery by the Ancient Greeks‘ by Dr. Enrico Mattievich. Whether close to the truth or not no one really knows, but there are quite a few intriguing indications of ‘historic’ and maybe ‘pre-historic’ connection of the ‘Old’ with the ‘New’ World, way before Columbus stepped foot in ‘West Indies’. Continue reading “‘America Discovered by the Ancient Greeks’, awarded book suggests”
In March 1990, by a happy coincidence, the results of the first three excavation seasons of the Theopetra Cave were published for the first time in the journal Archaiologia in the special issue no 34 on the (then) recent surveys in Thessaly. Rereading that text today, I saw how many things have changed since then but also how many others had been correctly evaluated from the start and are still valid today although perhaps more documented. Specialized studies and analyses in the intervening period, confirmed this excavation’s importance for Greece’s prehistory. Today, twenty-five years later, in the same journal’s present electronic form, the results are briefly given of an on going survey of 27 years… Continue reading “The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 1)”
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