Tag: Archeology

The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 3)

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)” →

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«The Greeks: Whence and when?» – Mainstream Scientific responses and present state of Research (Awarded book by the Academy of Athens)

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)” →

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The Theopetra Cave in Thessaly: a 130,000 year old prehistory (Part 1)

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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Handicrafts and artworks from Greece were found in the ruins of ancient Niya, China

The archeological site known as Niya (hereafter referred to as the Ruins of Ancient Niya), which lies deep in the Takla Makan Desert on the southern rim of the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, has been called the Pompeii of the East, owing to Niya having been buried, quite suddenly, as had ancient Pompeii ages earlier. Or so it seems, for no one really knows what caused the residents of Niya to abandon their city in such a panic that they even left their dogs tethered in front of their houses, apparently fleeing for their lives from some unknown-to-us, impending calamity. Continue reading “Handicrafts and artworks from Greece were found in the ruins of ancient Niya, China” →

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Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia?

In Aulis, it was perhaps a fair wind that had to be secured by Iphigenia’s sacrifice, but in ancient Kydonia, on the Kasteli hill of Chania in Crete, it was an earthquake and the chthonic deities that, according to the customs and “logic” of the time, needed to be placated by the ancient Kydonians resorting to human sacrifice(s)… Continue reading “Ritual human sacrifice in the Mycenaean palace of Kydonia?” →

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