Greek islands reveal deep early human presence! Naxos Stelida: tools 200,000+ years. Lesbos Rodafnilia: Acheulean toolkit to 476,000 years. Ice age land bridges, not boats.
Aegean island sites reveal human presence during ice age land bridges up to 476,000 years ago
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- On Naxos at a twin-peaked hill called Stynthys with a thick chert seam, Tristan Carter and his team published the site in Science Advances in 2019
- The oldest sealed layer of tools at Stynthys dates to at least 200,000 years; the trench bottom still produced artifacts when excavation stopped
- Alkaline soil on Naxos destroys bone, so no human remains were recovered at Stynthys
- On Lesbos at the site of Rodafnilia, archaeologists found a complete toolkit of handaxes, cleavers, and heavy stone tools
- Luminescence dating at Rodafnilia yielded minimum ages of between 164,000 and 476,000 years
- Lesbos is separated from Anatolia by two shallow straits; a 50 m sea level drop would close the eastern strait, allowing people to walk across
- The Naxos evidence is interpreted as consistent with ice age land connections rather than necessarily proving boat-building at 200,000 years ago
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