Greek islands preserve evidence of ancient hominin activity. At Naxos Stelida, Tristan Carter and colleagues reported tools in deposits at least 200,000 years old; alkaline soil left no human remains. On Lesbos, Rodafnilia yielded handaxes and cleaver-like Acheulean tools. Luminescence dating of the surrounding sediments gives minimum ages across 164,000–476,000 years. The video argues that ice-age land bridges—not boats—explain the finds. The evidence dates the deposits but does not establish how people reached the islands.
Aegean tools record ancient hominins; the video's land-bridge claim is unproven
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- The 2019 Science Advances study led by Tristan Carter reported excavations at Stynthys in the Stelida valley on Naxos.
- The oldest sealed artifact-bearing layer has a luminescence minimum age of about 200,000 years. Tools remained at the trench base when excavation stopped, so the occupation could be older.
- Alkaline soil destroys bone, and no human remains were recovered from Stynthys.
- Rodafnilia on Lesbos yielded an Acheulean assemblage that included handaxes, cleaver-like tools and other heavy stone tools.
- Luminescence dating of sediments surrounding the Rodafnilia artifacts gives minimum ages spanning 164,000 to 476,000 years; the tools themselves could be older.
- Lowered seas may have exposed a land route between Lesbos and Anatolia, but the artifacts do not establish how people reached the islands. A mainland land bridge to Naxos is not demonstrated.
- The video argues that ice-age land bridges, rather than boats, brought hominins to the islands; that is the video's interpretation, not an established finding.
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