Aetokremnos

A collapsed rock shelter on a cliff about 40 m above the Mediterranean near Limassol, Cyprus, representing the earliest well-documented human presence on any Mediterranean island, dating to c. 10,000 cal. BC [1]. The name means "Cliff of the Eagles" in Greek. Excavations yielded remains of over 370 pygmy hippopotami and at least 3 dwarf elephants alongside roughly 1,000 flint artifacts including Mesolithic-type thumbnail scrapers [1]. The association between humans and extinct megafauna is debated: some scholars argue humans hunted the pygmy hippos, while others contend the bones accumulated naturally centuries before human arrival [2].