New scientific evidence proves Naxos was inhabited 200,000 years ago
New scientific evidence proves Naxos was inhabited 200,000 years ago
Naxos port. Photo: Wikipedia
22 October 2019 5:43pm
According to new scientific evidence acquired as part of the Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project, Naxos island was inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier humans up to at least 200,000 years ago.
The Stelida Naxos Archaeological project, launched in 2013, is one of the largest ongoing collaborations of its kind involving researchers and scholars from around the world.
The Cycladic island, appears to have been inhabited tens of thousands of years prior to the previously recorded findings, an international research team led by scientists from McMaster University confirms.
The new findings uncovered in a prehistoric quarry are now challenging the known theories on Stone Age migration throughout Europe; historians and archaeologists to this date believed the Aegean Sea to be impassable to Neanderthals and early hominids and believed Mediterranean islands only have been settled for about 9,000 years.
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