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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Carter T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6795523 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20191016 10
We present evidence of Middle Pleistocene activity in the central Aegean Basin at the chert extraction and reduction complex of Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Luminescence dating places ~9000 artifacts in a stratigraphic sequence from ~13 to 200 thousand years ago (ka ago). These artifacts include Mousterian products, which arguably provide first evidence for Neanderthals in the region. This dated material attests to a much earlier history of regional exploration than previously believed, opening the ...[more]