. . .There’s a new old kid in town. Theopetra Cave is a limestone cave located in Theopetra village of Meteora municipality, Thessaly, Greece. It is situated on the northeast side of a limestone rock formation that is 3 km south of Kalambaka.
The discovery and ongoing study of Theopetra Cave in Thessaly, Greece, is incredibly exciting for archaeologists and paleoanthropologists because it offers a remarkably continuous and comprehensive record of human occupation spanning over 130,000 years, bridging critical periods of human prehistory.
Theopetra Cave boasts one of the longest and most unbroken archaeological sequences in Greece, and indeed, in Europe.
Its deposits cover human presence from the Middle Paleolithic (around 130,000 BC), through the Upper Paleolithic, the Mesolithic, and all the way to the end of the Neolithic period (around 4,000 BC). This continuous record is exceptionally rare and invaluable.
It allows researchers to study human adaptation and cultural evolution through various climate changes and technological shifts within a single, well-preserved site. Read more here courtesy of Unionrayo.com
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