Franchthi Cave

The Cave of Franchthi (Greek Φράγχθι ) is located on a bay opposite Kilada in the Argolid in the Peloponnese (Greece). She was of the middle Palaeolithic (ca. 30,000 BC) BC in use and is then partially collapsed to about 3000. The oldest traces are spear points and knives from the period 28000-15000 BC In this cave the skeleton of a 1.54 m tall man was discovered, which was about 25 years old and about in the 7th millennium BC lived. This immigration is based on current knowledge, the oldest group of Neolithic farmers, but perhaps only one of many. In the most recent layer of the cave were, inter alia, Bones of domesticated goats and sheep as well as traces of barley and wheat have been found. Finds are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio.

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  • Pictures of the excavation of the University of Indiana
  • Palaeolithic - Neolithic seed remains at Franchthi Cave, Greece
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