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New Neanderthal site found in greece

  • 10-03-2011 4:06am
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    http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/tools-from-mountain-neanderthals-found/story-e6frfku0-1226018780910
    ARCHAEOLOGISTS say they have found hundreds of stone tools that may have been used by some of the last Neanderthals in Europe, high in the mountains of northern Greece.
    The two sites used between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago were found last summer in the Pindos Mountains, near the village of Samarina about 400km northwest of Athens.
    At an altitude of more than 1700m, the Pindos sites are the highest known so far in southeastern Europe - perhaps because nobody had thought of searching so high before, archaeologist Nikos Efstratiou said today.
    Mr Efstratiou believes the Neanderthals were drawn to the water-rich highlands by the animals they hunted, which favoured the open, treeless spaces, and an abundance of flint used for tools.


    Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/tools-from-mountain-neanderthals-found/story-e6frfku0-1226018780910#ixzz1GFwWB25F


    Rather interesting, I wonder if this will prompt more investigations of Possible Sites, Dosent seem to be any reference to any Art pieces tho which is a shame, it'd be cool if wwe could find another flute or some of those Bone Carvings again,


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