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The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece: 2010–2012

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Abstract

Rodafnidia is an Acheulian site on Lesbos Island, in the north-east Aegean Sea. This chapter presents the model that guided Paleolithic investigations on the island, the history of research, and the results of the 2012 expedition of systematic work in the field, which consisted of surface survey and excavation. The typology and technology of lithic artifacts from the surface and the uppermost Unit 1, as well as the first cluster of luminescence dates, firmly place the early component of the site in the Middle Pleistocene. The Acheulian industry derives from fluvio-lacustrine deposits at a locale with abundant fresh-water and lithic resources. Situated in the north-east Mediterranean Basin, an area where research on early hominin prehistory is intensifying, Rodafnidia holds the potential to contribute to Eurasian Lower Paleolithic archaeology and fill the gap in our understanding of early hominin presence and activity where Asia meets Europe.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The members of the 2010 campaign team were Christina Papoulia, Elli Karkazi, Aggeliki Garidi, and Mihalis Spyridakis.

  2. 2.

    The members of the 2012 campaign scientific team were as follows: James Cole, Giorgos Iliopoulos, Athanasios Katerinopoulos, Geoff King (Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris), Andreas Magganas, John McNabb, Ageliki Theodoropoulou (Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Paris), Chronis Tzedakis (University College London), Katerina Vasileiadou; graduate students were as follows: Elli Karkazi, Thanos Rousis, Lena Kouklamani, Eleni Zervaki, Stefanos Fotinis (Univ. of Crete); and the undergraduate students were as follows: Ageliki Garidi, Elina Latsou, Eirini Saloustrou, Vaso Kourkouli (Univ. of Crete), Jeanine Curvers (Katholik Univ. of Leuven), and Roy Waterston (Univ. of York).

  3. 3.

    As the paper goes to print in 2016, four additional seasons in the field have brought to light a larger sample of LCTs and cleavers.

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Acknowledgments

The first year of systematic research at Rodafnidia, Lisvori was supported by the University of Crete, the Secretariat General for the Aegean and Island Policy and the authority of the North East Aegean Region. We are grateful to the Municipality of Lesbos for its support and lab space granted. Doukas and Toula Alvanou and Theodoros Hatzoglou granted us permission to excavate their properties in 2012, and for this they deserve our special thanks. We thank the Editors and anonymous reviewers for the helpful comments and suggestions.

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  1. Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, 74100, Rethymno, Greece

    Nena Galanidou

  2. Centre de Recherche and d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement (C.E.R.E.G.E.), Europôle Méditerranéen de l’Arbois, Avenue Louis PHILIBERT BP 80-13545, Aix-en-Provence, cedex 04, France

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    John McNabb

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    Mirjana Roksandic

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Galanidou, N. et al. (2016). The Acheulian Site at Rodafnidia, Lisvori, on Lesbos, Greece: 2010–2012. In: Harvati, K., Roksandic, M. (eds) Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0874-4_8

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