Area 58
Main Information
| Area ID | 58 |
| Site |
Theopetra-Cave |
| Area type | cave or rockshelter |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Thessaly/Reingruber: Early Neolithic: 'Protosesklo' Thessaly/Reingruber: Middle Neolithic: 'Sesklo' Thessaly/Reingruber: Late Neolithic: Tsangli, Arapi |
| Dating method | material culture radiocarbon dating |
| Radiocarbon dated | None |
| Earliest date: Lab Number | |
| Earliest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Earliest date: Calibration | None |
| Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Earliest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Earliest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Earliest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Earliest date: Dated by | |
| Latest date: Lab Number | |
| Latest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Latest date: Calibration | None |
| Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Latest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Latest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Latest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Latest date: Dated by | |
| Period Reference | |
| Comment | |
| Settlement type | None |
| Settlement structure | |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape | |
| Settlement building technique | |
| Settlement archaeological features | |
| Cave/rockshelters type | cave |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of graves/human remains | |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of occupation |
fireplace pit stone setting |
| Quarry exploitation type | None |
| Quarry raw material | |
| Cemetery/graves topography | |
| Cemetery/graves mortuary features | |
| Grave: number of graves | |
| Grave type | |
| Grave: type of human remains | |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | |
| Grave: age groups | |
| Grave: sexes | |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | None |
| Grave: disturbance of graves | |
| Description | The oldest layers found in the cave are from the Middle Palaeolithic and are 40 000 years old. Among the finds from this period were flint-tools in Levallois technique, bone-tools, a tooth from a cave bear and carbonized seeds. A complete human skeleton was found in a palaeolithic layer which is 14 500 years old. |
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