General Information

Site Name:

Lakonis 1

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Site Type:

cave

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Chronological Abstract: 

Middle Palaeolithic

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Europe::Southern Europe::Greece

General Location Description:

South Peloponnese, Mani Peninsula, three kilometres northeast of Gytheion.

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  • Latitude (WGS84):
36,772
  • Longitude (WGS84):
22,569
  • Altitude:
0

 

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Additional Content
Lakonis I is a collapsed rock shelter with a floor area of ca. 250 qm. It preserves a sequence of over 7 m of brecciated sediments in the form of a rather steeply inclined and wave-eroded remnant, the longest stratigraphic sequence among the Lakonis localities. It is divided into five Units. Units IV-Ib preserve Middle Palaeolithic lithic assemblages. The lithic material from Unit Ia has been identified as Initial Upper Palaeolithic. (Harvati 2003).

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Excavation at Lakonis I, 2003
View of Larkonis I, 1997