Franchthi Cave

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Franchthi Cave (or Frankhthi cave, Greek Σπήλαιον Φράγχθη) in the Peloponnese, in the southeastern Argolid, is a cave overlooking the Argolic Gulf opposite the Greek village of Koilada.

The cave was occupied from the palaeolithic c. 20,000 BP through the Mesolithic and Neolithic, being abandoned about 3000 BC (Middle Neolithic).

Obsidian items from the cave have been traced to the island of Melos 80 miles away by sea, which indicates long distance sea travel. Around 5800 BC evidence of domesticated animals and plants (emmer and einkron) appears in the archaeological record at the cave.

[edit] Bibliography

  • William R. Farrand, Depositional history of Franchthi Cave Fascicle 12, Sediments, stratigraphy, and chronology. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press 1999).

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Coordinates: 37°24′48″N, 23°07′35″E

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