Tag Archive for 'Marathousa 1'

An artist’s impression of a Marathousa 1 woman producing a digging stick from a small alder tree trunk with a small stone tool. Image credit: G. Prieto / K. Harvati.

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Handheld Tools are Earliest Ever Found

Jan 27, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists say they have discovered the ‘earliest known handheld wooden tools’ at the Middle Pleistocene site of Marathousa 1 in Greece. An artist’s...

Panoramic view of the elephant bones; the plaster-jacket in the background covers the skull of the straight-tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus). Scale – 50 cm. Image credit: Eleni Panagopoulou et al.

Marathousa 1: Archaeologists Find Paleolithic Elephant Butchering Site in Greece

Nov 25, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of Greek and German archaeologists has discovered a 300,000 to 600,000 year old elephant butchering site near the modern-day city of Megalopolis,...