Anonymous Cave at Schistos Keratsini (Pleistocene to of Greece)

Where: Attica, Greece (38.0° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 23.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collected by Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology of Southern Greece in 2000

• The excavation of the Anonymous Cave of Schisto at Keratsini is an ongoing research project of the Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology of Southern Greece. An international team of scholars is working in the field and the laboratory in order to extract all availa-ble information from a variety of remains

Primary reference: F. Mavridis, L. Kormazopoulou, A. Papadea, O. Apostolikas, D. Yamaguchi, Z. Tankosic, G. Kotzamani, K. Trantalidou, P. Karkanas, Y. Maniatis, K. Papagianni and D. Lambropoulos. 2013. Anonymous Cave Of Schisto At Keratsini, Attika: A Preliminary Report On A Diachronic Cave Occupation From The Pleistocene/Holocene Transition To The Byzantine Times. Stable Places and Changing Perceptions: Cave Archaeology in Greece 248-284 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203846: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 26.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
Lepus europaeus Pallas 1778 European hare
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat