Where: Greece (37.4° N, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 22.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Weighted mean of several optically stimulated luminescence dates

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; fine-grained, brown, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• The lithic assemblage (n=122) is composed of flakes and flake fragments, core fragments and chunks (Figure 6). Retouched tools are rare. The main raw material is red and brown radiolarite, followed by grey and black flint, limestone and quartz. Platforms are mainly plain, cortical or dihedral, and they indicate hard hammer percussion. Technological traits suggest a relatively simple operational sequence, probably aiming at the production of flake blanks. Flakes might have been used directly for cutting, without further modification.

Preservation: anthropogenic

Primary reference: E. Panagopoulou, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson, A. Athanassiou, G. Tsartsidou, G. E. Konidaris, D. Giusti, P. Karkanas, and K. Harvati. 2015. Marathousa 1: a new Middle Pleistocene archaeological site from Greece. Antiquity 343 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187637: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.08.2017, edited by Matthew Clapham

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