According to groundbreaking archaeological evidence, Neanderthals and early humans are now believed to have inhabited Naxos 200,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought, according to greekreporter.com.
In 2021, a team of US, Canadian, and Greek archaeologists announced the discovery of stone tools on the island of Naxos which have been proven to go back at least 200,000 years. Naxos is a Cycladic Greek island situated in the very middle of the Aegean Sea.
The tools, according to the team of Tristan Carter of McMaster University, demonstrate that somehow, both Neanderthals and early humans discovered a way to reach this island—and subsequently stayed in the region for some time.
Neanderthals were an extinct species of the genus Homo that inhabited Europe, the Near East, Middle East, and Central Asia between 230,000 and 40,000 years prior to the present during the late Middle Pleistocene and most of the Upper Pleistocene.
Paleogenetic studies indicate a common origin for modern humans and Neanderthals, along with hybridizations between the two hominin species, in at least two places, namely the Near East and Western Europe, and times.
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