Located at the eastern corner of Mediterranean Europe, Greece occupies a critical position
for mammal dispersals to/from Europe, Asia, and Africa and constitutes a potential …

The technological systems and subsistence strategies of Middle Pleistocene hominins in
South-East Europe are insufficiently understood due to the scarcity of well-preserved …

The Balkans are considered a major glacial refugium where flora and fauna survived glacial
periods and repopulated the rest of Europe during interglacials. While it is also thought to …

In this article we present the new open-air Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 2, which
was discovered during a double intensive and targeted field survey in the lignite mines of …

Recent investigations in the upper Lower–Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis
Basin (Greece) led to the discovery of several sites/findspots with abundant faunal material …

In this article, we describe an almost complete macaque mandible from the Middle
Pleistocene locality Marathousa 1 in the Megalopolis Basin of southern Greece. The …

Lithics and cut-marked mammal bones, excavated from the paleo-lake Marathousa 1 (MAR-
1) sediments in the Megalopolis Basin, southern Greece, indicate traces of hominin activity …

Abstract The Neogene-Quaternary continental deposits cover large areas of Greece and
several fossil mammal sites have been discovered in the country. There are several …

The present study describes the sedimentology and formation processes of the
archaeological site Marathousa 1, part of a Pleistocene lignite-bearing succession at the …

Hippopotamidae, an artiodactyl family of African origin, flourished in Europe during the
Pleistocene. In Greece, it is reported from more than 20 continental localities, geographically …