BRYN MAWR COLLEGE

Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology 209:
The Evolution of Civilization in the Aegean

| Home | Assignments | Special Sessions | Bibliography |



TIMELINE OF THE STONE AGE IN THE AEGEAN, after Runnels 1995.
. GREEK SITES EUROPEAN NOMENCLATURE MODERN HUMANS
400,000 B.P
Rhodia (Larissa)
Homo erectus
LOWER ACHEULIAN 
300,000 Petralona
/
CLACTONIAN archaic homo sapiens
PALAEOLITHIC 200,000
125,000
Lakonia
Kokkinopolis
<b r e a k ?>
Neanderthal/other archaic homo sapiens

T.L. dateAsprochaliko

AFRICA
100,000 Near East 
MIDDLE Mousterian  52,000
Levallois
Europe
50,000
40,000 Peneios
PALAEOLITHIC 32,000 Franchthi
30,000 <break?>
28K modern humans
25,000 Franchthi Aurignacian
UPPER  Franchthi Gravettian/Epigravettian
20,000 Franchthi
18-13,000
hiatus at Franchthi
15,000 Klithi 16-13,000
10,000
MESOLITHIC 9,500 Franchthi
Franchthi
8,000 Franchthi
6,000 Sidari