Discovery Pushes Back Human Presence in Greece by a Quarter Million Years

Discovery Pushes Back Human Presence in Greece by a Quarter Million Years

Stone tools dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic period were discovered in the Peloponnese in June 2023. Credit: Ministry of Culture It was June 2023, when an archaeological find in the Peloponnese rewrote Greece’s history in one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade. Stone tools dating back to the Lower Palaeolithic period, estimated to be around 3.3 million to 300,000 years old, were discovered deep in an open coal mine in the Meg…