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<< Our Photo Pages >> Matala - Rock Cut Tomb in Greece in Crete

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Multi-periodSite Name: Matala Alternative Name: Μάταλα
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 8.258 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Crete Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Nearest Town: Matala
Latitude: 34.995100N  Longitude: 24.747800E
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Rock Cut Tombs in Crete

Note: 130,000 year old stone tools found on southern shore of Crete, indicating very ancient mariners, see comment
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Re: On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners by Anonymous on Sunday, 28 February 2010
More evidence pointing to the probability of the people of the Solutrean
culture making their way from France to America.
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    Re: On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners by bat400 on Sunday, 28 February 2010
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    Yes, France to North America, all 40 km. Hmmm...
    No reason to make this simpler than it is.
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      Re: On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners by Aluta on Sunday, 28 February 2010
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      But, bat400, there IS the matter of the Clovis point and its only apparent predecessor being the Solutrean point, plus the Haploid X phenomenon among some of the Algonquian speakers. Doesn't make it at all certain, but does raise a reasonable doubt . . .

      If people could reach Australia as early as they did, and that has now been moved back in time, then why couldn't a few have crossed the Atlantic? Not that native Americans were European, but that some of them may have been of mixed ancestry.
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        Other Very Ancient Mariners - Solutreans? by bat400 on Monday, 01 March 2010
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        Don't get me wrong, the finds of Crete are supportive of early seafaring - I don't doubt it. But its a real stretch to suppose it's substantial support for the NA Solutrean emigration theory. (...The intention of my comment to Anonymous.) I think the very early finds in coastal Canada and South America and even the recently DNA finds support a rapid method of peopling the Americas. I think it really very likely that boats were in the mix for transportation.

        The haplogroup X may not be a dominant group throughout East Asia, but it is found in Asia as well as in Europe, and has been found in southern Siberia. (I hate to point directly to Wikipedia, but its a good summary (I think?): This is a link.
        Solutrean points are certainly similar to Clovis, but apparently not identical. There seem to be technologies that early peoples discovered/invented independently, and pressure flaking may be one of them. Again, excuse me, Wikipedia:This is a link.
        (Similar information is in Mammoth Trumpet publications, but the wiki articles have the benefit of being more gracious in listing multiple possibilities.)

        I'll tell you though - what would dramatically change the game for the NA Soluterian theory would be evidence of Soluterean or Clovis (or a transitional form) to be found in Greenland, Iceland, or Scotland. Alternately additional DNA evidence from ancient NA finds might cinch it as well - although it would be problematic with current laws and the general feelings of modern Native Americans.
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        Re: Other Very Ancient Mariners - Solutreans? by Aluta on Monday, 01 March 2010
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        I agree that enough evidence isn't there to convince me. It's just enough of a hint that for now I can't dismiss it, especially along with accounts of early European explorers saying the features of eastern Indians could have passed for European.
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Re: On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners by sem on Saturday, 20 February 2010
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As a point to note, Plakias is on the coast approx 40km NW of Matala. The tombs at Matala are dated to the 1st or 2nd Century AD.
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On Crete, New Evidence of Very Ancient Mariners by Andy B on Friday, 19 February 2010
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Early humans, possibly even prehuman ancestors, appear to have been going to sea much longer than anyone had ever suspected.

That is the startling implication of discoveries made the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete. Stone tools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earliest known seafaring in the Mediterranean and cause for rethinking the maritime capabilities of prehuman cultures.

Crete has been an island for more than five million years, meaning that the toolmakers must have arrived by boat. So this seems to push the history of Mediterranean voyaging back more than 100,000 years, specialists in Stone Age archaeology say. Previous artifact discoveries had shown people reaching Cyprus, a few other Greek islands and possibly Sardinia no earlier than 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

The oldest established early marine travel anywhere was the sea-crossing migration of anatomically modern Homo sapiens to Australia, beginning about 60,000 years ago. There is also a suggestive trickle of evidence, notably the skeletons and artifacts on the Indonesian island of Flores, of more ancient hominids making their way by water to new habitats.

Even more intriguing, the archaeologists who found the tools on Crete noted that the style of the hand axes suggested that they could be up to 700,000 years old. That may be a stretch, they conceded, but the tools resemble artifacts from the stone technology known as Acheulean, which originated with prehuman populations in Africa.

More than 2,000 stone artifacts, including the hand axes, were collected on the southwestern shore of Crete, near the town of Plakias, by a team led by Thomas F. Strasser and Eleni Panagopoulou. She is with the Greek Ministry of Culture and he is an associate professor of art history at Providence College in Rhode Island. They were assisted by Greek and American geologists and archaeologists, including Curtis Runnels of Boston University.

Read more, with images in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16archeo.html?em
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