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Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierSite Name: Charkadio Cave Alternative Name: Σπήλαιο Χαρκαδιό
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 78.713 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Greek Islands Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Megalo Chorio  Nearest Village: Mysaria
Latitude: 36.440778N  Longitude: 27.365185E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Charkadio Cave
Charkadio Cave submitted by kosthell : Sample elephant in the local museum (Vote or comment on this photo)
This cave is located in the centre of the Greek island of Tilos. During excavations carried out by the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Athens in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Vienna, 15,000 bones were found from 40 dwarf elephants that were 120 - 150 cm high and belonged to the species Palaeoloxodon tiliensis.

Other animals found during this excavation, but in deeper places, were deer that disappeared before the elephants arrived on the island. Bones of turtles, micro-mammals and fragments of tusks that were probably used as tools have also been found.

These finds date from 8000-7000 BC and are in the Palaeontological Museum.
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Charkadio Cave
Charkadio Cave submitted by kosthell : Μuseum (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Charkadio Cave submitted by kosthell : CAVE (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Charkadio Cave by sem on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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There was a marvellous three-part TV series about twenty years ago that among many other Greek myths, suggested that the cyclops legend was a result of finding the skulls of dwarf elephants.
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    Re: Charkadio Cave by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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    "The belief in cyclopes may have originated in P. falconeri skulls found in Sicily. As early as the fourteenth century, scholars had noted that the nasal cavity could be mistaken for a singular giant eye socket". Wikipedia.
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Re: Charkadio Cave by davidmorgan on Monday, 28 February 2022
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There's a whole section on the dwarf elephants of Tilos on Wikipedia.
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