Kilada

              

Franchthi Cave is located on the northern tip of Kiladha Bay in the Argolid. It is a limestone formation about 150 m long and 45 m in maximum width. Most of the interior of the cave is today filled with massive breakdown from the roof. At the very back of the cave is a small pool of brackish water.

 

Excavations at the cave were carried out between 1967 and 1976 by an international archaeological team and local workers under the direction of Prof. Thomas Jacobsen. Trenches were opened in the front portion of the cave and along the beach outside the cave. The excavations revealed a rare sequence of human occupation spanning the Upper Palaeolithic to the end of the Neolithic period (ca. 25,000-3000 B.C.)

 

The life of the modern village of Kiladha revolves around the sea. Most of its residents are employed in the greek merchant marine or in commercial fishing in the immediate area and all over the world. But what was the relationship of the prehistoric residents of the area to the sea? This is the question that this exhibit will explore by means of a trip back in time. Our guides in this trip will be the changes of the prehistoric landscape as reconstructed with clues from underwater geophysical investigations in Kiladha Bay, together with some of the…trash left behind by the prehistoric users of the cave (e.g., thousands of fish bones, sea shells, and obsidian tools). Most of these finds are small and were found during the sifting of the excavated dirt in the dry and water sieves.

 

              

 

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