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Marathousa 1(Grece): Elephant butchering site of the Lower Palaeolithic found

Source - http://kostasvakouftsis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/site-of-elephant-butchering-came-to.html

 An open air archaeological site of the Lower Paleolithic period was located and is being excavated in the coal mining area of the Public Power Corporation S.A. in Megalopoli of Arcadia, Greece. More particular, at the site Marathousa 1, stone artefacts were found, stratified in situ and in relation to elephant bones of the Elephas antiquus species and other mammals, which, according to preliminary dating, have an age of 300,000-600,000 years.

Marathousa 1Marathousa 1: View of the excavation with part of the elephant skeleton (photo: Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs).

Marathousa 3Marathousa1: Elephant bone in stratification in correlation with stone tools (circled) (photo: Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs).

Marathousa 4Marathousa 1: Microscope image showing cut marks on an elephant bone (photo: Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs). 

Marathousa 2Marathousa 1: Stone tools (photo: Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs).