Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and
later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. …

Three cryptotephra layers associated with important periods of climatic change were identified
in the Middle Palaeolithic sequence of Theopetra Cave, Greece. The lower cryptotephra …

Prehistoric cave sediments are often subjected to severe mechanical and chemical alteration,
making it difficult to interpret aspects of their archaeology. Theopetra cave offers unique …

We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations,
the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, …

Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already
partly formed in the Early Neolithic period. Some of these long-lived sites grew to many …

… In 1987 excavations began in Theopetra under the direction of N Kyparissi-Apostolika,
which were meant to give some answers to the mystery of Paleolithic Thessaly. The cave is …

The aim of the study is to investigate mitochondrial diversity in Neolithic Greece and its relation
to hunter-gatherers and farmers who populated the Danubian Neolithic expansion axis. …

… The excavations in Theopetra cave, which started in 1987 (Kyparissi-Apostolika 1994) and
… of the cave during the Neolithic in Thessaly (Kyparissi-Apostolika in press). In this chapter I …

This paper presents the results of wood charcoal analysis carried out on material from Theopetra
cave in central Greece. The sequence dates from prior to 130–8 ka bp and is made up …