LEAF-POINTS FROM PETROTA (GREEK THRACE) AND THE PALAEOLITHIC CHRONOLOGY OF THE VRAHOS CHERT QUARRY
Journal: The Annual of the British School at Athens
Year: 2016

The Petrota chert source, in Greek Thrace, was exploited in the Middle Palaeolithic and again in the Neolithic and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. An extensive scatter of products of that exploitation today surrounds the source. The site was systematically surveyed between 1998 and 2010. The present paper is devoted exclusively to the issue of the chronology of the Middle Palaeolithic component. The best, though still imperfect, indicator of chronology is the presence in the scatter of bi