page_title: Petralona cave
section_title: Lagomorpha
hierarchical_section_title: Petralona cave / Fossil fauna / Mammals / Lagomorpha
caption_attribution_description: Hystrix cristata English: Crested porcupine in captivity. Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin العربية: شيهم في حديقة حيوانات هنري فيلاس. Deutsch: Stachelschwein mit aufgestellten Stacheln, Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison, Wisconsin. Ελληνικά: Ο ευρωπαικός Ύστριξ, ο οποίος ζει και στη Β.Δ. Ελλάδα, δεν είναι σκαντζόχοιρος, αλλά υστριχόμορφο τρωκτικό. Français&#160;: Porc-épic de la famille des Hystricidae. Nederlands: Gewoon stekelvarken.
context_page_description: The Petralona cave also Cave of the Red Stones, a karst formation, is located at 300 m above sea-level on the western foot of Mount Katsika, about 1 km east of the village of Petralona, about 35 km south-east of Thessaloniki city on the Chalkidiki peninsula, Greece. The site came to public attention when in 1960 a fossilized archaic human skull was found. The cave had been discovered accidentally only a year earlier after erosion had left clefts in the rock. "Bejeweled" with impressive stalactite and stalagmite formations and holding an abundance of fossils, the cave soon attracted geologists and paleontologists. After decades of excavations the cave is open to the public and scientific work is documented and presented in an adjacent archaeological museum.
  The cave's most prominent fossil specimen, since known among paleoanthropologists as the "Petralona Skull".
  The on-site Anthropological Museum of Petralona displays a selection of the objects that have been found in the cave.
context_section_description: Lepus terraerubrae (Kretzoi)
  Oryctolagus sp. (European rabbit)
caption: Hystrix (porcupine)
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