Η ανασκαφή της κυνηγετικής εγκατάστασης του Ούριακου της 11ης χιλιετίας π.Χ. στη Λήμνο

Τhe Late Palaeolithic campsite of Ouriakos located on the south-east coast of Lemnos was found in 2006 on a sand-dune during the construction of a carpark close to the beach. Surface collections and excavations during the following years have revealed the rich remains of a hunting camp which is radiocarbon dated to the middle of the 11th mill BC. Lithic assemblages are characterized by a large number of cores, crested blades, back bladelets and end scrapers. However, the most typical implements are microlithic lunates using bipolar retouch without micro-burin technology which can be compared with the material of Öküzini cave in southwest Anatolia. Ouriakos provides strong indications for a northwest spread through Anatolia of the Levantine Late Epipalaeolithic cultural tradition for which very little in known in the Aegean area and the Balkans