The same age was given in 1964 by two German researchers, O. Sickenberg in Paleontology and E. Breitinger in Anthropology, the latter declaring that Petralona man is “the first African out of Africa”. Petralona Cave, in Chalkidiki, Greece, is an internationally significant archaeological and paleontological site. The Anthropological Association of Greece, feeling a heavy duty in front of the international scientific and public community, asked the Greek authorities to advance written descriptions accompanied by photos and videos verifying the skull’s state of preservation. That is why Professor Macie Henneberg wrote in a letter to “Current Anthropology” (v. 29, 1988): By the entrance to the (Petralona Anthropological) museum there is a marble plaque describing the purpose of the museum and stating that it was erected through Dr. Poulianos efforts. Whether you live at the African side of the Red Sea, or at the Asian side, is unimportant: erectus' anatomy (pachyostosis, osteosclerosis, brain expansion, stone tool use, platycephaly, projecting nose, ear exostoses, platymeria, platypelloidy etc.) The ‘Petralona man’, or Archanthropus of Petralona, as it has since been called, was found to be 700,000 years old, making it the oldest human europeoid (presenting European traits) of that age ever discovered in Europe.
Since it would be very improbable for similar subspecific anthropological types to be repeated after almost a million years towards the same direction, the hypothesis of the early diversification (due to different adaptations) gains ground. Therefore, Dr Aris Poulianos’ theory was seen as exaggerated. Greece has been uplifted geologically, and was at Petralona's time at sea-level. shows erectus was a typical littoral species: they spread intercontinentally along the coasts (later also rivers) beach-combing, diving & wading bipedally for littoral, shallow aquatic & waterside foods, including shellfish rich in brain-specific nutrients: DHA, taurine, iodine etc. Nickos A. Poulianos was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), July 15Whether Petralona was 200 or 700 ka, or whether Petralona proves or disproves out of Africa, is not so important: we know early-Pleistocene archaic Homo dispersed along the African & Eurasian coasts as far as SE.Asia (Mojokerto, later even oversea to Flores). The research proved that Petralona Archanthropus has an age of about 700.000 years ago, that is the oldest known Europeoid man. The “Petralona man”, or “Archanthropus of Petralona”, is a 700,000-year-old human skull discovered in 1959.. In 1959 a villager of Petralona, in Halkidiki, Northern Greece, in his effort to find sources of water for the needs of the settlement, found a small cleft on the slopes of Mount Katsika. The above mentioned professor, O. Sickenberg, with the help of his pupil G. Shutt, indirectly agreed with Dr Aris Poulianos concerning the date of 700,000 years before passing away by the end of 1970. The “Petralona man”, or “Archanthropus of Petralona”, is a 700,000-year-old human skull discovered in 1959. When Dr Aris Poulianos had the opportunity to study the skull, he immediately highlighted the European traits of the male Petralona man. In fact, they stretch back thousands of years, undoubtedly to the time before written history. Can you guess why?The modern Baltic nations of Latvia and Lithuania owe a lot to their fierce and rich history. We seek to retell the story of our beginnings. B. The "Petralona man", or "Archanthropus of Petralona", is a 700,000-year-old human skull discovered in 1959. Dr. Aris Poulianos, an expert anthropologist, member of UNESCO’s International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and founder of the Anthropological Association of Greece, was assigned research on the cave and skull.Before that, Dr. Poulianos was already known for his thesis on “The origin of the Greeks”. I am writing on behalf of the Union Internationale de Speleology (UIS) to state and request the following be done openly and transparently: Demonstrate that the materials are safe from harm and establish a policy to assure their continued long-term security; use documents and other information to prove the authenticity and provenance of the materials; carefully and accurately document the physical condition of the materials and any damage to establish a baseline from which their future condition and the effects of any handling should be secured and future study can be precisely compared and measured; and develop a policy that includes the procedures, conditions, and limitations under which any qualified scientist can access the materials for further study. We have now received an update directly from the head researcher...Nickos A. Poulianos was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), July 15 th 1956. If any ancestral human forms at the age of more than 700,000 years ago existed, preceding today’s living populations (African, Asian, European), could the manifestation of their diversification be much older than it was initially thought (and not only 10,000, 30,000 or 200,000 years ago)? The initial international reaction was that no humans could exist at that age out of Africa in Europe. There is no competent anthropologist supervising the site and the museum at the moment… I do think that it is unethical to erase facts with a chisel and to prevent competent researchers from continuing their work at the site. Can you guess why?The modern Baltic nations of Latvia and Lithuania owe a lot to their fierce and rich history. Discoveries such as in Atapuerca (Spain), Ceprano (Italy) or Dmanissi (Caucasus) reconfirmed the initial idea that in Europe the existence of humans could be of 2 million years ago, if not even more.