ARCHEO-ZOOLOGY

The Cave of the Lakes with its excavation findings in the natural entrance of the cave, gave us significant information on the prehistory and the protohistory of the local area. And so we learn that:

    1) during the MINDELIO STRATUM (450 thousand years ago) till the RISSIO STRATUM (250 thousand years ago) of the PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, the area had a warm, damp climate,
    2) the presence of the Hippopotamus and
    3) during the end of the NEOLITHIC and following into the BRONZE PERIOD, the cave was a place of settlement for man and particularly a place where he kept animals (barn) of the major domesticated breeds of the area. Thus we find that there existed deer - wolves - foxes and ravenous birds.

Regarding the Neolithic Economy (the survival of man), it was based on the following methods:

    α) an Economy based on game and collection (fruit, herbage, ..)
    β) an Economy based on production 

Regarding the local area, based on the data that we have, we must probably converge towards the second.

See the museum findings