Petralona Anthropological Museum

Halkidiki Museums: The interesting Anthropological Museum in Petralona, Halkidiki

Anthropological Museum in Petralona: The Anthropological Museum of Petralona is located in the village of Petralona, which lies at a distance of 35 kilometres from Thessaloniki. The museum was established by the Anthropological Society of Greece in 1978 and opened its doors to the public in 1979. Findings from the famous Cave of Petralona, as whel as reconstructions of the cave’s interior are on display, and in fact the Cave of Petralona was the very reason of the museum’s foundation.

A visitor to the museum will also have the chance of getting in contact with the prehistoric culture not only of Greece and this particular area, but of the entire world. These artifacts also indicate the extent of the entire palaeoanthropological area of Greece.

Among the exhibits, the replica of the mausoleum of Archanthropus Europeus Petraloniensis is the most outstanding one. Another very interesting sight is the oldest traces of fire ever found which is evident from the 24th geological stratum in the Petralona Cave, which has been calculated to be about one million or more years old.

Other exhibits include primitive tools made of stone and bones, dating from 11 million years ago, and artifacts from the pre cave-dwelling era, all found in the area of Nea Triglia village in Halkidiki, while there are many more items from the island of Evvia, the area of Ptolemaida in Halkidiki, the Aegean Islands, as well as from various other parts of Greece, and Africa.

The museum also includes murals made by the painter Christos Kagaras showing the emergence of life on Earth, and others with the Archanthropus teaching children how tools of stone and bone can be made, with the evolution of life according to Aristotle, and the progress of human life over the last 11 million years according to Poulianos. The museum boasts of a library, a conference room, as well as geological and paleoanthropological conservation workshops.

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