As a Classics nerd, I am amazed at the genesis of the Greek civilization. The hardest part is sometimes determining when it all started (defining civilization is always tricky). Harder still is trying to determine if there is anything really shared by certain steps (Cycladic->Minoan->Mycenean. Are they even related to each other?).
But this new find of 130,000+ year old tools on Crete is incomprehensible if true. The edge of prehistory is obliterated by the shear length of time, and even suggests pre-modern human sea travel. Could any of this really be possible? It's so long ago, we have to start thinking about if there was an ice age at the time, if this could possibly be Neanderthals, etc. This find could show us just how little we know about prehistory.
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