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THE FIRST PHOTOS ON THE DAY PETRALONA SKULL WAS DISCOVERED

Poulianos Dimitris (1), Poulianos Nickos (2)

1) Anthropological Association of Greece, Athens, Greece; 2) Ministry of Culture, Greece

Poulianos Dimitris, e-mail: aee@otenet.gr; Poulianos Nickos, e-mail: poulianos@gmail.com.

Abstract

Since September 15th, 1960, when the Petralona human skull was found (cf. also another Greek communication to the 19th EAA Congress, concerning the exact day and time of discovery), several controversial publications have appeared in the international bibliography. According to the authors of the present announcement a full re-examination of the available data is necessary. Towards this direction the first eight photos (some of which have never being presented in front of a scientific Congress) are shown here. During the above mentioned discovery day, these photos were taken by the agronomist Ioannis Malkotsis, who was one of the six men involved. Thus, on one hand, the pictures regarding the group of the Petralona cave “explorers” during that same day, and on the other hand, five of the skull’s views (enface, right profile, above, right profile at ¾ and view from below for its basicranion) are visualized for the Congress participants. The photos were mainly taken keeping the skull on a flat surface (such as a table), but the basicranion view must have being taken when holding it, probably in hands of an unknown woman. The 1st photo that the Petralona man has become worldwide known is that from the front-page of the Thessaloniki “Macedonia” newspaper, September 18th, 1960. In this front-page the view of the right profile at ¾, along with the six persons is presented in a photomontage by an unknown photographer as well as an unknown journalist of the newspaper. Thus, (standing) Kostas Sariannidis, Ioannis Malkotsis, Bassilis Avramis, Ioannis Stathis (with the skull), as well as (sitting) Stavros Hatzaridis and Christos Sariannidis are shown. All eight photos, scanned at a high digital analysis are also presented and discussed herewith.

Keywords

Petralona skull, first photos, Khalkidhiki, Central Macedonia, Greece

Цит.: Poulianos Dimitris, Poulianos Nickos THE FIRST PHOTOS ON THE DAY PETRALONA SKULL WAS DISCOVERED // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 108-108