Stelida

Project	Project Date	Project Director(s)	Project Period	Research Type
SNAP - Excavation	Monday, May 25, 2015 to Tuesday, July 31, 2018	Demetris Athanasoulis	Lower Paleolithic: 2,500,000 - 300,000/250,000 B.C., Middle Paleolithic: 300,000/250,000 - 50,000/40,000 B.C., Upper/Late Paleolithic: 50,000/40,000 - 12,000/10,000 B.C., Mesolithic: 12,000/10,000 - 9,000/8,000 B.C., Final Neolithic	test trench excavation
Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project	Monday, August 26, 2013 to Friday, July 31, 2015	Tristan Carter, Demetris Athanasoulis	Paleolithic: 2,500,000 - 12,000/10,000 B.C., Mesolithic: 12,000/10,000 - 9,000/8,000 B.C.	intensive pedestrian survey, land excavation

Site Related Finds

	Object Name	Material	Object Date - Earliest	Object Date - Latest
SNAP001	microlith	chert	Lower Mesolithic period	Mesolithic period
SNAP002	pressure blade	obsidian	Final Neolithic	Early Bronze Age
SNAP003	bladelet	chert	Mesolithic
SNAP004	Levallois flake and blade industries	chert	Middle Palaeolithic
SNAP005	Levallois flake and blade industries	chert	Middle Palaeolithic
SNAP006	convex scraper	chert	Middle Palaeolithic
SNAP007	side scraper	chert	Middle Palaeolithic
SNAP008	Levallois flake and blade industries	chert	Middle Palaeolithic

Lecture by Prof. Tristan Carter (McMaster University) at the opening of the photographic exhibition "The Neanderthals on Naxos" at the Naxos Cultural Center (Kastro - Chora) [14/04/2018]	Map of the Aeolianite exposures 3-6 at Stelida, Naxos sampled by SNAP in 2015	Map of the E. Hartl - Plots A and B at Stelida, Naxos with the locations of the 2015 SNAP test trenches	Map of the A.M. DeGrazia Plot B at Stelida, Naxos with the location of the 2015 SNAP test trenches indicated
Location of the 2015 test trenches of SNAP on the A. M. DiGrazia-A plot at Stelida, Naxos	Topographical map of Stelida, Naxos with the location of the 2015 test trenches and the sampling of the Aeolianite exposures	View of Rock Shelter B on SW slope of Stelida, Naxos	View of excavations on the SW slope of Stelida, Naxos.