The five year Project (2021-2025)
The five year agios Petros Project (2021-2025)
Forty years after our initial work at the submerged section of the Neolithic settlement of Agios Petros (1981) that coincided with the on-land excavation of the island, research at the site was resumed in 2021 with a five-year joint project between the Department of Archaeology, University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Underwater Archaeology, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece.
The aim of the project was to re-examine the underwater Neolithic remains of the submerged section of this 8.000 years old Early Neolithic site (6.000 BC), the oldest island settlement found so far in Greece. New techniques of surveying, recording and studying underwater prehistoric sites and their remains open some exciting prospects for the renewed work at Agios Petros.
The challenge we faced with in 2021 was to document whether the archaeological remains (stone features, portable finds) from the underwater research carried out forty years ago were still there, well preserved and visible, and if so, consider excavation.
GALLERY
THE 2021 DIVES
