GREECE EPIRUS IOANNINA KASTRITSA ROCKSHELTER

Near the southern shore of Lake Pamvotis lies the Cave of Kastritsa, actually just an overhanging rock. Today the site is fenced and not accessible, but all that there is to be seen can be viewed from the fence.

Excavations by S. Dakaris in 1966 and researchers of the Archaeological and Anthropologic School of Cambridge under E.S. Higgs in 1967 showed that the cave was intensively used during 12,000 years, which resulted in eight meters of deposits dating from 22,000 to about 10,000 BP (before present), i.e. in the Upper Palaeolithic or Late Stone Age.

In summer the site was used as a station for hunting in the fertile plains around Lake Pamvotis. The prey was red deer, wild cattle and steppe ass. - The place was also used for a stone tool industry, producing over half a million flaked stone tools that were found in the sediments.