1st junior high school Alexandria Greecesecond grade class

Our school trip to Petralona cave and Anthropological Museum

On 5th of April second grade class of 1st junior high school of Alexandria went a school trip to the Petralona Cave and the Anthropological Museum, which are situated about 50 km SE of Thessaloniki in Chalkidiki.

Our town

Our destination

The Petralona cave, was discovered in 1959. It had been accidentally located by Philippos Chatzaridis.It became internationally known when the skull of Archanthropus was found by another villager, Christos Sariannidis.

Petralona Cave is roughly 2 kilometres long. The temperature inside the cave remains constant at about 17 (+1) degrees centigrade all year round

Anthropological Museum

Museum Entrance

Inside Museum

The scale of Evolution of life according to Aristotle

Wall paintings

Archanthropus Mausoleum

Reconstruction (natural size) of the inner cave chamber where the Petralona man was discovered

Antlers of ibex Macedonica

Skull of Petralonian hyena

skull of a wild donkey

Skull of a Deninger’s Cave bear

Right maxilla and mandible of a Deninger’s cave bear

Neolithic Celts

Traces of fire

Photos

Vangelis M.