Race to preserve the world's oldest submerged town - Part 2

Underwater archaeologists surveying the worlds oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the early Bronze Age. This suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5000 years ago making the site even more important than first thought.

The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project, involving the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and The University of Nottingham, aims to establish when the site was occupied, what it was used for and through a systematic study of the geomorphology of the area, how the town became submerged.

Dr Jon Henderson, from the Department of Archaeology, takes up the story.

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[HighHeatProductions]

Yay im viewer 85,000. Whats my prize?

[NottmUniversity]

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[JaquariusWilson]

notthingham, isnt that the name of the castle in peter pan

[NottmUniversity]

Close, it's the home of the Robin Hood tale

[KryssySushi]

It's stuff like this that makes me want to go into Archaeology. This is just amazing. 5000 years old!

[NottmUniversity]

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[TidePools]

I find it interesting that modern society tends to think of past societies as less intelligent. Technology and society has advanced due to generations of knowledge and discovery building upon one another, not because the human brain has 'evolved' into something more brilliant than our distant forefathers. This always cracks me up.

[michaeljpurdy]

Bravo, bravo, bravo! It is great to see such a concerted effort to explore these important remains. I wish I could be involved!

[thegreeensky]

very interesting.. great work!

[Shandchem]

Amazing place! Brilliant team work!

[gatakiarvuliotiko]

every summer i am swimming there only with my mask!!1 yes i am greek! no its not atlantis!! but its AWESOME people!! its magical!!! <3 lakonia is the best place in the world <3

[bhaltos]

@x1altair Okay then give me a name of an older submerged town with a planned layout - streets, walls, courtyards, puiblic areas etc. Of course there are older submerged sites (humans have been around for 200,000 years) but there is nothing with a planned layout like Pavlopetri that has yet been found underwater.

[x1altair]

Not even close to be being the oldest..... Euro-centric ppl would do anything claim it being the oldest by disregarding other ancient sites that predates this

[gloup81]

@KryssySushi this must be wrong , sesklos is a town from 5.500 bc thats 8500 years ... there must be some misunderstanding here

[celica1135]

@ZoDiaCsph me too! Αγιος Γεώργιος Λακωνίας

[theodorosGR]

nice work

[freezazoid]

@HighHeatProductions Why is that a significant number? So every 5000 views someone gets a prize? Why not every 2000 views or every 1000 views? You're prize is you're a moron.. congratulations.

[AlternateViewpoint]

@NottmUniversity :D ... Well, 'close' being a loosely applied term as in horseshoes & atom bombs. In fact, the proximity is that Peter Pan is a fictional character in a story based in London & Robin Hood is PROBABLY a fictional character from a folk tale set in the North Midlands quite a ways from London, but they both lived in England... or, in Pan's case, a fantastical adjacent dimension to Edwardian London. So, erm... not really very close at all.

But the archaeology... so cool. :)