Digging Up an Ancient QuarryIn the summer of 2016 I spent a month with the SNAP team at Stélida as part of my Global Archaeology project. The majority of what they uncovered was the material evidence of stone extraction and reduction activities. There is also known Middle Palaeolithic activity at Stélida identified from diagnostic prepared core technology. But what the newly published evidence from Stélida tells us is that it is possible there were other hominid species quarrying and using Stélida chert even earlier. Interestingly, the loose concentration of excavated Middle Palaeolithic material comes from an area associated with both a rock shelter and an ancient spring.