A new worldwide originality of A.A.G.
concerns the internet virtual tour to the Cave
and the Anthropological Museum of the Petralonian Archanthropuses. Worth also
mentioning is that as Acropolis of Europe the Petralona Cave was named
in 1979 by Vidyarti, Academician from Bombay and Director of Indian Antiquities.
After his visiting the Cave, he genuflected in front the entrance and kneeled
the ancestors of the contemporaneous European populations (: from the Atlantic
ocean till India – through Alps, Caucasus, Arabia) saying: «Parthenon is the
Acropolis of Athens, Petralona Cave is the Acropolis of Europe». Moreover,
the obvious common anthropological origin of the peoples living in this broad
geographical area, as well as the linguistic kinship for most of them, led
to the scientific term of the "Indo-European
homoethny of languages"
On the other
hand the unsuccessful effort nominating some "Indo-Europeans" as
a people that existed sometimes and somewhere (in Persia or the Baltiks),
is not only groundless upon any archaeological data, but disorients the corresponding
research, widowing the international science from the discoveries
(already since 1973) as regards the anthropology in combination to the very old (at least Upper-Palaeolithic
~ 35.000 years) and
always Hellenic speaking Sarakatsani from Pindos Mountains, the closest
relatives to the Petralonian Archanthropuses, as the starting point of the
Europaeoids' common origin and their languages.
Part of the total expenses (less than
10%) for the construction of the new web site, which is synopsizing a work
of decades, was supported by the courteous donation (25.000 Euro) of the E.U.
program E-Services.
The initial presentation of the new site took place during the 15th International Congress of Spelaeology (20 and 22 July 2009, at Kernville, Texas, USA), as well as the 16th World Congress of Anthropology (31 July 2009, at Kunming, China).