Editing Naxos (section)

=== Middle Paleolithic era ===
Stelida quarry, south-west of [[Naxos City|Chora]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stelida.org/english|title=Introducing Stelida|website=stelida.org|access-date=17 October 2019}}</ref> contains [[Mousterian]] tools dating back to the [[Middle Paleolithic]] era, which indicates that [[Neanderthal]] activity on the island spanned almost 200,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Carter|first1=Tristan|last2= Contreras|first2=Daniel A.|last3=Holcomb|first3=Justin|last4=Mihailović|first4=Danica D.|last5=Karkanas|first5=Panagiotis|last6=Guérin|first6=Guillaume|last7=Taffin|first7=Ninon|last8=Athanasoulis|first8=Dimitris|last9=Lahaye|first9=Christelle|title=Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin and Homo sapiens' behavior and dispersals|journal=Science Advances|date=16 October 2019|volume=5|issue=10|pages=eaax0997|doi=10.1126/sciadv.aax0997|pmid=31663021|pmc=6795523|bibcode=2019SciA....5..997C}}</ref> The extinct dwarf elephant species ''[[Dwarf elephant#Cyclades|Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi]]'' lived on Naxos at some point during the [[Late Pleistocene]].<ref name="VanderGeer2014">{{cite journal |last1=Van der Geer |first1=A. A. E. |last2=Lyras |first2=G. A. |last3=Van den Hoek Ostende |first3=L. W. |last4=De Vos |first4=J. |last5=Drinia |first5=H. |year=2014 |title=A dwarf elephant and a rock mouse on Naxos (Cyclades, Greece) with a revision of the palaeozoogeography of the Cycladic Islands (Greece) during the Pleistocene |url=http://repository.edulll.gr/3263 |journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology |volume=404 |pages=133–144 |doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.003 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10795/3263}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Athanassiou |first1=Athanassios |last2=van der Geer |first2=Alexandra A.E. |last3=Lyras |first3=George A. |date=August 2019 |title=Pleistocene insular Proboscidea of the Eastern Mediterranean: A review and update |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379119300848 |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=218 |pages=306–321 |bibcode=2019QSRv..218..306A |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.028 |s2cid=199107354|url-access=subscription }}</ref>