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Swiss Researchers Seek Prehistoric Greek Village

PlanetSolar catamaranThe world’s largest solar boat, the catamaran PlanetSolar, is to embark on a Greek mission to find one of the oldest sites inhabited by man in Europe, an organiser said on Monday.
Starting on August 11, a team of Swiss and Greek scientists will seek a “prehistoric countryside” in the south-eastern Peloponnese peninsula, University of Geneva researcher Julien Beck told AFP. The month-long mission, jointly organized with the Swiss school of archaeology and the Greek culture ministry, will search around the Franchthi cave in the Argolic gulf, Greece, where early Europeans lived between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods.
The cave was eventually abandoned around 3,000 BC but scientists assume the inhabitants must have built a village nearby.
The vessel, built in Germany and currently used as a floating marine research laboratory by Geneva University, was launched on March 31, 2010, and in May 2012 became the first-ever solar electric vehicle to circumnavigate the globe. It is covered in over 500 square metres of solar panels generating 93 kW, which connect to the two electric motors in each hull, and carries 8.5 tons of lithium-ion batteries, while it can reach speeds of up to 14 knots.
(source: AP, AFP)

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