108 Section MISCELLANEOUS THE FIRST PHOTOS ON THE DAY PETRALONA SKULL WAS DISCOVERED Poulianos Dimitris1 , Poulianos Nickos2 1Anthropological Association of Greece, Athens, Greece 2Ministry of Culture, Greece Since September 15th munication to the 19th , 1960, when the Petralona human skull was found (cf. also another Greek comEAA Congress, concerning the exact day and time of discovery), several controversial publications have appeared in the international bibliography. <...> According to the authors of the present announcement a full re-examination of the available data is necessary. <...> Towards this direction the fi rst eight photos (some of which have never being presented in front of a scientifi c Congress) are shown here. <...> During the above mentioned discovery day, these photos were taken by the agronomist Ioannis Malkotsis, who was one of the six men involved. <...> Thus, on one hand, the pictures regarding the group of the Petralona cave “explorers” during that same day, and on the other hand, fi ve of the skull’s views (enface, right profi le, above, right profi le at ¾ and view from below for its basicranion) are visualized for the Congress participants. <...> The photos were mainly taken keeping the skull on a fl at surface (such as a table), but the basicranion view must have being taken when holding it, probably in hands of an unknown woman. <...> The 1st photo that the Petralona man has become worldwide known is that from the front-page of the Thessaloniki “Macedonia” newspaper, September 18th , 1960. <...> In this front-page the view of the right profi le at ¾, along with the six persons is presented in a photomontage by an unknown photographer as well as an unknown journalist of the newspaper. <...> Thus, (standing) Kostas Sariannidis, Ioannis Malkotsis, Bassilis Avramis, Ioannis Stathis (with the skull), as well as (sitting) Stavros Hatzaridis and Christos Sariannidis are shown. <...> All eight photos, scanned at a high digital analysis are also presented and discussed herewith. <...> Key words: Petralona skull, fi rst photos, Khalkidhiki, Central Macedonia, Greece Contact information: Poulianos Dimitris, e-mail: aee@otenet.gr Poulianos Nickos, e-mail: poulianos@gmail.com. <...> ANIMALS IN THE FUNERAL RITE AND RITUAL PRACTICE OF THE ANCIENT POPULATION OF GONUR-DEPE Sataev Robert Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia On the Bronze Age settlement Gonur-depe, ways <...>