Petralona () is a small locality in Chalkidiki, Macedonia, Greece. It is 6 km northwest of Triglia and 35 km southeast of Thessaloniki. Its altitude is .
It is famous for the Petralona Cave about 1 km from the village, in which was discovered one of the earliest European humanoids.
Prehistory The Petralona Cave, at the foot of Mount Katsika, was discovered in 1959 by a local looking for a spring. In 1960 the Petralona skull was found in the cave. The skull was extremely well preserved and given an initial estimated age of more than years. It was named Archanthropus europaeus petraloniensis (Poulianos, 1976). « Pre-Sapiens Man in Greece ». By Aris Nickos Poulianos, Current Anthropology, vol. 22, n° 3, June 1981, pp. 287-288.
Transport
Petralona is about north of Chalkidiki Provincial Road 4, from the village of .
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An important neolithic site: The Petralona Cave and Anthropological Museum.