'''Gua Apidima''' adalah [[gua]] di pantai barat [[Semenanjung Mani]], [[Yunani]] selatan, tempat ditemukannya [[fosil]] [[Neanderthal]] anddan ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' dari zaman [[paleolitikum]].<ref name="NAT-20190710a">{{cite journal |last=Delson |first=Eric |title=An early dispersal of modern humans from Africa to Greece |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02075-9 |date=10 Juli 2019 |journal=[[Nature (jurnal)|Nature]] |doi=10.1038/d41586-019-02075-9 |accessdate=12 Juli 2019 }}</ref> Fosil ''Homo sapiens'' yang ditemukan adalah contoh tertua [[asal usul manusia modern dari Afrika|manusia modern di luar Afrika]].<ref name='"BBC July 2019'">[https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48913307 Earliest modern human found outside Africa.] ''[[BBC News]]''. 10 Juli 2019.</ref><ref name="TG-20190710">{{cite news |last=Sample |first=Ian |title=Piece of skull found in Greece ‘is oldest human fossil outside Africa’ |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/10/piece-of-skull-found-in-greece-is-oldest-human-fossil-outside-africa |date=10 Juli 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=11 Juli 2019 }}</ref> Penelitian ilmiah di Apidima dimulai pada 1978 melalui kolaborasi beberapa pihak, antara lain [[Universitas Athena]] dan [[Universitas Aristoteles Thessaloniki]].<ref name='FHW'>{{cite web |url=http://www1.fhw.gr/chronos/01/en/pl/housing/apidima.html |title=Apidima Cave |accessdate=10 Juli 2019}}</ref>
