The areas fertile plains, access to water, and a mild climate, made it ideal for early agriculture and herding
Its believed Athens has been more inhabited more than 5000 years (2)

They had stone tools (flint and obsidian); simple pottery; wattle-and-daub houses; animal bones suggesting domesticated livestock; grain and seed remains, indicating agriculture
Evidence shows a transition from hunter-gatherer to settled farming life.

Athens was part of a broader Neolithic revolution in Greece, where agriculture, permanent housing, and social complexity began to emerge

Forming thousand of years of history. Neolithic Athens helps show foundations of urban life, and how complex societies began. Check it out with some more neolithic architecture today!

Cite: 1) “v4.ethnos.gr – Οι πρώτοι… Αθηναίοι” (https://web.archive.org/web/20110721080919/http://www.ethnos.gr/
article.asp?catid=22784&subid=2&pubid=2530782&tag=8796). Ethnos.gr. July 2011. Archived from the
original (http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=22784&subid=2&pubid=2530782&tag=8796)

2) Tung, Anthony (2001). “The City the Gods Besieged” (https://archive.org/details/preservingworlds00anth).
Preserving the World’s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis. New York:
Three Rivers Press. p. 266 (https://archive.org/details/preservingworlds00anth/page/266).
ISBN 0-609-80815-X

Bibliography: S. Immerwahr, The Athenian Agora XIII: the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, Princeton 1971