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Franchthi Cave was used for around 35,000 years, and is one of the thoroughly studied sites in southeast Europe
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Last occupied around 3,000 BC (or, final neolithic), a major archaeological site overlooking Kiladha Bay, in the Argolic Gulf existsOpposite the village of Kiladha, is in southeastern Argolis, Greece. Humans first occupied the cave during the paleolithic era. Appearing around 38,000…
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Theopetra Cave has the oldest example of a man made structure dated to around 21000bc
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Located in the Meteora municipality, in Greece. Theopetra Cave is a limestone cave located in Thessaly It is situated on the northeast side of a limestone rock formation that is 3 km (2 mi) south of KalambakaThe site has become increasingly…
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Orthopetra or Dikili Tash (upright stone in Turkish), is a significant neolithic site is in NE Greece. It contained many artifacts. Including a domestic oven measuring 1.5 meters long
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A well known neolithic archaeological site is located in northern Greece. Near the town of Philippi. This site is notable for its long and continuous occupation, dating back to the early Neolithic period. Around 8400 years ago Dikili Tash is one…
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One of the earliest sites in Macedonia, is a settlement called Nea Nikomedeia. It is 11 kilometres NE of Veroia, in the NNW of Greece
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In the 1960s, the British school at Athens brought to light a large settlement. Possibly housing 500-700 people. More than 8,000 years ago (1)(2)It was called Nea Nikomedeia. The site was originally situated on the shores of the Thermaic gulf, or…
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Located on the shores of lake Banyoles. La Draga is known for its preservation of neolithic history. Included bows, tools & houses
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Dating back to the neolithic period, La Draga is an important archaeological site. Around the 1990s, during a lake-draining project, it was discovered. Since then valuable insights into prehistory, and the lives of communities during that time period have been provided.…
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Cardium or impressed ware pottery. Originated in the neolithic era. It used the heart shaped shell, corculum cardisa, for impressions and design
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Out of the Balkans the spread of agriculture and farming. Into the rest of Europe, had two distinct routes: An initial expansion represented by the impressed and cardium ware tradition. Following the northern mediterranean coastline. And, another expansion. Represented by the…
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Greece’s Sesklo culture was known for its location on the neolithic triptych
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In Greece many thousand years ago, long habitation was known in the east east south. Due to the fertile arable soil, abundance of water, and direct access to both the sea and mountains. Using their strategic location, Sesklo excelled during the…
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Argissa Magoula is one of the most important neolithic sites in Thessaly
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Located on the western Thessalian plain, near the Peneios River, about 8 km west of Larissa. In central Greece From 1955 to the 1970s, Vladimir Milojčić, the University of Heidelberg and the German Archaeological Institute excavated the siteThe occupation was from the…
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Best known for large paved pebble floors, a few apsidal dwelling plans, & routine domestic debris. Courthézon’s famous cardial-period occupation is also the open-air site Le Baratin
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Visible feature that made Le Baratin important is a large rubefied (=fire-stained) pebble empierrementArchaeologists read this as the floor, of at least one sizeable house. Other domestic features, and two apsidal plans were also recordedSuperstructures were almost certainly made from perishable wattle,…