Neolithic Archaeological Sites in Greece - Neolithic Settlements in Macedonia (Greece), Neolithic Settlneolithic Settlements in Macedonia (Greece), Neolithic Settlements in Thessaly Ements in Thessaly (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Neolithic Settlements in Macedonia (Greece), Neolithic Settlements in Thessaly, Neolithic Sites in Crete, Sesklo, Servia, Greece, Dimini, Franchthi Cave, Dispilio, Sitagroi, Mitrou, Eileithyia Cave, Promachonas, Achilleion, Argissa Magoula. Excerpt: Sesklo (Sesclo, Greek: Aromanian: ) is an Aromanian village nearby the city of Volos, in Thessaly (central Greece), in the prefecture of Magnesia. It is part of the municipality Aisonia. Nearby, a Neolithic settlement was discovered at the end of the 19th century and the first excavations were made by Greek archaeologist, Christos Tsountas. This settlement gives its name to the first Neolithic culture of Europe, which inhabited Thessaly and parts of Greek Macedonia. The oldest fragments researched at Sesklo place the civilization's development as far back as 6850 BC with a +/- 660 year margin of error. The first settlements, which predate the 6th millennium BCE, are known as proto-Sesklo (main group) and pre-Sesklo (secondary groups with differentiated characteristics) and they show an advanced agriculture and a very early use of pottery that rivals in age those of the Near East, in an area geographically close to the Petralona cave and the Archanthropus living environment. The peoples of Sesklo built their villages on hillsides near fertile valleys, where they grew wheat and barley, also keeping herds of mainly sheep and goats, though they also had cows, pigs and dogs. Their houses were small, with one or two rooms, built of wood or mudbrick in the early period. Later the construction technique becomes more homogeneous and all homes are built of adobe with stone foundations. In the 6th millennium BCE, the first houses with two levels are found and there is also a clear intentional urbanism. The... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1355949