Stone age in Greece

800.000 – 3.000

Palaeolithic

800.000 – 10.000

Messolithic

10.000 – 6.500

Neolithic

6.500 – 3.000

Palaeolithic Greece

A. caves

B. open-air sites

Petralona cave

The skull of Petralona ( 600.000 – 200.000)

Franchthi cave (30.000 – 3.000)

The oldest human skeleton found in Greece in Franchthi (10.000 – 8.000)

Vases with painted decoration

(Franchthi, Middle Neolithic)

Who homo erectus, homo sapiens

What

handmade tools (sharpened stones, choppers, needles)

weapons (spears, axes, bows and arrows)

objects found in nature

clothes made of skins

How

living in bands of 25-100 people

hunting and gathering

having burial rituals

believing in the afterlife

Where

In caves and open-air sites (in huts and hovels) mostly near rivers and lakes

When from 1.000.000-800.000 up to 7.000-6.500 B.C.

Why mobil lifestyle

Palaeolithic

Neolithic Greece

Permanent settlements

The neolithic settlement

of Sesclo (6.800-4.400)

Building on Sesclo acropolis

Ceramic workshop in Sesclo

Red clay vase with white painted

decoration

Stone axes from Sesclo

The neolithic acropolis of Dimini

(4.800-1.100)

Design reconstruction of the acropolis

Clay jar from Dimini

Arrows from Dimini

Jar with incised decoration

Idol of sitting woman

(middle Neolithic)

Man idol (later Neolithic)

Woman idol from Sparta (early Neolithic)

Woman idol from Creta

Who homo sapiens

What

tools (chisel, hoe, plough, yoke, loom)

pottery

woven clothes

How

living in tribes

gathering, hunting

fishing

agriculture

domestication

Where farmsteads in settlements

When from 7.000-6.500 up to 3.000 B.C.

Why permanent installation

Neolithic