Neolithic Aegean

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Neolithic Aegean refers to the prehistoric cultures around the Aegean Sea characterized by early farming communities, sedentary village life, and the development of pottery and stone tools before the advent of metalworking.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological culture area
prehistoric cultural period
characterizedBy absence of metalworking
development of pottery
domestication of animals
domestication of plants
early farming communities
sedentary village life
use of ground stone tools
follows Mesolithic period
surface form: Mesolithic Aegean
hasArchitecture mudbrick houses
occasionally circular buildings
rectangular buildings
stone foundations
hasBurialPractice intramural burials
hasChronology Early Neolithic
Late Neolithic
Middle Neolithic
hasCulturalInfluenceFrom Anatolian Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
surface form: Near Eastern Neolithic
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
animal husbandry
fishing
hunting and gathering
hasMaterialCulture burnished pottery
figurines
obsidian tools
painted pottery
stone axes
hasNotableSite Dimini
Franchthi Cave
Knossos
surface form: Knossos (Neolithic levels)

Nea Nikomedeia
Sesklo
hasRawMaterialSource Melian obsidian
hasSettlementType permanent villages
tell settlements
hasTechnology ceramic production
stone tool production
weaving
hasTemporalRelation 7th millennium BC to 4th millennium BC (approximate)
includesRegion Aegean islands
Crete
Greek mainland
surface form: mainland Greece

western Anatolia coastal zones
locatedIn Aegean Sea region
Eastern Mediterranean
Balkans
surface form: Southeastern Europe
partOf Neolithic period
precedes Aegean Bronze Age
surface form: Bronze Age Aegean
studiedInDiscipline Aegean prehistory
archaeology

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Aegean Bronze Age precededBy Neolithic Aegean
Helladic culture follows Neolithic Aegean
this entity surface form: Neolithic Greece
Helladic culture follows Neolithic Aegean
this entity surface form: Final Neolithic culture of Greece