Greece, prehistory and history of
Greece, prehistory and history of(see map: Greece and the Aegean world)
Stone Age
The stone age is divided into the palaeolithic (to c.9000 BC), mesolithic (c.9000–7000 BC) and neolithic (7th–4th millennia bc); metallurgy began during the neolithic, before the conventional neolithic–bronze age transition.Classical Greece was an essentially agricultural society and as such can trace its origins back to the first farming communities in Greece in the early neolithic (7th millennium bc). Some at least of the domestic livestock and crop species were introduced from the near east, but Greece had long been occupied by palaeolithic and mesolithic gatherer-hunters (e.g. at Franchthi cave, Argolid). It is unclear whether the first farmers were of indigenous, immigrant or mixed stock. Known early farming settlements (e.g. Argissa) are heavily concentrated in the fertile lowlands of the eastern...
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