Archaeological culture · c. 7000–4400 BCE
Sesklo culture (early farmers of Greece)
Some of Europe's first farmers lived in Thessaly and southern Macedonia in Greece. They grew wheat and barley, kept sheep, goats, cattle and pigs, and lived in mudbrick houses on hillside villages.
They made fine painted pottery. Farming spread from here north into the Balkans.
See Sesklo culture (early farmers of Greece) on the map in 7000 BCE
- On the map
- 7000–4400 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; dates come from excavated village layers and radiocarbon, and the very earliest levels are debated.
Sites
- Sesklo c. 7000–4400 BCE (earliest levels possibly older)