Achilleion (Thessaly)
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Achilleion is an early Neolithic
site in Thessaly
, Greece. It was partly excavated by the American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
. She claims to have reached aceramic layers, similar to those at Argissa Magoula
, but this interpretation has been disputed due to the small extent of the trench.
Neolithic
The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...
site in Thessaly
Thessaly
Thessaly is a traditional geographical region and an administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name. Before the Greek Dark Ages, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, and appears thus in Homer's Odyssey....
, Greece. It was partly excavated by the American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas , was a Lithuanian-American archeologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", a term she introduced. Her works published between 1946 and 1971 introduced new views by combining traditional spadework with linguistics and mythological...
. She claims to have reached aceramic layers, similar to those at Argissa Magoula
Argissa Magoula
Argissa Magoula is a Neolithic settlement mound in Thessaly in Greece. It was excavated by Vladimir Milojčić from the University of Heidelberg in the 1950s. He claimed to have found evidence of an aceramic Neolithic, but this has been disputed.-Sources:...
, but this interpretation has been disputed due to the small extent of the trench.
Sources
- Marija Gimbutas, Shan Winn, Daniel Shimabuku, Achilleion, a Neolithic settlement in Thessaly, Greece, 6400-5600 B.C. Los Angeles, Calif., Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles 1989.
- Perlès, Catherine: The early Neolithic in Greece: the first farming communities in Europe. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2001.
- Björk, Claude: Early pottery in Greece : a technological and functional analysis of the evidence from neolithic Achilleion, Thessaly. Jonsered, Sweden, P. Åströms V. 1995.