First settlements
7000 - 3000 BCE · Early choices near water, plain and passage
How to read this period
Covering 7000 - 3000 BCE, the First settlements dossier is a reading point within the long transformation of settlement, movement, production and belief networks across the Aegean. Early choices near water, plain and passage. Period boundaries are used to compare layers that changed at different speeds in different places, rather than to imply a clean historical break.
Records from the coast, valleys and inland areas are not reduced to one line of development. Region, place and narrative links are used to compare shared patterns with local differences.
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Places from this period
Place dossiers are linked here as their source and period review is completed.
Period stories
New narratives for this period are being prepared.