Neolithic Settlement 5100 - 4500 BCE
Beachside Neolithic village site with stone house foundations, obsidian tools, figurines and the Aegean's earliest dated gold object.
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This guide to the Ftelia Neolithic settlement on Mykonos begins with a single coil of gold, no wider than a fingertip, that turned up on this beach and rewrote the timeline of Aegean prehistory. Erosion first exposed stone walls here in 1992, and archaeologist Adamantios Sampson's excavation went on to uncover rectangular stone houses rebuilt across four occupation layers. Thousands of obsidian tools shipped in from Melos, small stone figurines, painted pottery and traces of metalworking all turned up around a village of only a couple hundred people, living here between 5100 and 4500 BCE.
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