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The lowest levels at Dikili Tash, northern Greece: a missing link in the Early Neolithic of Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Laurent Lespez ,
Zoï Tsirtsoni ,
Pascal Darcque ,
Haïdo Koukouli-Chryssanthaki ,
Dimitra Malamidou ,
René Treuil ,
Robert Davidson ,
Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis  and
Christine Oberlin
Laurent Lespez
Affiliation:
1Geophen Laboratory-LETG UMR 6554, CNRS University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, BP 5186, 14032 Caen Cedex, France (Email: laurent.lespez@unicaen.fr; robert.davidson@unicaen.fr)
Zoï Tsirtsoni
Affiliation:
2UMR 7041 (Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité), Maison R. Ginouvès, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France (Email: zoi.tsirtsoni@mae.cnrs.fr, pascal.darcque@mae.u-paris10.fr; rene.treuil@mae.u-paris10.fr)
Pascal Darcque
Affiliation:
2UMR 7041 (Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité), Maison R. Ginouvès, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France (Email: zoi.tsirtsoni@mae.cnrs.fr, pascal.darcque@mae.u-paris10.fr; rene.treuil@mae.u-paris10.fr)
Haïdo Koukouli-Chryssanthaki
Affiliation:
3Chalkidos 4, 65004 Kavala, Greece (Email: ckoukouli@gmail.com)
Dimitra Malamidou
Affiliation:
418th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Er. Stavrou 17, 65110 Kavala, Greece (Email: d.malamidou@free.fr)
René Treuil
Affiliation:
2UMR 7041 (Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité), Maison R. Ginouvès, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France (Email: zoi.tsirtsoni@mae.cnrs.fr, pascal.darcque@mae.u-paris10.fr; rene.treuil@mae.u-paris10.fr)
Robert Davidson
Affiliation:
1Geophen Laboratory-LETG UMR 6554, CNRS University of Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, BP 5186, 14032 Caen Cedex, France (Email: laurent.lespez@unicaen.fr; robert.davidson@unicaen.fr)
Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis
Affiliation:
5Department of Archaeology, University of Athens, Campus Zografou, 15784 Athens, Greece (Email: gkphil@arch.uoa.gr
Christine Oberlin
Affiliation:
6Lyon Radiocarbon Laboratory-UMR 5138 (Archéométrie et Archéologie), University of Lyon 1, 40 Bd Niels Bohr, 69622 Villeurbanne, France (Email: christine.oberlin@univ-lyon1.fr)
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Abstract

Tells famously capture the historical sequences of the earliest farmers—but digging them is not easy. With a depth of strata of 17m at Dikili Tash, the earliest occupation was out of reach of a trench. But our researchers got there by coring, extending the date of the first occupation back 1000 years, and deducing, from small samples, the changing environment and possible connections with Anatolia.

Keywords

GreeceMacedoniaEarly Neolithictell settlementcoring
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 87 , Issue 335 , March 2013 , pp. 30 - 45
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2013

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