Argissa

An important Neolithic site in Thessaly, northern Greece, which has given much information on the early phases of the Greek Aceramic Neolithic period. In the Argissa Magula near Larissa, there have been early prepottery Neolithic finds of probably the 6th millennium BC. Timber-framed huts consisted of shallow mud-walled pits that were likely roofed with branches. Obsidian was already being traded and flint tools were made. The earliest known domesticated cattle date from about 6000 BC at Argissa (and Nea Nikomedeia) in Greece, in association with cultivated einkorn, emmer wheat, and barley, millet, lentils. Sheep, goats, and pigs were also cultivate and kept. This site (along with Knossos) is also responsible for the earliest evidence of agriculture, soon after 7000 BC. The site was occupied throughout the Neolithic and well into the Bronze Age.

An important Neolithic settlement site in Thessaly, Northern Greece, which has yielded much evidence of the Aceramic Neolithic period. Wheat, barley, lentils and millet were cultivated and sheep, goats, pigs and cattle kept. Houses with timber frames supporting mud walls have been dated before 6000 bc. Tools of flint and obsidian were used.