Sesklo

Neolithic tell settlement site near Volos in Thessaly, Greece, first occupied in the 7th millennium BC (Aceramic Neolithic). It has given its name to a pottery ware known over much of continental Greece in the Middle Neolithic, 6th millennium BC. The pottery's most distinctive feature is a fine white slip painted in red with geometric designs, often in zigzag patterns. The pre-Sesklo which it succeeds was a local branch of the widespread Starcevo culture. The settlement has closely grouped mud-brick houses set on stone foundations, each with a domed oven. There was a large megaron complex on the acropolis and it was an important settlement through the Bronze Age.

Neolithic tell settlement in the Thessalian plain of northern Greece which has given its name to the Middle Neolithic culture of much of Greece and to the characteristic pottery type, painted in red geometric designs on a light ground. The settlement, dated to the 6th millennium be, has closely grouped mudbrick houses set on stone foundations, each with its own domed oven.