Neolithic Greece

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https://greekreporter.com/2021/03/2...a-cave-shed-light-on-neolithic-era-in-greece/

The cave provides us with a lot of information about their lives:

"Neolithic residents of the cave ate wheat and cultivated barley, olives, lentils and wild pear, among others. They ate some meat, mostly from domesticated sheep and goats (which account for 60 percent of the bones found), and also kept cattle, pigs and at least one dog.About 11 percent of the bones found at the cave belong to deer, wild boars, bears, hares, wildcats and badgers, all of which were hunted. Bones from a bear, for example, astoundingly still bear knife marks.
The community also made its own jewelry, drilling holes into deer-like teeth and shells from the nearby river. The remains of beeswax were also found in the community. The newest findings show that an estimated 43 people lived in Theopetra Cave during the Neolithic era."

"According to the paleopathological analysis of the human bones of the Neolithic period found, the estimated 43 people who lived at that time in the cave seem to have been quite healthy, the archaeologist reported.

The abandonment of the cave by its occupants around 4,000 BC is most likely associated with natural phenomena as well as with the exploitation of the land for cultivation.
The force of the water that entered the cave through the karst pipes towards the end of the Neolithic era and the detachment and collapse of large pieces from the roof, again due to erosion, probably pushed the occupants out of the cave in search of another place of residence, Dr. Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika noted."

We have caves like this too, at Equi Termi near me, but they were used so continuously that ancient remains were scattered.
 

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