ACHAIA
Palaeolithic period
800.000 – 10.000
Lower Palaeolithic800.000 - 200.000
Middle Palaeolithic200.000 - 35.000
Upper Palaeolithic35.000 – 10.000
Mesolithic 10.000 – 7.000/ 6.500
Stone tools of all Prehistoric periods and mainly of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic
have been collected at the north region of West Achaia.
Peiros River valley 250.000 – 40.000
Mavri Myti 80.000
Elaechori 35.000 – 30.000
In Mavri Myti and Elaeochori have been located two open – air sites.
These are habitation settlements from which only the stone tools have been preserved.
They are of great importance as open – air sites of Palaeolithic period are rarely found.
Choppers, chopping tools and pebble tools from Mavri Myti
before 80.000 (Middle Palaeolithic period)
Stone tools from Elaeochori
35.000 – 30.000 (between the end of Middle Palaeolithic and the
beginning of Upper Palaeolithic)
Neolithic period
6.500 – 3.000 B.C.
Early Neolithic
6.500 – 6.000 B.C
Middle Neolithic
6.000 – 4.500 B.C.
Late Neolithic
4.000 - -3.000 B.C.
East Achaia
Fruit-stand and cup with painted decoration from
Sylivaina Krathiou
Middle Neolithic period (6.000 B.C.)
Fruit-stand with painted
decoration from Sylivaina
Krathiou.
Middle Neolithic period
(6.000 B.C.)
Painted vases and clay and stone idols from Sylivaina
Middle Neolithic (6.000 B.C.)