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.)