Middle Stone Age Greece

We don't know much yet about the people of Greece in the Middle Stone Age. They still lived mainly from gathering and hunting. They still did not farm or use metal or build houses. They lived in caves.
They seem to have sailed on the Mediterranean Sea in small boats made of reeds and animal skins. We think this because they used tools made of obsidian, and you can't get obsidian on the Greek mainland. The nearest place where there is obsidian is on the Aegean islands between Greece and Turkey, so either the mainland Greeks were sailing to the islands to get obsidian, or the islanders were sailing to Greece to sell it to them.

To find out more about Greece in the Stone Age, check out these books on Amazon.com or in your local library:

The Stone Age: What Life Was Like for the Earliest Humans, by Philip Steele (2000). Ages 9-12; includes instructions for projects.

Eyewitness: Early Humans, by Nick Merriman (2000). Ages 9-12, with great pictures.

The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction, by William Biers (revised edition 1996) This is NOT a children's book, but Biers writes very clearly and has a lot of good pictures.

The Early Neolithic in Greece : The First Farming Communities in Europe (Cambridge World Archaeology), by Catherine Perlès and Norman Yoffee (Editor) (2001).

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