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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