The oldest human activity at the School of Homer site on Ithaca dates to the late Neolithic period (5th-4th millennium BCE), with dozens of flint artifacts and hundreds of pottery fragments recovered. Interestingly, the bulk of ceramics found there actually comes from the later Hellenistic and early Roman periods. 🏺
Bronze Age Mycenaean evidence found at School of Homer on Ithaca
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Key facts
- The oldest evidence of human activity at the School of Homer comes from the final Neolithic period, late 5th to 4th millennium BCE
- Several dozen flint artifacts and several hundred pottery fragments were found from the Neolithic period
- The largest volume of ceramic material dates to the Hellenistic and early Roman periods
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