Poliochne - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Poliochne - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Poliochne, often cited under its modern name Poliochni (), was an ancient settlement on the east coast of the island of Lemnos. It was settled in the Late Chalcolithic and earliest Aegean Bronze Age and is believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Europe, preceding Troy I.Luigi Bernabò-Brea, ed. (the head excavator) Poliochni, città peristorica nell' isola di Lemnos, (Scuola Archeologica di Atene Rome, vol. I (1964), having assigned arbitrary color-names to the strata, coordinated Troy I with the third period (Verde) of Poliochne; vol. II was published Rome, 1976. Anatolian features of the earliest layers were affected by cultural influences from Helladic Greece, about the start of Early Helladic II, ca. 2500 BC. Read more on Wikipedia
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