Thessaly and Macedonia relations during the Early and Middle Neolithic

Saturday, May 30, 2015, 12:30pm – 12:50pm
Presented by Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Anastasia Dimoula, Gazmed Elezi, Trisevgeni Papadakou, Anna Papaioannou, Niki Saridaki, Ioanna Siamidou, Teresa Silva, Eirini Tzemopoulou, and Kostas Kotsakis
In track III. INTERACTIONS AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES

Based on the pottery analysis of sites from central and western Macedonia, it can be argued that there is a close connection between these regions and Thessaly during the Early and Middle Neolithic. However this wide network of communication may have been remodeled as manifested through pottery. For instance, sites like Revenia, Ritini and Varemenoi Goulon during the Middle Neolithic appear distinct from Paliambela Kolindros. In this paper we shall present data from sites from the areas of Pieria and the middle reaches of the Aliakmon River, both morphological as well as data from petrographic thin section analysis.