Souskiou Cemetery
View from the Cemetery.
I wonder what the view would have looked like back in the day?
And in case you were wondering, "the day" would have been around 3000 BC. I found this quote about the cemetery from the official website:
It seems likely that visibility both to and from the cemetery was a factor in choice of location for the Chalcolithic peoples.
5000 Years Old
If like me you have no idea who the Chalcolithic People were, this will help:
Chalcolithic Europe, the Chalcolithic (also Aeneolithic, Copper Age) period of Prehistoric Europe, lasted roughly from 3500 to 1700 BC.
It was a period of Megalithic culture, the appearance of the first significant economic stratification, and probably the earliest presence of Indo-European speakers.
The economy of the Chalcolithic, even in the regions where copper was not yet used, was no longer that of peasant communities and tribes: some materials began to be produced in specific locations and distributed to wide regions. Mining of metal and stone was particularly developed in some areas, along with the processing of those materials into valuable goods.
This is a side view of the raised stone area. Does this gap indicate that the area used to be bigger?
Now, going back to that definition on the previous page, we see that Chalcolithic People had learned how to make things in one place for use elsewhere. IE, they had factories. The archaeologists we met informed us that not only was there this cemetery here, but that there was also a settlement where they used to make things to put in graves.
Well, they used bigger words than that but I think that's what they meant.
A Handy Map
The archaeologists also showed us this map. We were currently standing by Laona Cemetery. Further along the ridge there was this settlement. Across the canyon was another cemetery.
So Let's Explore!
With that in mind, we set off looking for the old settlement. That hill looked promising...
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