Chronology, Ancient Greece

Greece, Chronology (700 kya-1100 BC): Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Dark Age

Palaeolithic (700 kya)

700 Petralona Cave (Macedonia)
200-70 Homo heidelbergensis (Mac)
98.50 Asprochaliko rockshelter (Gr)
22-10.3 Franchthi Cave (Argolis)

Neolithic (7000 BC)

7000 Knossos (Crete)
6850 Sesklo (Thessaly)
6200-5300 Nea Nichomedeia (Macedonia)
6000 Argissa (Thessaly)
6000 Orchomenus (Boeotia)
5500 Elateia (east Central Greece)
5000 Lerna (Argolis)
5000 Tiryns (Argolis)
4800 Dhimini (Thessaly)
4500 Pefkakia (Thessaly)
3650-1100 Minoan Civilisation (Crete)
3300 Kolonna (Aegina)
3200 Lefkandi (Euboea)

Bronze Age (3000 BC)

3000-1st Century Troy (Asia Minor)
3000-1100 Cycladic Civilisation
2800-1100 Helladic Period
1900 Palace period (Crete)
1900 Minyan ware
1600 Thebes (Boeotia)
1600 Eruption on Thera (Cyclades)
1600-1110 Mycenaean Civilisation
1200 Destruction of Troy (AM)

Dark Age (1100 BC)

1100-1050 Sub-Mycenaean pottery
1100-1000 Dorian Occupation
1050-950 Migrations to Asia Minor
1050-900 Protogeometric pottery
930-221 Eurypontid Dynasty (Sparta)
930-215 Agiad Dynasty (Sparta)
900 Athens (Central Greece)
900-700 Geometric pottery
808-310 Argead Dynasty (Macedonia)
800 Calaurian Amphictyony (Saronic Gulf)
800 Al Mina (Asia Minor)
800-500 Rise of the Polis
776 First Olympic Games
775 Pithecusae founded (Italy)
756 Cyzicus founded (Asia Minor)
756 Trapezus founded Asia Minor)

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