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Apr 2016
15m 56s

003 The Stone Age

RYAN STITT
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In this episode, we leave the realm of myth and trace the development of early primate/human activity in Greece in the Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age), culminating in the domestication of plants and animals, the rise of the earliest villages, and the development of metallurgy in the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age)

Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2016/04/003-stone-age-greece.html

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