A later Neolithic enclosed settlement now on a tiny island, formerly a promontory adjacent to the Cycladic island of Antiparos. The community that lived here <4200-3700 be lived largely by tunny fishing, although farming was also practised. Tanged points of Melian obsidian were common, as was painted pottery, with white designs on a dark ground. Parian marble was used to produce stylized fiddle-shaped idols, ancestral to the better known figurines of .he later Cycladic Bronze Age.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied