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After roughly 3 miles(5km) tahe the road for Acapulco/Esentepe and turn left into the Acapulco Holiday complex. On the rocky promontory above the restaurant is the Neolithic site of Vrysi/Vrysin.
This settlement dates to circa 4000BC and was inhabited for about 1,000 years. A preliminary investigation was made in 1969 and excavations began in 1672. It consists of houses, with only one room each, built partially underground, connected together by passages. This headland was selected owing to the depth of soil where the people could excavate hollows into which they built their stone houses. Floors were of plant fibres and wooden beams supported the roofs of reed thatch.
The finds include fragments of painted pottery,stone lamps,grinders, hammer stones, stone pillar figures and over 250 bone needles. It was the custom of this people to bury there that beneath the floors of there houses. |
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