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8,800-Year-Old Farming Houses Unearthed on Gökçeada: A First for the Aegean Islands

8,800-Year-Old Farming Houses Unearthed on Gökçeada: A First for the Aegean Islands

Archaeologists on Türkiye’s westernmost island, Gökçeada (ancient Imbros), have uncovered a discovery that rewrites Aegean prehistory: the earliest farming architecture ever found on any of the Aegean Islands. Excavations at the Uğurlu-Zeytinlik Mound revealed five domestic structures dating back 8,800 years, placing the site alongside Crete’s Knossos as the only known Neolithic settlements of the