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After the scarce evidence available for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, known from sporadic findings made in northern Greece, in Boeotia and in the Peloponnese, a notable increase in the archaeological documentation allows us to distinguish in the Neolithic, later than the Middle Eastern but more ancient of the Balkan, two aspects: that of Crete and that, more recently, of Greece continental. Already in the most ancient phase, the so-called pre-ceramic or aceramic Neolithic (7th millennium BC), the people settled on…

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Greek belongs to the Indo-European language family (see Indo-Europeans). That it has more intimate relations with the Italic group than with other languages ​​was believed in other times by illustrious glottologists such as A. Schleicher, Greece Curtius, GI Ascoli. Today this doctrine can be said to be definitively outdated, despite the attempts made by some philologists (W. v. Christ, E. Cocchia) to put it back in honor. It could only be proved true by the agreement of the two linguistic…

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