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Neolithic Sites in Europe

Important Neolithic Sites in Europe

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Sweet Track (UK)

Sweet Track is the earliest known trackway—constructed footpath—in northern Europe. It was built, according to tree ring analysis of the wood, in the winter or early spring of 3807 or 3806 BC: this date supports earlier radiocarbon dates of the early 4th millennium BC.

Swifterbant (Netherlands)

Swifterbant is the name of the type sites of the Swifterbant culture, a Late Mesolithic and Neolithic culture located in the Netherlands, and including the wetland regions between Antwerp, Belgium and Hamburg, Germany between ~5000-3400 BC.

Vaihingen (Germany)

Vaihingen is an archaeological site located on the Enz river of Germany, associated with the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) period and dated between about 5300 and 5000 cal BC.

Varna (Bulgaria)

The Balkan Copper Age cemetery site of Varna is located near the resort town of the same name, on the Black Sea in coastal Bulgaria. The site includes almost 300 graves, dated to the early fourth millennium BC.

Verlaine (Belgium)

Verlaine is an archaeological site located within the Geer river valley in the Hesbaye region of central Belgium. The site, also called 'le Petit Paradis' (Little Paradise) is a Linearbandkeramik settlement, where at least six to ten houses set in parallel rows have been found, dated to the latter part of the LBK cultural phase (i.e., second half of the sixth millennium BC).

Vinca (Serbia)

Vinča (also known as Belo Brdo) is the name of a large tell, located on the Danube River in the Balat Plain about 15 kilometers downstream from Belgrade in what is now Serbia; by 4500 BC, Vinča was a flourishing Neolithic agricultural and pastoral farming community,

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