Summary: In this episode, we leave the realm of myth and trace the development of early human activity in Greece, culminating in the domestication of plants and animals and the rise of the earliest villages ca. 200,000 BC - first hominid skull found in Greece (at the Petralona Cave) ca. 50,000 BC - Neanderthals migrate into the Balkans ca. 40,000 BC - the first Homo Sapiens (the Cro-Magnons) wipe out Neanderthals mysteriously ca. 20,000 BC - earliest Homo Sapiens evidence in Greece can be found at the Franchthi Cave ca. 10,000 BC - end of Paleolithic Period/last Ice Age ca. 7,000 BC - agriculture reaches Greece ca. 5,000 BC - Neolithic villages develop in Macedonia and Thessaly at Nea Nikomedeia, Sesklo, and Dimini ca. 4,000 BC - metallurgy reaches Greece
