Qualla: Ftelia https://qualla.com/ftelia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/ftelia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ftelia https://qualla.com/ftelia Ftelia: Introduction https://qualla.com/ftelia/ Photo credit Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0. The windsurfers skimming across Ftelia bay have no idea what lies beneath the sand they launch from. The wind that draws them, a near-constant gale off the north of Mykonos, is the same wind that scoured this shore seven thousand years ago, when a small village of farmers built their houses of granite rubble on what was then a fertile coastal plain. The sea has risen ten metres since, drowning their fields, and the place lay forgotten until 1992. What the excavations found here rewrote part of the story of how civilisation began in the Aegean.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/ftelia-wp/swdj-ftelia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ftelia: A Village Older Than Memory https://qualla.com/ftelia/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. The settlement at Ftelia belongs to the Saliagos culture of the early Final Neolithic, and radiocarbon dating places it between roughly 5000 and 4500 BC. Discovered in 1992 and excavated from 1995 onward, the site has given up wall foundations, mountains of pottery sherds, stone ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/ftelia-wp/swdj-ftelia-a-village-older-than-memory.mp3 0:06 2 full Ftelia: The Earliest Gold in the Aegean https://qualla.com/ftelia/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most startling find was metal. The metalworking at Ftelia has been dated to the early fifth millennium BC, possibly the earliest in the Aegean. A gold artefact, copper objects, and at least one example of copper ore came from the earliest building phase. One small circular go...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/ftelia-wp/swdj-ftelia-the-earliest-gold-in-the-aegean.mp3 0:06 3 full Ftelia: Farmers Who Brought the Mainland With Them https://qualla.com/ftelia/ Photo credit Squirmy2000 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. These were farmers first. More than half of all the food remains found here come from grass pea, their staple, followed by lentils, with barley the only grain they grew. They kept sheep and goats, knew pigs and cattle, and supplemented their diet by hunting deer. The strange part...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/j/ftelia-wp/swdj-ftelia-farmers-who-brought-the-mainland-with-them.mp3 0:06 4 full Ftelia: A Hub Between Worlds https://qualla.com/ftelia/ Photo credit Jeremy Avnet (brainsik), Public domain. For a small village on a poor island, Ftelia reached remarkably far. It is now considered the most important known Late Neolithic settlement in the Cyclades, ahead even of Saliagos itself, and its position made it a hub for the exchange of techniques and materials, especially obs...

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