Archeologists find 6,500-year-old farming village in central Greece

ATHENS, Greece — Archeologists have discovered the ruins of a 6,500-year-old farming settlement in an antiquities-rich area of central Greece.
The discovery was announced by the Culture Ministry on Thursday.

The finds include remains of houses built of wood and unbaked clay bricks, together with pottery vases, ovens and stone tools.
The Neolithic-era remains were discovered during work to lay a gas pipe near the village of Vassili in Thessaly, some 280 kilometres north of Athens.
Thessaly’s fertile plains attracted some of Greece’s first farmers, and the ruins of several large, thriving settlements have been excavated in the area over the past 150 years.
Among the ruins, archeologists found large quantities of pottery, including many painted vases, stone axes and scrapers, bone tools and a small number of terracotta figurines.