First Temperate Neolithic

The First Temperate Neolithic (FTN) is an archaeological horizon consisting of the earliest archaeological cultures of Neolithic Southeastern Europe, dated to c. 6400–5100 BCE.^[1] The cultures of the FTN were the first to practice agriculture in temperate Europe, which required significant innovations in farming technology previously adapted to a mediterranean climate.^[2]

The constituent cultures of the FTN are:^[1]

• the Criş culture, c. 6400–5200 BCE, Romania;
• the Karanova I/II culture, c. 6300–5100 BCE, central and southern Bulgaria;
• the Kőrös culture, c. 6400–5100 BCE, eastern Hungary;
• the Macedonian First Neolithic, c. 6600–5300 BCE, Macedonia;
• the Poljanica group, c. 6300–5200 BCE, northeast Bulgaria;
• the Starčevo culture, c. 6200–5200 BCE, Serbia, Bosnia, eastern Croatia and western Hungary;
• and the West Bulgarian Painted Ware culture, c. 6200–5200 BCE, western Bulgaria.

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