I'm always amazed by the workmanship on these ancient buildings, tilework, bricks etc. I made that observation in Italy and my wife said, well of course it's nice it may have been someone's life time work.
Aegean Dendrochronology ProjectA well-preserved juniper post, painted blue and with modern door hinges, was recovered from a modern village house simply because it looked suspiciously old. The sample we were given did not fit anything in our Neolithic inventory, so we sent a piece of it to Heidelberg to see what radiocarbon analysis would reveal. The date is 2117 B.C. +/-110 years, which means it is from some Early Bronze Age occupation near the lake at Kastoria.
December 1998 Progress Report
by Peter Ian Kuniholm