ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
AGIOU NIKOLAOU

TIMELINE

NEOLITHIC ERA

Aceramic

6800 - 6500 B.C.

Earlier Neolithic

6500 - 5800 B.C.

Middle Neolithic

5800 - 5300 B.C.

Later Neolithic

5300 - 4500 B.C.

Final Neolithic (Sub-Neolithic)

5300 - 4500 B.C.

Early Bronze Age

Early Minoan I

3200/3000 - 2600 B.C.

Early Minoan II

2600 - 2300 B.C.

PREPALATIAL PERIOD
Early Minoan III

2300 - 2100 B.C.

PREPALATIAL PERIOD

Middle Bronze Age

Middle Minoan Ι

2100 - 1900 B.C.

PREPALATIAL PERIOD
Middle Minoan ΙΙ

1900 - 1700 B.C.

PREPALATIAL PERIOD

Late Bronze Age

Middle Minoan ΙΙΙ

1700 - 1580 B.C.

NEOPALATIAL PERIOD
Late Minoan Ι

1580 - 1450 B.C.

NEOPALATIAL PERIOD
Late Minoan ΙΙ

1450 - 1400 B.C.

NEOPALATIAL PERIOD
Late Minoan ΙΙΙ

1400 - 1070 B.C.

POSTPALATIAL PERIOD
Subminoan

1070 - 1000 B.C.

POSTPALATIAL PERIOD

Greek - Roman Period

Protogeometric period

1000 - 850 B.C.

Protogeometric Period B

850 - 810 B.C.

Geometric period

810 - 700 B.C.

Orientalizing or Daedalic or Early Archaic Period

700 - 600 B.C.

Archaic period

600 - 500 B.C.

Classical period

500 - 323 B.C.

Hellenistic period

323 - 67 B.C.

Roman period

67 B.C. - 330 A.D.

Early Byzantine period

Early Byzantine period

330 - 565 A.D.