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The neolithic settlements
extended all over Greece , with the greatest concentration in the Plain of
Thessaly , where the two most important settlements are located , Sesklo and
Dimini. The arrangement of the dwellings with thei streets and squares of the
settlement constitute the first architectural and town-planning forms on
European ground.
After neolithic man had provided for the basic goods of his
daily life, he turned to the outside world and developed extensive commercial
transactions.
The find of obsidian from Melos and other imports in the
mainland give clear evidence of the wide development of seafaring in the Aegean
Sea from the very beginning of the Neolithic period.
One of the most
significant achievements of that period was the craft specialisation. The
necessity of house equipment with tools, pottery, weaving and matting products
led to the first craftsmen, who transmitted their craft from generation to
generation. In the Late Neolithic Period the processing of metalls is
consolidated.
 The
permanent residence leads to the institution of family and other social and
communal institutions.
Articles such as tools , vases vessels, jars , domesticated animals belonged to
private properties, while sheep-folds, corp barns , places of public use and the
fortifications of settlements were obviously under the authority of the
community.
These unwritten institutions of private and communal property
were legated to the humanity since then and are effective almost unchangeable
until nowadays.
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