Chapter 19. Palioskala. A Late Neolithic, Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement in the Eastern Thessalian plain (Central Greece)

Introduction The settlement of Palioskala (53.66 m above sea level at the highest point) is situated on the eastern edge of the enclosed Pleiocene Thessalian basin, in the foothills of Mt Mavrovouni, which like Mt Ossa to the north, separates the plain of Thessaly from the Aegean Sea (fig. 1). The most important natural feature in this part of the basin was Lake Karla, known in ancient sources as Boebeis. This lake was the result of a Pleistocene tectonic subsidence, which had its greatest de..