 Settlements dating to the aceramic Neolithic in the 7th millennium BC, used cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and dogs as well as domesticated cereals and legumes; ancient Knossos was the site of one of these major Neolithic (then later Minoan) sites.Other neolithic settlements include those at Kephala, Magasa, and Trapeza.Crete was the centre of Europe's first advanced civilization, the Minoan ().