For the earlier times, radiocarbon dating of organic remains and charcoal offers some dates. Based on this, it is thought that Crete was inhabited from about 130,000 years ago, in the Lower Paleolithic,Hemingway, Seán, Art of the Aegean Bronze Age, p. 25, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 2012 Volume LXIX, Number 4 perhaps not continuously, with a Neolithic farming culture from the 7th millennium BC onwards. The first settlers introduced cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs, as well as domesticated cereals and legumes.
For the earlier times radiocarbon dating of organic remains and charcoal offers some dates. Based on this, it is thought that Crete was inhabited from about 130,000 years ago, in the Lower Paleolithic,Hemingway, Seán, Art of the Aegean Bronze, Age, p. 25, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 2012 Volume LXIX, Number 4 perhaps not continuously, with a Neolithic farming culture from the 7th millennium BC onwards. The first settlers introduced cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs, as well as domesticated cereals and legumes.