The First Temperate Neolithic (FTN) is an archaeological horizon consisting of the earliest archaeological cultures of Neolithic Southeastern Europe, dated to c. 6400âÂÂ5100 BCE. The cultures of the FTN were the first to practice agriculture in temperate Europe, which required significant innovations in farming technology previously adapted to a mediterranean climate.
The constituent cultures of the FTN are:
* the StarÃÂevo culture, c. 6200âÂÂ5200 BCE, western Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, eastern Croatia and western Hungary;
* the KÃ
Ârös culture, c. 6400âÂÂ5100 BCE, eastern Hungary;
* the CriÃ
 culture, c. 6400âÂÂ5200 BCE, Romania;
- the Karanovo I/II culture, c. 6300âÂÂ5100 BCE, central and southern Bulgaria;
- the Macedonian First Neolithic, c. 6600âÂÂ5300 BCE, North Macedonia;
- the Poljanica group, c. 6300âÂÂ5200 BCE, northeast Bulgaria;
- the West Bulgarian Painted Ware culture, c. 6200âÂÂ5200 BCE, western Bulgaria.
- the VinÃÂa culture, c. 5400âÂÂ4500 BC, Serbia and near countries
See also
References