The first people arrive in the area during the Late Neolithic period (3500-3100 BC) as proven by the handmade pottery scattered all over the site and on the scarce earth floors belonging to constructions that didn’t survive. These were likely small huts from branches and mud that perished without leaving trace.

After 3100 BC follows an extended period of abandonment that lasts more than a thousand years. The marble Cycladic figurine of that period probably reached the area by chance.

Life resumes in the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 BC) and we find water-wells and houses’ foundations, fragments of pottery, loom weights, few workshop implements and a double chambered ceramic kiln.

Architectural remains dated in the Late Bronze or Mycenaean period (1600-1100 BC) have not been located in the excavation. However, the continuous use of certain wells, a few pits with broken pots and pottery from across the area indicate that the site was not abandoned. Perhaps it was one of the small settlements that developed south of the Acropolis’ hill, at the top of which was the local ruler’s palace that served as the administrative and religious city centre.