This is my portrayal of a woman from the Neolithic village of Nea Nikomedeia in the region of Macedonia, which dates to around 6250 to 6050 BC. As a Neolithic farming culture, the people of Nea Nikomedeia would have grown crops like wheat and barley and raised livestock such as sheeop, goats, pigs, and cattle. Despite their sedentary and agricultural lifestyle, they would not have developed metal tools yet.
Like most Neolithic farmers in southern Europe, these villagers would have traced most of their ancestry to migrants from the Anatolian peninsula (modern Turkey). However, some physical anthropologists such as J. Lawrence Angel have remarked on the people of Nea Nikomedeia’s skeletal remains as showing some physical traits indicative of African ancestry, which might suggest admixture with North African peoples.