The pile field at the site of Dispilio. Almost 800 piles, mostly made of juniper and oak wood, were sampled and dendrochronologically measured. This data forms the basis for the high-precision dating of this site. Dispilio is the first archaeological site to be dated to a precise year using the Miyake event of 5259 BC. Credit: Dispilio Excavation Archive Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of early farmers in northern Greec...