To the west of ancient Pydna and southwest of the current village, stretches the Neolithic settlement of Makrygialos, one of the largest prehistoric settlements in Greece.
It is a flat and extremely extensive settlement of the latest Neolithic period (5300 - 4500 BC) which developed in two distinct phases and its total area is estimated at around 500 acres.
During the 1st phase the settlement was surrounded by a double moat system. Inside this enclosure were found groups of houses in a sparse arrangement. The houses are circular, semi-subterranean huts, a type of house first encountered in Greece during the later Neolithic period.
In the 2nd phase of the settlement, the layout of the buildings was dense, but the same type of building is found, i.e. circular huts with foundations deep in the ground so that they are semi-subterranean.
In the settlement, during the excavation, foundations of clusters of houses, broken pieces of clay vessels, stone tools from a wide variety of raw materials and small tools were found. Clay or marble figurines, charred seeds and abundant animal bones were also found.
Editor: Fotini Anastasopoulou