Editing History of Albania (section)

=== Mesolithic & Neolithic ===
[[File:Shpella e zeze - Pellumbas.jpg|250x250px|thumb|right|The Cave of Pellumbas near [[Tirana]], used as a settlement for ancient humans during the [[Middle Paleolithic]] period.]]
The first traces of human presence in Albania, dating to the [[Middle Paleolithic]] and [[Upper Paleolithic]] eras, were found in the village of Xarrë, near [[Sarandë]] and [[Mount Dajt|Dajti]] near [[Tirana]].<ref name="Boardman">[https://books.google.com/books?id=vXljf8JqmkoC&pg=PA187 ''The Prehistory of the Balkans; and the Middle East and the Aegean world, tenth to eighth centuries B.C.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226083143/https://books.google.com/books?id=vXljf8JqmkoC&pg=PA187 |date=26 December 2022 }} John Boardman p.189–90</ref> The objects found in a cave near Xarrë include flint and jasper objects and fossilized animal bones, while those found at Mount Dajt comprise bone and stone tools similar to those of the [[Aurignacian culture]]. The Paleolithic finds of Albania show great similarities with objects of the same era found at Crvena Stijena in [[Montenegro]] and north-western [[Greece]].<ref name="Boardman" /> There are several [[archaeological site]]s in Albania that carry artifacts dating from the [[Neolithic Europe|Neolithic]] era, and they are dated between 6,000 and the end of the EBA. The most important are found in [[Maliq]], [[Gruemirë (settlement)|Gruemirë]], [[Malzi|Dushman (Dukagjin)]], on the [[Erzen]] river (close to [[Shijak]]), near [[Durrës]], [[Ziçisht]], [[Nepravishtë]], [[Finiq]], and [[Butrint]].<ref name="Adhami1958">{{cite book|author=S. Adhami|title=Monumente të kultures ne Shqiperi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jCFmwEACAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Mihal Duri|page=15}}</ref>