### L1455 farming lifestyles in the Aegean Sea > As far as we can tell from the very limited data, the earliest farming villages often lay on bluffs overlooking major bays with good water supplies close at hand. This may have maximized opportunities for fishing, an important supplemental food source for people short of good arable land. The pattern changed dramatically after 3500 B.C.E., when islanders began to settle in small one- or two-family farmsteads close to patches of arable land and colonized smaller, rugged islands such as Erimonisi. - [[Beyond the Blue Horizon by Brian Fagan#L1455 farming lifestyles in the Aegean Sea|View in Vault]]