The "Agyasma" site discovered near modern village of Makrigialos in N Greece was a flat -lying Late Neolithic settlement. It was more popular type of Neolithic settlement than tell type sites.
Pydna was first mentioned by the Greek historian Thucydides The remains of the ancient polis from the classical, Hellenistic and possibly pre-Greek periods are partly under the Byzantine walls.
Sources:
- Maria Pappa and Manthos Besios, The Neolithic Settlement at Makriyalos, Northern Greece: Preliminary Report on the 1993-1995 Excavations, in: Journal of Field ArchaeologyVol. 26, No. 2 (Summer, 1999), pp. 177-195
- The Neolithic Settlement at Makrigialos – Pieria-https://europe-greece.com/greek-history/prehistory/stone-age/the-neolithic-settlement-at-makrigialos-pieria/
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, I.137.1
- Pliny the Elder, The Natural History IV.17
- Léon Heuzey, Honoré Daumet: Mission Archéologique de Macédoine. Paris 1876. https://archive.org/details/missionarcheologiquedemacedoine/page/n7/mode/2up