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The First Temperate Neolithic (FTN) is an archaeological horizon consisting of the earliest archaeological cultures of Neolithic Southeastern Europe, dated to c. 6400–5100 BCE.^[1] The cultures of the FTN were the first to practice agriculture in temperate Europe, which required significant innovations in farming technology previously adapted to a mediterranean climate.^[2]

The constituent cultures of the FTN are:^[1]

the Starčevo–Kőrös–Criș culture, encompassing:

the Starčevo culture, c. 6200–5200 BCE, western Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, eastern Croatia and western Hungary;
the Kőrös culture, c. 6400–5100 BCE, eastern Hungary;
the Criş culture, c. 6400–5200 BCE, Romania;

the Karanovo I/II culture, c. 6300–5100 BCE, central and southern Bulgaria;
the Macedonian First Neolithic, c. 6600–5300 BCE, North Macedonia;
the Poljanica group, c. 6300–5200 BCE, northeast Bulgaria;
the West Bulgarian Painted Ware culture, c. 6200–5200 BCE, western Bulgaria.
the Vinča culture, c. 5400–4500 BC, Serbia and near countries

^ ^a ^b Chapman, John (2000). Fragmentation in Archaeology: People, Places, and Broken Objects. London: Routledge. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-415-15803-9.
^ Nandris, John (June 1970). "The Development and Relationships of the Earlier Greek Neolithic". Man. New Series. 5 (2): 192–213. doi:10.2307/2799647. JSTOR 2799647.