ATS1248 Lecture 1: LECTURE 1 - EARLY IRON AGE
17 Oct 2018
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Lecture 1: the end of the bronze age and early iron age in greece. Formed part of a network of late bronze age cultures that spread around eastern. Sophisticated cultures - writing system (linear b writing on unfired clay so they can easily dispose of records), systems of exchange, storage, political organisation, palaces, record keepings. Hittites once kingdom collapses, so will international trade network (secure exchange would become threatening place) Once trade dries up, so will businesses (palaces) reduced resources (e. g. weaponry ) Copper but no tin no bronze. Bronze is preferable to iron, but need for resources (swords ) results in emergence of iron (ca. The poor are hard to find archeologically compared to wealthy (artefacts are usually easily perishable e. g. wooden plates and utensils) Euboia important place in greece during iron age, spread of greek colonies around. Mediterranean and black sea was driven by euboia. Xeropolis/lefkandi one of few sites in greece with continual occupation from the early.
