CLST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carians, Thucydides, Knossos
19 Oct 2016
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Secondary products revolution, 11 000 5000 bc. Surplus production of communities goes to chief and can spend this on other things like the work of craftsman. Why would anyone opt to live in these urban areas: leaders, dreams, fulfilling dreams, religion. 6500-6000: neolithic marble figurine of a standing nude female figure from sparta (c. 5000-4000 bc, this extraordinarily well preserved sculpture impressively renders in stone an image frequently executed in clay at this early date. Franchthi cave: continuous habitation from 18 000 bce-3000 bce, cave has provided invaluable archaeological evidence about life in early greece. Artifacts from the franchthi cave: a female figure, and painted and incised pottery. Big men and emerging hierarchies in the stone and bronze ages. Around the middle bronze age (2100-1600 bc) the first greek speakers entered greece, bringing with them a language derived from the indo-european family of languages.
