CLA2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Knapping, Neolithic Revolution, Steatopygia
17 Apr 2016
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Reading: early greece pt 1 (on blackboard), c/f p. 24-29. Palaeolithic hellas = hesiod"s golden age: 40,000 - 10,000 bce: climate, diet, lifestyle, franchthi cave, peloponnese (pelops) Mesolithic hellas changes in: diet, new stones for tools, obsidian (melos), andesite (aegina) quern, new mode of transportation. Neolithic hellas: hesiod"s silver age (10,000 - 6,000 bce) Neolithic revolution: agriculture = permanent settlements, domestication of grain = need for storage = pottery. Neolithic thessaly: hellen, jason, magoules, housing: hearth, wattle & daub. Middle neolithic = sesklo (c/f p. 26-27: settlement characteristics. Secondary products revolution: secondary products, textile: loom weights, new use for domestic animals, prometheus (c/f p. 29, pottery characteristics (c/f p. 28 and eg p. 8, steatopygous figurines (eg p. 8; c/f p. 28) Late neolithic: dimini: megaron (plan: c/f p. 28 and eg p. 6, pottery (c/f p. 28, burial customs: inhumation, cremation, domestication of grapes & olives = change of lifestyle (c/f p. 10 and 11)
