CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Magna Graecia, Prehistoric Italy, Bronze Age
27 Sep 2017
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Lecture 3 pre-roman italy: background, italy was less developed than greek and near eastern civilizations in the. Mediterranean, but because of her rich agricultural lands, it was a destination of choice for colonization by immigrants: indo europeans ( latins, samnites. Periodization of prehistoric italy: pleistocene: 2,000,000 glacial period, 900,000 stone age (=later part of pleistocene, evidence: archaeology: material culture, cave sites verona, arrezo, nomadic hunters & gatherers annalistic history also called. Annals: neolithic (late or new stone age) 4/3000-2,000, apulian = neolithic culture in italy, homogeneous culture, contacts with balkans. Farming, permanent settlement: chalcolithic (copper age=very end neolithic) 2,000-1,800, farming, limited trade, lake dwellers (lived in po valley; houses on stilts, cultural contacts with balkans and central europe, bell beaker folk: itinerant traders: bell beakers. 2: 1800 bc: bronze age in italy (nb 3,500 in greece, apenninic = bronze age culture in italy, characteristics:
