CLA2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Andiron, Osci, Sicels

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA2104
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Italy was less developed than greek and near eastern civilizations in the. Mediterranean, but because of her rich agricultural lands destination of choice for colonization by immigrants: indo europeans ( latins, samnites oscans etc) who came in at interface of bronze andiron ages; greeks (800 magna graecia) and. In the bronze and iron ages nothing spectacular occurred in italy. Italy was culturally diverse- a stopping point for different migrations. The mountain ranges were not high enough to prevent travel through the peninsula, but were conducive to italian unity. 600,000 stone age (=later part of pleistocene) archaeology: material culture: cave sites verona, arrezo, nomadic hunters & gatherers. Neolithic (late or new stone age) 3000-2,000: neolithic culture in italy = neolithic apulian, homogeneous culture, contacts with balkans, farming, permanent settlement. Chalcolithic (copper age=very end neolithic) 2,000-1,800: farming, limited trade, lake dwellers (po valley houses on stilts, bell beaker folk: itinerant traders: bell beakers, cultural contacts with balkans and central europe.