Classical Studies 3903 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Minoan Pottery, Minoan Chronology, Millennium Site

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3903
• Professor: Catherine Pratt

Document Summary

Early middle bronze age: the earliest contacts. Its unclear how the people had access to the objects: maybe sea connections with the harbours in the area, over land from knossos. Early minoan seal stones: the idea of this system comes from the near east. It is unclear how this practice made its way to crete at this time. Knossos: protopalace, long range connections, piece of eastern hippopotamus ivory tusk, royal egyptian stone bowls, knock offs of objects begin to appear, minoan hieroglyphics begin to appear in seal stones which indicates importance of communication. Mainland greece: small scale settlements / villages, connections to the cyclades and crete, focus on subsistence agriculture. Indicates the important of the site since a monument was erected. Pottery neolithic b levantine mega-sites if radically different in organization. : the biggest sites were only as big as the neolithic sites that had been found in the.