FAH205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bull-Leaping, Heraklion, Knossos
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Friday, february 3, 2017: 3 cultures have their own dating system, each of those dating system are divided into their own, these can be all lumped into early, middle, late bronze age, 1. cycladic culture. Looking at the early period: 2. minoan culture. There is a signi cant division during 1700 bce when earthquake destroyed everything we have had: 3. mycenaean culture. Linear a tablet, c. 1450 bce: shows the inscribed lines on clay, there is a system of writing, the writing is helpful but we cant read it. Friday, february 3, 2017: 5th largest island, they grow their own food, fruit, graph, sea farming culture, south of crete, kommos excavated the site. Sir author evans: named it a palace from the start, calling it a palace does not line up with our ideas of a palace, wanted to see knossos. As it would have appeared during the new palace period.
