CLA230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Minos, Minoan Pottery, Cretan Hieroglyphs
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Bronze age (3,000 -1,200 bc) early bronze age. Protohistory things starting to be built with iron (tools, etc) Not an easy place to hunt and gather. Ex. of early prehistoric site as representative as what we imaging life was like for others: Inhabited more or less continuously for close to 20,000 years. People lived, ate, worked (cleaned animal parts, made fires, died, gave birth) there. Obsidian -- fro(cid:373) melos reall(cid:455) durable, sharp, cutting stone (best kind for the hunter- gatherers(cid:895) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t the(cid:455) had to sail and trade. Important -- tells us that, certainly by this period, that the agricultural revolution has arrived. Hunter-gatherers driven towards areas that work better for agriculture, or just driven away by the new agricultural societies. Times when hunter-gatherers come into contact with agricultural societies -- hunter-gatherers lose -- less protein, carbs, etc. = population growth, population features of modern society. Less a(cid:374)d less e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e for hu(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d gatheri(cid:374)g .
