CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Boeotia, Lefkandi, Anatolia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Lecture 8: the dark ages (migrations & the alphabet) Huge palaces w/ their great circuit walls of megalithic construction. Most indicators of wealth: gold & silver vessels, inlaid daggers, ivories & carved sealstones. Tablets inscribed w/ linear b disappear & ability to write is lost for 500 yrs (until the intro of alphabet from east) Pictorial art of walls, pottery & small luxury items. In the place of palaces are: unfortified settlements w/ handful of small houses built w/ rubble walls & mud. There was also an introduction of tech for foraging iron. Uninspired repertory of pottery, no luxury goods & subsistence economy. Use of cremation alongside the continuing practice of inhumation (*burials are individuals rather than in groups) Word (cid:862)geo(cid:373)etric(cid:863) is used to defi(cid:374)e pottery style & e(cid:374)tire period it was use. Eventually, lots of new pottery shapes appears - mostly painted black w/ bands or panels or decoration.