CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture 2: Lecture Two - Typology & Bronze Age
12 Oct 2016
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Classifying objects into groups in order to provide a date outside of a specific excavation context. Establishing a type can help determine the date of an entire stratum. Understanding the chronological & geographic placement of specific artifacts within a greater typology allows us to define: Style: characteristics of appearance used to classify objects into groups. Style helps to identify cultural & chronological changes and connections: similar style = same culture group, style changes very slowly overtime. Typology of amphorae (vessels for storing & transporting goods: different styles with different numbers & organized in a linear chronology, geographical context, chronological context, over time they gradually change style or production method. Changes in style indicates: different groups, different dates of production, different aesthetic effects, different visual idioms. Ba = period following development & use of bronze, the primary metal used: a way of conceptually identifying broad cultural developments using technological developments (i. e. , the production & use of bronze)
