CLST 129 Lecture : CLST 129 NOV 5.docx
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Linear b is very intense, they count and weigh and describe everything. Linear b has similar symbols as linear a. Lots of different kinds of pot which they write down. Linear b had both symbols and actual letters. Hieroglyphics were used at the same time as linear a, but then they give up on them. Linear a was used after the destruction of knossos. Appears later then it does on crete despite it being a main land language. Linear b developed at knossos by the mainland greeks when they took over. Dude deciphered linear b, died in a car accident. Long time where there was no writing. Always water in the middle of the islands and the volcano forced the islands further apart. Another eruption 197 bc which caused palaia. 1866 made thera bigger, same with 1925. Compared to the eruption of 1883 in indonesia, though the thera one was much bigger.