CLST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heinrich Schliemann, Hisarlik, Indo-European Languages
18 Oct 2017
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28 days, and then after 12 months, just add a bunch of extra days so it looked same as it was when 12 months started. Different greek cities used different ways of dating. Decide this year was 2017 because of abstract idea of when jesus was born. Vast majority of people in antiquity didn"t know how old they were. Look at ages people put on their death, ages default to 10, 20, Don"t have reliable sources for when something happened. If we do have reliable source, hard to tell what person means by when something happened. Able to come up with precise, relative times for progression of pottery. Piece of pottery might break but can still find piece of it. Reconstructive pots so can find what it is a piece of. Find items in archaeological sites, where we can identify context. Anyone who is writing anything down about events that are happening does have their own agenda.
