CLST 200 Lecture 3: CLST 200 Lecture 3
21 Jan 2016
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Week 1: early greece and the bronze age. Homeric age, relationship of the poems of the epic writer homer (1 author but most likely two different authors, one for iliad and other for odyssey) Classical greeks only had a small portion of the bronze age, of which has come from the homer poems. Begins wth the end of last major ice age, maximum ice sheet coverage around 16000 bce, 11000-12000 bce the ice melts. Start to see higher population densities, greater social organization, selective breeding of wild grasses (9000 cereal crops). Social organization is focused on agriculture, what it had obtained before, small hunter-gathers, find themselves outnumbered by agriculture settlements. Denser populations of agriculturists, farmers, have much more harsher disease regimes (hunters smaller, sparser) and precondition for disease (dense, lack of sanitation breeding ground) so contact = hunter-gatherers wiped out.
