CLST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lerna, Wace, Northern Greece

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 303
• Professor: Anne Foley

Document Summary

Relative: the two pictures of fruit, you know one is older than the other due to mold but you don"t know the dates. Absolute: there is a numerical date ascribed to the building pictured. Absolute dates derived from egypt and mesopotamia are available, but there are very few. Dates for the early helladic are very uncertain, unlike above. 3300 1100 bce: dating of bronze age is problematic. Not every area in greek had a submycenaean period. Alan wace and carl blegan were responsible for dating the helladic bronze age. January 11, 2018: excavated mycenae (wace) and pelos (blegan) and found a lot of pottery shards, broke up helladic into 3 phases eg. early, middle, late. Arthur evans was responsible for dating the minoan bronze age: excavated on crete, broke it up into 3 phases ie. early, middle, late. Central greece: evia (euboea, attica, central greece eg. boeotia. All the three subdivided helladic, mycenaean, and cycladic phases are then further subdivided.