CLST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Karfi, Knossos, Heroon
22 Mar 2018
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Seems like we have a whole new civilization that emerges with the protogeometric period: the bronze age civilization is gone. Some people take the dark age right down to the greek renaissance ca. Isolation: trade is still occurring, but in much smaller amounts. The main changes occurred at the top level of society: the bureaucratic system is gone; no more wealth and luxury, wealth and luxury was due to trade so, trade routes dissolving eliminates these, the palace economy. Ordinary people carried on in their villages and farm. You can parallel the dark age setbacks with the destructions at the end of the eh. Evidence for arts and crafts also very poor: rely almost exclusively on pottery. It looks like all the skilled craftsmen were eliminated: metalwork is of poor quality, along with the pottery. Phoenicians (levant) take over trade routes from the mycenaeans: piracy becomes a problem. A clear continuation from the granary class pottery from lh iii.
