CLA 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Southern Federal District, Messapian Language, Caspian Sea

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2103
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Cla 2103 italian prehistory: italy before the romans. Lived in huts on sills in water around ravenna ( ellers") Receding of water, since much of italy was underwater, began in the. Bell beaker (similar to an urn) folk: iinerant merchants traded from. Spain, africa, italy, sardinia, sicily, & central europe: bronze age culture in italy is called apenninic. Characterisics: homogeneous culture, connecions with balkans and. Spain, bronze (alloy of copper and in) technology, praciced inhumaion (buried their dead), slipped potery. People are more sophisicated because in was procured from far away places so that meant people were able to do more trade, etc. Economy based on agriculture, stuck breeding and transhumant pastoralism (moving animals seasonally) There is bronze age potery in rome (forum boarium --> oldest part). However, no evidence of a permanent setlement in rome unil 1000 bce. Bronze age in greece begins in 3500 bc: late bronze age: shows signs of change.