CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cycladic Culture, Minos, Helladic Period

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Lecture 3: early bronze age hellas - the arrival of the greeks. Many cultural innovations in archaeological found out that new technology brought by new people coming to greece. For example change in burial customs - from individual graves to tombs. Also new pottery forms & many neolithic shapes and designs disappear. Larger house w/many rooms & corridors; settlements protected by fortification walls & towers. Islands of aegean produced cycladic culture - named after groups of islands the cyclades. Cycladic culture was recognized by its pottery & marble vessels and figurines. Island of naxos & paros have white marbles and used it for vessels and figurines making. *usually female pregnant figures w/ facial features - make them appear more modern. Traces of painted decoration - recovered from graves & are not steady. Other examples depict male musicians - either standing playing flute or seated w/ a lyre. In southern island of crete - inhabitants were exposed to more advanced civilizations.