ANT201H5 Lecture 12: ANT201 - Week 12
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Mycenaean greece 1600 1200 bc covered in ch 11 interacing with more poliically powerful to the east had an impact. 2500 1150 bc: controlled a major trade route. 1900 1400 bc emerged as mariimes city states. 1700 1400 bc: territorial state, mariime trading network setlement patern, urban centres, e. g. knossos - complex place. Monumental architecture: specialized buildings, elite residences: palaces occupaional specializaion, intensive agriculture. Mainly wheat & barley, with olives: ship building, poters, arists; e. g. frescoe, minoan potery. Most famous: toreador" fresco, knossos: minoan ladies in blue . Not in any state of submission to men egalitarian ladies are elite were heavily into fashion. Mortuary pracices: elite tholos" tomb record keeping, linear a script. 1600 1200 bc setlement system: independent city states, e. g. mycenae (biggest and most powerful), pylos, tiryns setlement patern, urban centres, heavy defensive walls militarisic, citadel, mycenae very defensible. Monumental architecture: specialized buildings, elite residences: palaces occupaional specializaion, intensive agriculture areas around city, land-based trade: amber.
