Classical Studies 1000 Lecture 1: Week 1.1
28 May 2018
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Classical Studies 1000: Ancient Greece & Rome
Week 1: Sources
1. Material Sources
• Architecture
• Artefacts – Tools
– Pottery vessels
– Votive offerings
•Ecofacts (or Biofacts)
– Animal bones
– Plants
•Cultural landscape
– Settlement patterns
Archaeological Dating Methodology
• Relative Dating
– Stratigraphy (study of layers)
– Seriation (artefacts arranged in chronological order)
Archaeological Dating Methodology
• Absolute Dating
– Radiocarbon Dating (C14 in organic material)
– Dendrochronology (tree-ring dating)
– Thermoluminescence dating (for crystalline minerals)
The way we date...
• 14A.D.(C.E.)
• 776B.C.(B.C.E.)
• 20th cent.
• 1st cent. A.D.
• First quarter of 2nd cent. A.D.
• 5th cent. B.C.
•Second quarter of 5th cent. B.C.
2. Written Sources
• Different materials
– Clay, stone, metal, papyrus, parchment
• Different genres
– Inventories
– Legal text
– Commemorative inscription
– Literature (epos, lyric, tragedy, comedy, oratory, philosophy, etc.)
