AR225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Helladic Period, Mica, Olive Oil
11 Nov 2014
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House of tile c. 2200bce, corridor house, because it had an exterior of corridors, for purposes of access to and from house as well as stairways leading to 2nd floor. Large number of seals found, accumulation of wealth during time period. Show settlement was important in region in recording, processing and distribution of commodities. Decline in wealth except for kolonna, aegina (traded gold mica ware pottery); rich shaft grave of male, boars tusks from helmet, gold diadems. Items are symbols of male power and authority and may signify beginnings of concept of kingship. Also that rich shaft graves from later mycenae were not an anomaly but the product of a long tradition origins of the greeks. Invasion of 1st greeks ca. 2000bce non-greek word used by later greeks: 1400/1375bce linear b tablets, earliest certain evidence for greeks in greece. Important for showing transition from paleolithic to neolithic period. Theory of colin renfrew of info european migration from anatolia, greek language developed slowly.
