ARTH 2150 Lecture 3: ARTH 2150 Lecture 3.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 2150
• Professor: Andrew Sherwood

Document Summary

Megaron/ra plural, means large house or large building on sites. Anatolia central and eastern turkey with copper minds. Hissarlik modern day troy (on a tel [man made artificial hill]) Hellespont the straight btwn the mainland and troy, from the aegean sea to the black sea. Evidence of humans in greece around the paleolithic period (1,700), and flint axe remains have been found even farther back (120,000) Around 8,000 bc this wandering existence because some focal shelters and seasonal sites with more sophisticated tools (8,000-6,000) We start to find obsidian, for more sophisticated tools. Obsidian volcanic glass, holds a much sharper edge for tools. Obsidian is not found in mainland greece, must be imported. (coming from the cycladic islands) Obsidian tools found in the franchthi cave mesolithic to the neolithic period. They obviously had boats and maritime trade to get it. Sesklo cave has obsidian in it too.