HIS 2101 Lecture Notes - Bronze Age, Bull-Leaping, Kernos
18 Apr 2014
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Rise of the minoan palaces (neopalatial/ early late bronze age) lm-i. Large place at knossos, and large centers malia, and phaistos. Neopalatial seals begin to get extremely intricate images could be seen as ritual or religious themes (like evans) Emerging as an important trading center, and begins to become a central part of the aegen trade: possible because a lot of the anatolia destruction (either from war or natural disaster) Middle bronze age marker for crete gets use less in the later bronze age. 18 year old male with bound feet, and a dagger next to him possible ritualistic sacrifice: broken rhyton infront of the dead male (possibly to collect his blood) Statue with clay feet was found (rest of it was probably wood and thus perished) Found human bones near a food area could possibly show that there could possibly be canabalism minoans are violent. Snake goddess earth goddess (though snakes that emerge out of the earth)
