CLA362H1 Lecture Notes - Volcanic Glass, Lerna, Knossos
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Stone age: plaeolithic- mesolithic- neolithic [300 000- 3000] Bronze age: early- middle- late bronze age [3000-1200] 250 000 years bp of a stone axe (no evidence of activity prior to the stone axe. Mesolithic: deer, snail, small/large fish, nuts [meaning that they practiced sailors ex. going to melos acquiring obsidian (volcanic glass). They had rapid changes in global climate of dry/cold wet/warm climate [environmental change] Neolithic: deer, snail, small/large fish, nuts, domestic animals and grain. [meaning that they had their own package" of domestics meaning they had tools for agriculture but still hunt and gather. Farming without irrigation or draft animals : francthi therefore was a place they settled all year round. Middle= 2000-1700 mcii= middle cycladic ii [island of cyclades ex. Late= 1700/1600-1100 lh iiia2 [late hellenistic 3(sub period) in greek mainland peloponnese] So instead of dating confusion- symbols were used. On thera, they found lm1a pottery but no lm1b.