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Chapter 6 - Artefacts and Contexts

from Part II - The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

Jean-Claude Poursat
Affiliation:
University of Clermont-Ferrand
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

The transition from the Neolithic to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) does not see any major change in lifeways. Pottery and other forms of material culture carry on largely as before. The only significant development is in metallurgy, though it had already appeared in the Late Neolithic; and even here progress is somewhat slow, the east Aegean excepted.

Though regional differences were hardly weak in the Neolithic, they do nevertheless intensify from the start of the Bronze Age. Three regions clearly assert their identity – the Peloponnese, the Cyclades, and Crete – through particular characteristics in their architecture, funerary customs, pottery, and figurines. Chronological schemes use the common tripartite divisions (Early Bronze (EB) I, II, and III) but adopt separate terminologies according to region (Early Helladic (EH), Early Cycladic (EC), Early Minoan). The term ‘Early Bronze Age’, without further specification, is used in more peripheral areas such as northern Greece and the northeast Aegean islands.

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Further Reading

Alram-Stern, 2004: Alram-Stern, E. ed., Die Ägäische Frühzeit 2. Serie: Forschungsbericht 1975–2002. Vol. 2.2 Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland, mit Ausnahme von Kreta, Wien.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Broodbank, 2000: Broodbank, C., An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades, Cambridge.Google Scholar
Cadogan, 1986: Cadogan, G. ed., The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, Leiden.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Forsén, 1992: Forsén, J., The Twilight of the Early Helladics: A Study of Disturbances in East-Central and Southern Greece Towards the End of the Early Bronze Age, Jonsered.Google Scholar
Maran, 1998: Maran, J., Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr., Bonn.Google Scholar
Marthari, 2017 = Marthari, M., Renfrew, C., Boyd, M. eds., Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context, Oxford and Philadelphia, PA.Google Scholar
Minding the Gap’, Forum, in AJA 117, 2013, 527–97.Google Scholar
Renard, 1995: Renard, J., Le Péloponnèse au Bronze Ancien, Liège.Google Scholar
Renfrew, 2011: Renfrew, C., The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C., Oxford and Oakville (1st ed. 1972, London).Google Scholar

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