The Prehistory of Greece: c 10,000 - c 1550 BC
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The Early Helladic Period
The Cyclades were settled around 4000 BC, and by 2750 BC the inhabitants were using copper daggers and spearheads, the first in Greece to do so. The beginning of the Aegean Bronze Age is usually dated around 2600 BC. The peoples of the Cyclades also made female statuettes in a geometric style out of marble found on the islands. They started to form small towns. On their pottery they sometimes depict men in boats. They buried their dead in chamber tombs cut out of rock or built from stone. The dead were frequently buried with weapons. They traded with Crete and the Greek mainland. Their culture fused with that of the other peoples and is known as Early Helladic. It is likely that the knowledge of copper working came from Mesopotamia, where by 3000 BC cities and governments had formed and wars between city states created a demand for copper to be alloyed into bronze. Around 2900 BC the Menes from Upper Egypt conquered the Delta and founded the First Dynasty. At the same time settlers from the Cyclades seem to have migrated as far west as Spain and settlements have been found in Almeria in Iberia that follow the pattern of town planning in the Cyclades.
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Contents of
The Prehistory of Greece: c 10,000 - c 1550 BC
1 The Neolithic Age in Greece
2 The Early Helladic Period
3 Troy I
4 Migrations into Greece c. 2500 BC
5 Minoan Civilisation
6 The Greek migration
7 Megaron
8 Middle Helladic Age
9 The Aegean Bronze Age: The Minoan Civilisation: c. 2000 - 1550 BC
10 The golden age of Minoan Crete
11 Volcanic eruption on Thera c. 1600 BC
12 Crete and Mycenae
13 The amber route
14 The Religion of Minoyan Crete
15 The Linear B Tablets of Knosos
16 Relations between the mainland and Crete
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