Aegean culture
The term Aegean culture was coined by the national art historian Reinhold von Lichtenberg and is no longer used in research today. Lichtenberg understood this to mean the cultural area around the Aegean Sea before the alleged immigration of Greek tribes into the area. It covers a period that can be seen today from the late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age , i.e. from around 3000 to around 1500 BC. Would begin.
The Aegean culture included:
- the pre-Mycenaean population on mainland Greece of the early and middle Helladic periods
- the pre-Greek culture in Crete , i.e. those of the early and middle period of the Minoan culture
- the Cycladic culture of the early and middle period
- the "pre-Greek" culture of the west coast of Asia Minor
literature
Bertelsmann. The new universal dictionary, Gütersloh 2007, ISBN 3-577-10298-5 , p. 22.
Web links
- Overview of the Stone Age and Bronze Age cultures of the Aegean ( Memento from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard von Lichtenberg: Influences of the Aegean culture on Egypt and Palestine (= communications of the Middle East Society 16/2). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1911; Reinhard von Lichtenberg: The Aegean culture ( science and education ). Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1918.