The Revolutions of Civilisation

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE PERIODS OF CIVILISATION IN EUROPE (13) The Ivth Period: The Early Cretan Age THIS period was contemporary with the IVth period of Egypt, and is the earliest that has yet been clearly disentangled in Europe. The remains parallel to the first three periods in Egypt still lie in the 21 feet of neolithic ruins at Knossos; this depth is a greater amount of accumulation than that which contained the ruins of the subsequent three periods of the Early, Middle, and Late Cretan Ages. I have to thank Dr. Evans for assigning the relative periods of many Cretan remains which do not appear in his printed Classification, and for supplying several illustrations. Of the Early Cretan Age the most important examples have not yet been published, those found at Mochlos. It is hardly practicable to show the growth and decay of art clearly from the published material; and we therefore only give here the remains from the tholos tomb at EUROPE. IVTH PERIOD. 10. Objects From Tholos Of Hagia Triada. EUROPE. Vth PEKIOU. 31. Polychrome Vase. Knossos. 32. Faience, Goat And Kids. Knossos. CIVILISATION IN EUROPE Hagia Triada. The seals (fig. 30) are primitive in style; the two dogs with leaf pattern are the best work here; the wavy band is apparently the earliest stage of the spiral patterns, which dominated the art of Europe in later periods. There is also an elaborate wavy band pattern on a square plaque. The figures are like those of the Egyptian prehistoric age, period II, having no arms, and the legs ending in a point. They show the earliest rise of figure-carving. The well-known Greek island figures from the Cyclades belong to this age. (14) The Vth Period: The Middle Cretan Age In the Vth period the main feature is the development of brilliant...

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ISBN: 1458936872

ISBN-13: 9781458936875

Publisher: General Books LLC

Year: 2015

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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