395+396 First Neolithic Settlements Flashcards

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What are examples of early Neolithic settlements of Greece that consisted of separate, small rectangular buildings, contrasting with the agglomerated architecture of south-central Anatolia

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Argissa in Thessaly, Nea Nikomedeia in Macedonia

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Where is Argissa

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Thessaly

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3
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Where is Nea Nikomedeia

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Macedonia

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How tall was the Neolithic tell of Karanovo in southern Bulgaria

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1.5 m

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Where did tell settlements appear during the sixth en fifth millennia BCCE

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Eastern Hungary, the Vojvodina, Bosnia, northern Croatia, the lower Danube Valley

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What kind of houses were being built during the sixth and fifth millennia BCE?

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More complex, divided internally into several rooms. Clay models of furniture survive, indicating something of the internal arrangements

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What has been found at Achilleion in northern Greece

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Fragments of 200 zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figurines

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To when does the earliest dated figurine found in Achilleion date?

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Seventh millennium BCE

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Where is Achilleion

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Northern Greece

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How can the human figurines found in Achilleion be described?

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Many have no indication of gender, but where sex is shown it is predominantly female, with emhasis on hips, breasts, and belly

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By what are traditional interpretations in terms of a “godedess” cult at Achilleion contradicted?

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By evidence that the figurines are not axclusively female, and their identification as deities or even ancestors is far from sure.

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When were tell settlements abandoned?

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In the middle of the fifth millennium BCE

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Where did the period c. 4000-32000 BCE see a dramatic development in the establishment of impressive Tripolye settlements?

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Ukraine

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What period in Ukraine saw a development in the establishment of impressive Tripolye settlements?

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c. 4000-3200 BCE

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In the Ukraine, the period 4000-32000 saw a development in the establishment of what kind of settlements?

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Tripolye or Trypillia

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16
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Other word for Tripolye

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Trypillia

17
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Up to how many inhabitants did sites such as Maydanetske and Taljaky have?

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5,000-8,000

18
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From what period were the sites Maydanetske and Taljanky

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4000-3200

19
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What two sites have been labeled “mega-sites” and dubbed “Europe’s first towns”

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Maydanetske and Taljanky

20
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What has the demise of the sites Maydanetske and Taljanky been linked to

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Environmental changes, a greater emphasis on pastoralism, and the expansion of the Yanmaya steppe communities