CHRONOLOGY

Earliest Evidence Seasonal Gatherers 40,000 End of Ice Age: Permanent Residents 12,000 Domesticated animals, pottery/bead industry 6,000 Bronze Age 2800-1100 Crete dominated Mainland til 1400 when Knossos destroyed Mycenae became dominant 1400-1200 (Trojan War end 12th cent) Sub-Mycenaean Pottery 1100-1000 Proto-Geometric Pottery 1000-900 Mycenaean Inspiration/Geometric Pattern 1st animal figure 975-950 Geometric Pottery 900-700 (balanced composition) Early 900-825 (1st human figures) Middle 825-750 Late 750-700 (heroic stories)

Notes: cremation the norm for 10th-8th centuries; burial begins end 8th cent. Sub-Mycenaean 1050-1025 BCE Sub-Mycenaean (Kerameikos 421) Vases ca 1100-950 BCE Proto-Geometric Amphora End 10th-Beginning 9th BCE Proto-Geometric Oinochoe Proto-Geometric Oinochoae Proto-Geometric Amphora Ca. 1000 BCE Proto-Geometric Amphora Proto-Geometric Amphorae Proto-Geometric Amphora (Kerameikos 560) 975-950 BCE Geometric Bronze Horse 750-700 BCE Geometric Centaur End of the 10th BCE Geometric Bronze Man and Centaur 8th BCE 4 3/8” H. Geometric Figurine Ca. 700 BCE 15.5” H Proto-Geometric Amphora (Kerameikos) 900-850 BCE Geometric 9th – 8th BCE Geometric Pyxis Geometric Pyxis Ca. 750 BCE Geometric Cup Water Birds Geometric wine pitcher (oinochoe) with inscription: “He who of all the dancers now performs most lightly [shall have me]” Late Geometric Dipylon Amphora 800-750 B.C.C. (Munich 6080) Geometric Crater Late Geometric Crater ca. 750 BCE (Athens 990)

Late Geometric Crater (detail) (New York 14.139.14) Geometric Amphora Late Geometric Oinochoe (Athens, Agora P 4885) Geometric Oinochoe Geometric Amphora Geometric Bowl Geometric Bowl Boeotian Late Geometric Cup 750-725 BCE Geometric Crater from Thebes (Toronto 919.18) Geometric Amphora (detail) Geometric Cup (skyphos) Ca. 770 BCE (Eleusis 741) Geometric Cup (skyphos) Ca. 770 BCE (Eleusis 741) Geometric Bowl

Late Geometric Kantharos (cup) (Copenhagen 727)