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How or why was the name Cyclades formed |
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The Cyclades,so named because they form a circle are a group of islands in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. |
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What were some of the typical trades of the Cyclades? |
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Many of the inhabitants of the Cyclades were acoomplished sailors, fisherman, and traders. They also hunted and farmed. |
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why is said that the Cycladic culture is essentially prehistoric> |
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The Cycladic culture is essentially prehistoric because of the absence of a writing system. |
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How the accounting for the Cyclades occur? |
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Scholars relied on physical evidence and written accounts dating from the later, historical period of Greece (beginning around 900 B.C.)to account fo the Cyclades. |
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How did Herodotos describe the inhabitants of the Cyclades? |
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Herodotos described the inhabitants of the Cyclades as notorious pirates, But, the earliest surviving artistic evidence of Cycladic culture dates from the Bronze Age |
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What is the reason people beieve that figures of females were more numerous than those of males? |
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It is assumed that there were more female figures than males because females were carried in religious processions. |
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what was unique about the female cyclade figure |
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the female figures could not stand on its own. |
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Describe the female cycladic figure |
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The large female has long, thin proportions, with the breasts and pubic triangle accentuated. the view from the side show that the idol forms a carrow vertical, extending at the back from the top of the head to the hips. Legs and feet fall into 3 slight zig zag planes and the angle of the feet make it impossible for them to support the statue. frin the front , geometric sections, the head is slightly curving, rectangle long pyramidal nose. |
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