Aegean civilizations

The term Aegean culture was dominated by the nationalist art historians Reinhold von Lichtenberg and is no longer in use in research. Lichtenberg understood including the cultural area of ​​the Aegean Sea before the alleged migration of Greek tribes in the area. It covers a period from the start of today would be the late Neolithic to the middle Bronze Age, ie from around 3000 to around 1500 BC.

The Aegean culture included:

  • Vormykenische the population on the mainland of the Early and Middle Helladic period
  • The pre-Grecian civilization on Crete, so that the early and middle period of the Minoan civilization
  • The Cycladic civilization of the early and middle period
  • The " pre-Greek " culture of Asia Minor west coast
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