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Definition of Cycladic culture

1. Noun. The Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycladic Culture

Literary usage of Cycladic culture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greek Islands by Anne Midgette (1999)
"In the early Bronze Age, the islands were the seat of a Cycladic culture (3000-23(X) BC) which ... Superceding Cycladic culture was the rise on Crete of the ..."

2. Korakou: A Prehistoric Settlement Near Corinth by Carl William Blegen (1921)
"Again, none of the fiddle-shaped marble figurines so characteristic of Cycladic culture have yet been brought to light at ..."

3. A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age: In the Department of British by Charles Hercules Read (1904)
"There was no abrupt division between the Cycladic culture and that which was to succeed it; the transition between the two is gradual, and the remains found ..."

4. Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology by Percy Edward Newberry, John Linton Myres, Thomas Eric Peet, John Percival Droop (1908)
"... wishes to see a connection with Cycladic culture. But although the tomb contained beaked jugs—one with the so-called ' butterfly-pattern,' common in ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... settlement and shared in that earlier Cycladic culture which is best known to us from the finds at ..."

6. Rhodes by Florian Fürst (2001)
"The Cycladic culture (3200 - 2000 BC) On the archipelago of the Cyclades unique marble statuettes, 10-150 centimeters high, ..."

7. Corinth: The Centenary, 1896-1996 by Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis (2002)
"The EH H period at Corinth begins with a second fruitful phase of close contacts with Early Cycladic culture, the “Second ..."

8. The People by J. L. Angel (1971)
"... 1964, 1966a), are first evidence of settlement and the beginning of the Cycladic culture, a little before the start of the Early Bronze Age. ..."

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