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Definition of Cycladic civilisation
1. Noun. The Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC.
Generic synonyms: Aegean Civilisation, Aegean Civilization, Aegean Culture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cycladic Civilisation
Literary usage of Cycladic civilisation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"... in Thera shows that it belonged to the cycladic civilisation, which extended
from 2500 to 1600 PC, filling up the gap between Hissarlik and Mycenae. ..."
2. History of Ancient Pottery, Greek, Etrusean, and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters, Samuel Birch (1905)
"... in Thera shows that it belonged to the cycladic civilisation, which extended
from 2500 to 1600 BC, filling up the gap between Hissarlik and Mycenae. ..."
3. 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 (1901)
"... representatives of the ' Island, or Cycladic,' and the ' Mycenaean' civilisation
proper. The cycladic civilisation he proposed to identify with the ..."
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