Relative and Absolute Chronology

The term ‘Protogeometric’ (PG) was first introduced by Schweitzerin 1917 to define a style of pottery which was different from both the previous Sub-Mycenaean (SM) and the succeeding Geometric. This stylistic sequence was confirmed by Kraiker and Kübler’s important publication in 1939 of the finds from the Kerameikos cemetery in Athens which marked the beginning of the study of the PG period and allowed them to identify the stylistic development of the pottery within it. Kraiker, in his account of the Kerameikos cemetery, divided the PG material into phases, using a stylistic analysis of the pottery as the basis for his divisions. These were termed ‘Transi tional’ from SM to PG, ‘Early’, ‘Ripe’, and ‘Late’. His stylistic analysis was mainly based on the development of vase shapes: from vases with a globular profile, as found in the Transitional and Early phases, to the better-made and better-proportioned vases of the Ripe stage. This development reaches its highest point during the Late phase when vases appear with a slender ovoid body.

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