Early Bronze Age in the Cyclades

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5200-3100 Late and Final Neolithic
earliest known Cycladeans in 5th millennium

early Cycladic no corridor houses, or megara
smaller settlements, more egalitarian
no chiefdoms, tribute from surrounding areas, hereditary power

must have been communication among islands, because many populations of individual islands too low to be independently sustainable

Campos group, notable for frying-pan shaped objects
Kastri group, monochrome burnished ware

cist graves

Cyclades centers selected for trade networks, not arable land, and not even bays (canoes could be drawn up on any foreshore)

MBA
shift toward arable land, nucleation of a few sites, good harbors
origins of sailing ships in between the Nile and the Levant, 3rd millennium if not earlier
Aegean contacts with this area increase around 2000 BCE, sailing ship is introduced
presumably would have changed island culture

also, more influence from Crete around this time