Narrative and Community in Dark Age Greece: A Cognitive and Communicative Approach to Early Greek Citizenship

Some Remarks on the Problems of Researching Art in Archaeology using the Examples of Prehistoric Figurines and Attic Geometric Pottery

“…Thereafter, I refer to Vincent Farenga (1998), who argues that some recognition of cognitive and communicative skills of communities inhabiting the Greek world in the Early Iron Age might be achieved by tracing the different ways in which time and space were imagined and also how contemporary people viewed themselves within that frame. Literary evidence from Antiquity combined with anthropological research clearly indicate that the understanding of time and space as well as people's actions within them focused on ancestors who combine the presence and the past to solve primary material and existential social dilemmas.…”