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ˌproto-geoˈmetric, a.
Also proto-Geometric and as one word.
[f. proto- + geometric a. d.]
Designating the period preceding the Geometric Age in Greece, or the pottery attributed to this period, contemporaneous with the collapse of Mycenæan civilization on the mainland and the period of cultural decline that followed it (c 1100–c 900 b.c.).
1926Cambr. Anc. Hist. IV. xvi. 580 Between the flourishing of the Creto-Mycenaean civilization, and the geometric period proper, there lies a long period which has been named, not very happily, the proto-geometric: a period of cultural decay. 1933Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. LIII. 162 Cremation first appears in connexion with the proto-Geometric style in pottery. 1939J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iv. 243 This type of tomb, square with a circular vault above, continues in Lasithi and the neighbourhood into Proto-geometric times. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments i. 42 Simple as the proto-Geometric culture is, it marks a period, not of decline, but of renascence. 1953Antiquity XXVII. 75 The Protogeometric iron sword of about 30 inches long, when new, was quite as effective for cutting as for thrusting. 1961Oxf. Mag. 16 Feb. 232/1 The earliest Proto-geometric wares found at Smyrna can be dated about 1000 B.C. 1973J. Boardman Greeks Overseas (ed. 2) i. 3 The finds in Athens cemeteries show that after a very short while, probably by about 1050 b.c., the new ‘Protogeometric’ style of vase-painting had been evolved from the debased Mycenæan forms. |