The Cyclades and a mysterious advanced society lost to time :
Around 3,000 BC, sailors from Asia Minor became the first to settle on the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. These islands were rich in natural resources such as gold, silver, copper, obsidian and marble, which helped these early settlers achieve a certain level of prosperity.
This richness allowed for the arts to flourish, and the distinctiveness of Cycladic art is perhaps best demonstrated by their neat and minimalistic sculpture, which is among the most distinctive art produced in the Bronze Age in the Aegean.
These sculptures were produced from 3,000 BC to 2,000 BC when the islands became increasingly influenced by the Minoan civilization based on Crete.
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These early immigrants most likely grew barley and wheat and fished for tuna and other fish in the Aegean Sea. Many of them have survived modern-day theft and vandalism, but others, such as those on the island of Keros, were deliberately demolished in ancient times.
Did the religious beliefs of those who found him on the island of Keros have anything to do with such an action? To the best of our knowledge, the people living in the Cyclades Islands did not worship the Olympian gods when they were first introduced in the second millennium BC.
Importance and purpose in Cycladic society :
Cycladic culture refers to the ancestral Greek culture of the Cyclades islands of the southern Aegean Sea, comprising the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. As mentioned earlier, the Minoan civilization was part of the Cycladic culture. Between 3,200 BC and 2,000 BC, a remarkably advanced civilization flourished there, from which many important discoveries were made on these ancient islands.
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