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Cycladic Society 5000 years ago<\/h1>

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITION<\/p>

DECEMBER 8 2016 – APRIL 9 2017<\/p><\/header>

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THE EXHIBITION<\/h2> <\/header>\n\n \n
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\n What was Cycladic flora and fauna like 5000 years ago? What were the nuclei of Cycladic society? How was Cycladic society stratified? How did the islanders subsist? (farming, animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, farming?) Did the islanders practice shipbuilding, weaving, and basketry? What were their forms of entertainment? What role did music, drink, and dance play in their lives? What were their rituals and cults? What do we know about their religious beliefs?
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In 2016, the Museum of Cycladic Art celebrated 30 years of creative presence with an exhibition entitled \u201cCycladic Society 5000 Years Ago,\u201d which was open from early December 2016 to late March 2017. Since there are no known written documents that survived from the Early Cycladic period, this exhibition attempted to \u201cread\u201d in a simple and straightforward manner the social structure, activities, living environment, and, where possible, convictions and beliefs of the Cycladic islanders in the Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BC) through their creations. \u03a4he exhibition was organized by the Museum of Cycladic Art in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades, and housed 191 ancient artifacts: from its own collections, but also from the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades (98 artifacts from the Museums of Naxos, Apeiranthos, Syros, and Paros), as well as from the National Archaeological Museum and the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was organized with the financial contribution of the Associated Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Foundation.<\/p>\n

Cycladic figurines, in their present form, with their simple shape and clean outline, became popular because of their abstract art by artists from the 20th-century like Modigliani, Brancusi, Matisse, and Picasso. Viewed first as works of art, they were often presented in a strictly typological manner (meaning that they were organized with regard to their shape and morphological characteristics), without reference to their creators\u2019 cultural environment. The \u201cCycladic Society 5000 Years Ago\u201d exhibition aimed to fill that void and explore the daily life and undertakings of the Cycladic islanders 5000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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