Cycladic culture

It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture.

The Cycladic culture was influenced by societies in the east, importing the pottery wheel from Mesopotamia.

So does the first significant Aegean group: the Cycladic culture after 2800 BC.

The culture of mainland Greece contemporary with Cycladic culture is termed Helladic.

Cycladic Culture At around 3500 b.c. , a sophisticated culture evolved in the Cyclades islands.

Early Cycladic culture evolved in three phases, between ca. 3300 - 2000 BC, when it was increasingly submerged in the rising influence of Minoan Crete.

Prehistoric sculptures were usually human forms, such as the Venus of Willendorf and the faceless statues of the Cycladic cultures of ancient Greece.

Simultaneously but unrelatedly, c. 2200 BC in the Aegean region, the Cycladic culture decays, being substituted by the new palatine phase of the Minoan culture of Crete.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat female idols carved out of the islands' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age ("Minoan") culture arose in Crete, to the south.