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THE DARK AGE IN NORTHERN GREECE 3: 1000-900 BC |
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| Older theories suggested major changes ? Northern influence | ||||||
| New finds support belief in continuity. | ||||||
| Still relatively few sites: most cemeteries seem to postdate 900 | ||||||
| CEMETERIES | Torone, Dion, Kouko, Barc, Kuc-i-zi, | |||||
| Both inhumation and cremation observed | ||||||
| Tumulus burials near Dion, Barc, Kuc-i-zi, flat graves at Torone | ||||||
| Early Proto-Geometric style pottery in use | ||||||
| Local hand made brown burnished pottery | ||||||
| Matt painted wares at Dion | ||||||
| Bronze wire ornaments - spectacle fibulae, bracelets etc | ||||||
| SETTLEMENTS | Kastanas, Assiros, Axiochori (Vardaroftsa), Toumba Thess. | |||||
| thriving well organised communities still living on top of toumbas | ||||||
| Assiros still provided with perimeter wall at summit | ||||||
| Continuity of use of street from Ph5(BA) - Ph4(IA) at Assiros | ||||||
| Kastanas problem LH IIIC (mid) and PG in same level (Schicht 12) | ||||||
| Assiros | Post-framed houses, narrow mudbrick walls | |||||
| Phases 4-1.5 | larger rooms than BA 6x4m, in pairs ? room+yard | |||||
| pottery and cupboards in rooms, loom in use (Ph 2) | ||||||
| circular clay hearths in yards, scattered storage | ||||||
| Kastanas | ||||||
| Schicht 12-7 | V. similar rooms and structures to Assiros | |||||
| Pottery | Bronze Age tradition continues | |||||
| ware | Brown burnished, hand made but harder fired | |||||
| shapes | Wishbone handle bowl (1-h), 4-h jars, cutaway neck jugs | |||||
| 1/2-h cooking pots in coarse ware, no cooking stands | ||||||
| decoration | minimal - neat incised with pendent triangles, knobs | |||||
| channelling present in first IA levels at Kastanas and | ||||||
| Assiros, but very rare - tens of sherds not hundreds | ||||||
| some wheelmade | grey ware 1-h cups | |||||
| PG amphora with concentric circles at Assiros (PH3) c 950 BC | ||||||
| continuing use of `Mycenaean' tradition at coastal sites such as Toumba and Kastanas | ||||||
| recognisable early PG imitations at Toumba, and Kastanas | ||||||
| SANCTUARY | Poseidi - open air, ash deposits, | |||||
| enclosure and altar may be erected in this period | ||||||