The Birth of the Greek Polis

DESTRUCTION OF THE MYCENAEAN PALACE SYSTEM AND EFFECTS

The Palaces have:- Fortified centres
Major architecture
Decoration
Adminstration
Linear B
Manufacturing pottery
metalwork
luxuries ivory
jewellery
faience
Trade Egypt
Levant
Italy
Influence Macedonia
Italy
Destruction by fire
at one period ?
Cause Dorian invaders
Sea Peoples
civil unrest climatic change
economic collapse
Effect disappearance of `palatial' characteristics
abandonment of palace sites - Pylos
abandonment/reduction of towns
population movement ?
fragmentation
Loss of palace architecture
writing
administration ?
fresco painting
luxury goods eg stone vases
faience
seal stone manufacture
trade with Egypt
Levant
Continuity of:- most settlements
pottery styles
collective burial in chamber tombs
weapon types
jewellery forms
trade with Cyprus
Macedonia
Italy
religious practice Tiryns
Phylakopi
figurine types
Innovations - appearing already in late LH IIIB ?
`European' types Naue II sword
Short socket spearhead
Violin bow fibula
Peschiera dagger
Trunnion axe
Increase in use of amber
Hand made burnished wares
Occasional cremation

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