The Birth of the Greek Polis
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DESTRUCTION OF THE MYCENAEAN PALACE SYSTEM AND EFFECTS |
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| 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 | ||||||||