The LHI pottery is known from the fill of the shaft graves of Lerna and the settlements of Voroulia and Nichoria (Messenia), Ayios Stephanos, (Laconia) and Korakou. Table 1 provides the approximate dates of the Late Helladic phases (LH) on the Greek Mainland. Historians have traditionally blamed this decline on an invasion by another wave of Greek people, the Dorians, although the historical validity of this theory is now doubted. During this period Greece experienced decreasing population and they lost their literacy. Numerous cities were sacked and the region entered what historians see as a dark age. Mycenaeans were buried in a sitting position, and some of the nobility underwent mummification.Īround 1100 BC the Mycenaean civilisation collapsed. The nobility were frequently buried with gold masks, tiaras, armour, and jeweled weapons. They often buried daggers or some other form of military equipment with the deceased. The Mycenaeans buried their nobles in beehive tombs ( tholoi), large circular burial chambers with a high vaulted roof and straight entry passage lined with stone. The Mycenaean era script is called Linear B. Around 1400 BC the Mycenaeans extended their control to Crete, center of the Minoan civilization, and adopted a form the Minoan script called Linear A to write their early form of Greek. Mycenaean civilization was dominated by a warrior aristocracy.
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