Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces
Reinhard Jung and Eleftheria Kardamaki (ed.)
City: Vienna
Year: 2022
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Mykenische Studien 36
Description: Hardback, 324 p., numerous b/w and colour figures, 29.7 x 21 cm
Abstract
The Late Bronze Age Mycenaean palaces in southern and central Greece stood at the head of the earliest state system on the European continent. The authors, all leading scholars in Bronze Age research and often engaged in excavating the palace sites themselves, focus in their contributions on the most recent progress in pottery studies, in order to arrive at precise relative chronological dates of the destruction events. The investigated archaeological sites range from Crete in the south to the Peloponnese with the palaces of Pylos, Ayios Vasileios, Mycenae and Tiryns and further north to central Greece with the palace of Thebes, while contemporary sites on Cyprus and in Syria are taken into consideration as well.
A precise chronology of those multilayered sites is a precondition for placing the administrative texts from the palace archives in a historical sequence as well as for writing the building history of the palaces themselves. Ultimately, this chronological sequence must also form the backbone of each theory seeking to explain the causes of the palace destructions and their final abandonment. The search for those historical causes is subject of this publication as well. The book contains primary data from the investigated sites – in many cases illustrating the relevant archaeological finds for the first time. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the topic and is based on the most recent archaeological excavation results.
Contents
Abbreviations [7-8]
Preface [9-10]
Reinhard Jung – Michaela Zavadil
Introduction [11-34]
Reinhard Jung – Eleftheria Kardamaki
On Shaky Ground: Petsas House and Destruction at Mycenae in LH IIIA2 [35-48]
Kim Shelton
Turning Points in the Ceramic Sequence of the Northern Tip of the Lower Citadel at Tiryns [49-96]
Soňa Wirghová
Kadmeia, Thebes: The Pottery from a Storeroom Destroyed at the End of the Mycenaean Palatial Period [97-120]
Eleni Andrikou
The Destructions of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos and Its LH IIIA Predecessor as a Methodological Case Study [121-148]
Salvatore Vitale – Sharon R. Stocker – Jack L. Davis
Pottery and Stratigraphy at Iklaina in the 14th–13th Centuries BC [149-160]
Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
The Destruction at the Palace of Ayios Vasileios and Its Synchronisms [161-192]
Adamantia Vasilogamvrou – Eleftheria Kardamaki – Nektarios Karadimas
The Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery in the Palatial Period [193-208]
Vasco Hachtmann – Sofia Voutsaki
LM IIIB Ceramic Regionalism and Chronological Correlations with LH IIIB–C Phases on the Greek Mainland [209-230]
Jeremy B. Rutter
The Demise of the Mycenaean Palaces: The Need for an Interpretative Reset [231-254]
Joseph Maran
Synchronizing Palace Destructions in the Eastern Mediterranean [255-322]
Reinhard Jung
Index [323]
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