Mycenaean

Catling, H.W., Blin-Stoyle, A.E. and Richards, E.E. (1963). Correlations between composition and provenance of Mycenaean and Minoan pottery. Annual of the British School at Athens 58 94-115. 

The most intense NAA study of archaeological ceramics has been focused on the Bronze Age Mycenaean and Minoan pottery of Greece and Crete, and related areas around the eastern Mediterranean (Mommsen et al. 2002). This work began in Berkeley, California, in the 1960s with the work of Perlman and Asaro (1969), who went on to analyze 878 shards of pottery. The results were never fully published according to Asaro and Perlman (1973, 213), the question of provenience of the vast quantities of Mycenaean wares has... 

Mommsen, H., Bier, T., and Hein, A. (2002). A complete chemical grouping of the Berkeley neutron activation analysis data on Mycenaean pottery. Journal of Archaeological Science 29 613-637. 

Apart from the Minoans and, later, the Mycenaeans, the Early Cycladic people played an important part in the development of Mediterranean metallurgy. In fact, the Cycladic islands of the central Aegean came into extraordinary prominence in the third millennium B.C. The islands were the home of a flourishing culture with prominent settlements, a rather abundant population, well-developed pottery, and striking achievements in marble sculpture. Production of silver, lead (5), and copper from their ores was developed early, along with a rather vigorous trade. 

LMIA Late Minoan IA MycIIIb Mycenaean IIIB... 

The Old World. Mycenaean civilization began with a mushroom trip -Mushrooms were an ingredient in the ambrosia of Dionysus. Porphyrius, the fourth century Latin poet and contemporary of Emperor Konstantin, knew that magic mushrooms were the children of the gods. 

Gradually the Kurgans spread southwards into the Macedonian plain and western Anatolia. They appear in Mesopotamia as Hurrians, Mitanni and Kassites In Greece, they were the Achaeans who established the Mycenaean civilization and subsequently the Dorians from the small state of Doris, who destroyed it. ... 

What is today seen as Mycenaean material culture could usefully be seen as Hyksos or at least the Hyksos of the non-Cretan Aegean. .. and it was from this society that not only the cultivation of the later Mycenaean palaces but also Greek language and culture - as they survive until today - first took shape. 

There is an opinion that the Danaioi formed a peculiar military class amongst the Mycenaean Greeks. Diodorus Siculus wrote ... 

The Anatolian Pelopid people subsequently destroyed the Mycenaean civilization and the Mycenaeans fled to the north where history records them as Dorians. Herodotus confirmed that these Dorians originally came from Egypt ... 

The Mycenaean Danaioi and the Trojans were some of the many Pelasgian speaking Sea Peoples that became itinerant at the collapse of Suppiluliuma IFs Hittite empire. The records of Ramesses III, show... 

BCE. The Trojan Confederacy blocked Mycenaean access to the... 

This peaceful society was invaded and overrun by Mycenaeans from mainland Greece around 1500 bce. As a militaristic society, the Mycenaeans built massive fortified walls around Greek cities and concentrated their efforts on manufacturing daggers, swords, helmets, and shields. To provide materials for their armaments, they extended their sphere of trade to the coast of Asia Minor, Rhodes, Syria, and the cen-... 

Only when man had learned to produce bronze, stone tools were completely replaced with bronze ones. Most likely bronze was first obtained by chance. This is evidenced by the archaeological finds on the island of Crete dating back to about 3500 B.C. which revealed not only copper but bronze articles as well. At first bronze was rather expensive and was used mainly for jewelry and luxury articles. In ancient Egypt mirrors were made from bronze. Bronze, like copper, proved to be an excellent material for relict makers and sculptors. As early as the 5th century B.C. man learned to cast bronze statues. Particular progress in bronze sculpture was made in ancient Greece beginning with the Mycenaean period. At our times copper and bronze still retain this role. 

See, in particular, Freud s discussions of the female Oedipus complex in his essay Female Sexuality (1931), in which he refers to the female pre-Oedipal phase, and to the female child s first exclusive attachment to the mother, in the following terms Our insight into this early, pre-Oedipus, phase in girls comes to us as a surprise, like the discovery, in another field, of the Minoan-Mycenaean civilisation behind the civilisation of Greece. Penguin Freud Library 7, On Sexuality (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1977), p. 372. 

Mural paintings from Macedonian tombs (third to fourth century B.c.) and from the Mycenaean Nestor palace (thirteenth century B.C.), Greece... 

Walton, M.S., Shortland, A., Kirk, S., Degryse, P. (2008) Evidence for the trade of Mesopotamian and Egyptian glass to Mycenaean Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36,1496-1503. 

A Doric tribe armed with weapons of iron invaded the Greek peninsula around 1100 BC and conquered the Mycenaean Greeks, equipped only with bronze weapons. 

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