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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
The articles and guides here connect case studies with methods: layers and dating, critical reading, pottery, coins, inscriptions and raw materials. Choose a question, then follow the sources and related reading. Checking an abstract is never presented as reviewing an entire paper.
The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports dates the earliest settlement at Dimini to the end of the fifth millennium BC; the Met's timeline puts "the earliest evidence of fortifications in Greece" there at ca. 3400 B.C. Two dates and two readings of the same six stone enclosures.
In the unlooted southern deposit on Keros lay fragments of some 500 marble figurines and 2,500 marble vessels, broken elsewhere and deposited over five centuries, 2800-2300 BC. What the Cambridge report says, and how far its reading of a ritual goes.
The Met's timeline dates the great palaces of Knossos and Phaistos to ca. 2000 B.C., with central courts and no fortification walls; the Dartmouth chronology starts the first palaces ca. 1925/1900 B.C. What a "palace without walls" means in these sources.
UNESCO calls Mycenae the richest palatial centre of the Late Bronze Age in Greece and dates the walls of Tiryns, up to 8 m thick and 13 m high, to the end of the 13th century BC. What such walls show, and what the page leaves unsaid about why they were built.
The Met's timeline dates the eruption of the volcano on Thera to ca. 1500-1450 B.C. and links it, by date only, to the rise of Mycenae; the Dartmouth chronology reports a debate over its absolute date running since 1987. What changed after the eruption, by these sources.
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