Conclusions

The analysis of the PG material culture has shown that our knowledge of the period in the Aegean has increased enormously since Snodgrass’s and Desborough’s surveys. These new discoveries clearly illustrate that the period was more complex than was thought before. In this chapter aspects of life and death of the people of the Aegean who lived during this period are explored and reconstructed using the archaeological material which has been collected and analysed in the previous chapters. Chronologically the PG period covers the end of the eleventh and the whole of the tenth century BC. During this period five generations of people lived and died in relatively peaceful conditions, especially when compared to the troubled years of the Late Helladic IIIC and SM periods. Although the events concerning the end of the Mycenaean palace system fall outside the scope of the present study, it is clear that they would have had an important effect on the development of the following periods. Two accounts of them, illustrating the changes which took place after the end of the palatial system, are particularly important for the present discussion.

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Eleventh · Geography · Period (music) · Scope (computer science) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History