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AUTHOR(S): Konstantinos Sp. Giannakos
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TITLE Finds of Mycenaean Technology in the Citadel of Troy and in Levantine Palaces and the Fall of Troy |
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ABSTRACT Cutting-Edge Technology had appeared in Greece around the 6th-5th millennium B.C. and continued to develop uninterruptedly until the Mycenaean era. Archaeological finds document the transfer of Greek Technology, during the 2nd millennium BC, from the Mycenaean Palace centers to the courts of the rulers in Troy, the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt and the Land-of-Ḫatti, and its adoption even in the inner (sacred) Halls of Palaces. Mycenaean influence is apparently connected to the era of great power and economic prosperity of the Palace centers in Greece, before 1350/1320(+)1 B.C., and not with the era of economic decline and gradual collapse of the Palaces that followed. We infer that this corresponds to the era before-and-after the Fall of Troy. |
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KEYWORDS Troy, Fall, Mycenaean, Technology, Levant, Cyprus, Egypt, Land-of-Ḫatti, Neolithic, Smelting |
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Cite this paper Konstantinos Sp. Giannakos. (2024) Finds of Mycenaean Technology in the Citadel of Troy and in Levantine Palaces and the Fall of Troy. International Journal of Cultural Heritage, 9, 14-48 |
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