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Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces
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Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces, pp. 209-230, 2022/12/15
Over the past quarter-century, the published evidence for variability in the nature and extent of ceramic regionalism within LM II–IIIB Crete (c 1450–1180 BC) has increased dramatically Assessing the implications of that evidence, however, has been hampered by the continuing failure of pottery specialists to agree upon criteria for defining ceramic phases that apply throughout the island, as well as by the lack of established metrics whereby varying degrees of ceramic uniformity or regionalism can be determined By reviewing some results of a recent determined effort on the part of specialists to explore incremental ceramic change as well as regionalism during the 13th century in particular, the suggestion is made that the appearance of dark-surfaced Handmade and Burnished Ware (HMBW), agreed to be of south Italian ancestry, and its imitation in local pale-firing fine fabrics on Crete as well as on the southern and central Greek mainland can be used to correlate the ceramically based relative chronologies of these two Aegean regions The short-lived LH IIIB2 Final through earliest IIIC destruction horizon of mainland palatial centers occurred during the phase termed LM IIIB2 (or LM IIIB Late) on Crete Thus, mainland refugees from those destructions can be expected to be recognizable on Crete before LM IIIC begins Indeed, their arrival may have played a significant role in the dramatic changes in settlement pattern that are observable throughout much of Crete during the later LM IIIB period.
Keywords: ceramic regionalism, Chania, Dimini, Handmade Burnished Ware, Late Minoan III