CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dorian Invasion, Mycenaean Greece, Burial
4 Oct 2016
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New technology: iron tools (simpler than bronze) Indicative of a shift from a complex society to a simpler society. Practice of cremation developed (inhumation used in greece up to this point) The end of the bronze age (1200 bc) Invaders from the north, whom later greeks, in the 5th century bc, called. Came from the north, and brought with them a new dialect of greek called dorian. This dialect was spoken in several parts of greece, on crete and in the area of. This theory is old fashioned, but still held by some historians (but not by archaeologists) Mycenaean civilization collapsed under its own weight. Greece was not invaded by outsiders, but that these people called. Mycenaean power structures taken over by dorians who were already there and spoke a different dialect. The material culture of 1100-900 bc shows cultural continuity and no proof of the invasion ( no dramatic change indicating a shift in culture)
