1. 370 Dark Age Greece BC

2. Depopulation
Degradation of culture
Disappearance of Mycenaean elite
“Giant Hand”

3. c. 1100 Palaces in ruin Many towns as well
No new monumental stone construction
Writing all but forgotten
Trade links broken
No quality metalwork

4. 1150-900 900-750 Sporadic incursions and movements of peoples
Slow revival

5. Sources Meager, but increase after 900 Homeric poems-c. 750 BC
Iliad
Odyssey
Hesiod-700 BC
Theogony
Works and Days

6. Archaeological
Settlements
Homes, buildings, and graves (mostly shaft)

7. Pottery Submycenaean- c. 1100-1050 BC Protogeometric-c. 1050-900 BC

8. Submycenaean

9. Protogeometric

15. Geometric

17. Dipylon vase

20. Nichoria

21. Lefkandi