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New study finds: Ancient Mycenaean civilization might have collapsed due to uprising or invasion
TornosNews.gr ^ | April 10, 2018 | unattributed

Posted on 04/15/2018 3:55:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

For many years, the prevailing theory on how the Mycenaean civilisation collapsed was that devastating earthquakes led to the destruction of its palaces in the Peloponnese, southern Greece around 1,200 BC. Nevertheless, new evidence suggests that some type of internal uprising or an external invasion might have brought about the downfall of the Mycenaean civilisation. From 2012, a team led by German archaeologist Joseph Maran of Heidelberg University and geophysicist Klaus-G. Hinzen has been conducting research in Tiryns and Midea. The findings of their research were published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. "Although some of the observations from the two investigated citadels could be explained by seismic loading, alternative nonseismic causes could equally explain most observed damage. In some cases, the structural damage was clearly not caused by earthquakes", they stressed in the study, adding that: "Our results indicate that the hypothesis of a destructive earthquake in Tiryns and Midea, which may have contributed to the end of the LBA Mycenaean palatial period, is unlikely".

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: anatolia; catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; godsgravesglyphs; greece; luwian; luwians; midea; mycenaean; mycenaeans; quake; quakes; scythians; tiryns; trojanwar
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The prevailing theory until now has been that Mycenaean palaces had been destroyed by devastating earthquakes

The prevailing theory until now has been that Mycenaean palaces had been destroyed by devastating earthquakes

1 posted on 04/15/2018 3:55:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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I bought this book in May 2004. Zangger discusses the long history (circa 1885, much earlier than I'd thought) of the "Thera was Atlantis" idea, and beginning on page 44 cuts it to ribbons. It should be noted that Zangger has his own book about what was and wasn't Atlantis. ;') Check out pp 48-49 for a summary of the problems with the idea, and an amusing catalog of other things attributed to the eruption.
"Even when, during the respective Thera Conferences, individual scientists had pointed out that the magnitude and significance of the Thera eruption must be estimated as less than previously thought, the conferences acted to strengthen the original hypothesis. The individual experts believed that the arguments advanced by their colleagues were sound, and that the facts of a natural catastrophe were not in doubt... All three factors reflect a fantasy world rather than cool detachment, which is why it so difficult to refute the theory with rational arguments." -- Eberhard Zangger, "The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century", pp 49-50.
The Future of the Past
The Future of the Past
Archaeology in the 21st Century

by Eberhard Zangger

2 posted on 04/15/2018 3:56:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
In "In Search of the Trojan War", documentarian Michael Wood noted that where archaeologists want damage to be caused by earthquakes, that's what they claim, despite there being no way to tell from that particular pile of rocks. OTOH, for a long while the onset of the so-called Greek Dark Age (and corresponding "dark ages" elsewhere in the Mediterranean basin) was attributed to widespread earthquakes. One of *those* topics.



3 posted on 04/15/2018 4:00:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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4 posted on 04/15/2018 4:00:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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this could make a separate topic:

Archaeologists Find 6th Century BC Home, Red-Figure Pottery Krater Depicting Oedipus and the Sphinx from Apollonia Pontica in Bulgaria’s Sozopol
April 10, 2018
by Ivan Dikov (ouch!)

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/04/10/archaeologists-find-6th-century-bc-home-red-figure-pottery-krater-depicting-oedipus-and-the-sphinx-from-apollonia-pontica-in-bulgarias-sozopol/

https://i0.wp.com/archaeologyinbulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sozopol-Ancient-Greek-Home-Krater-4.jpg


5 posted on 04/15/2018 4:03:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

I have always been intrigued by Mycenae and Crete. They were active during and before the Trojan war.

Part of their decline may have been because of invasion by Doric Greeks (Spartans) and other similar people.


6 posted on 04/15/2018 4:06:21 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: SunkenCiv

Lawrence Keeley notes the same thing about archaeologists and pre-history ruins. There was a concerted effort to find explanations that did not involve obvious conflict and war.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/book-review-war-before-civilization.html


7 posted on 04/15/2018 4:11:29 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

It won’t happen in my lifetime, I hope that someday historians will step back and look at what we really KNOW and just try to tell that story. But for over a century (at least), most historians have been telling whatever story they wanted to tell (usually to advance an ideology) and they have simply twisted evidence to help themselves along.

At some point, there will be a renaissance in the field that might get us closer to useful truth. This is also true in Psychology, which could be a good field, but which is largely today just political posturing.


8 posted on 04/15/2018 4:28:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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The Mycenaeans keyword, sorted newest to oldest, and unedited (lots of Minoan topics in this list):

9 posted on 04/15/2018 4:33:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: yarddog

One canned response has been that they collapsed due to “overspecialization”, a brainless concept if ever there was one.


10 posted on 04/15/2018 4:36:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: marktwain

Yup.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3646125/posts


11 posted on 04/15/2018 4:37:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I hope that someday historians will step back and look at what we really KNOW and just try to tell that story. But for over a century (at least), most historians have been telling whatever story they wanted to tell (usually to advance an ideology) and they have simply twisted evidence to help themselves along.

It's always seemed to me (an engineer, not an academic) that what we really KNOW about ancient times is mighty little. We know something about those civilizations that captured their history and thoughts in stone, but precious little, and often what the civilization in question wanted people to know. We have a little bit of ancient literature, not much and much of it in fragments or statements by later writers. I have often posed this question to students in Sunday School when discussing the Bible - In a thousand years, when some archaeologist digs up the ruins of your house, what will be left? Not a heck of a lot, I suspect. Could they determine much about us from this? Suspect not.

12 posted on 04/15/2018 7:19:25 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: SunkenCiv

Might?! Is this sh*t passing for science these days?

I call BS.

The Mycenaean civilization largely ended due to the super volcano explosion of Thera/Santorini.


13 posted on 04/15/2018 11:48:08 PM PDT by cranked
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought it was a volcano did them in?.....................


14 posted on 04/16/2018 8:12:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: yarddog

Didn’t the Cretans evacuate and move and become the Philistines of the “Old Testament’?...........


15 posted on 04/16/2018 8:14:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Red Badger

I have seen that before but have no idea if it is true.

I think they were called “the sea people”?


16 posted on 04/16/2018 8:15:38 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: SunkenCiv

Cline has out 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed which has concepts in line with this post. I am on the last chapter now.

The “Sea Peoples” seem to have impacted all Mediterranean civilizations, not just Egypt.


17 posted on 04/16/2018 8:26:52 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: yarddog

Yes, the ancient Egyptians and others referred to them that way.....


18 posted on 04/16/2018 8:30:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Santorini Eruption Much larger Than Originally Believed
19 posted on 04/16/2018 10:12:05 AM PDT by blam
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To: ClearCase_guy

“But for over a century (at least), most historians have been telling whatever story they wanted to tell (usually to advance an ideology) and they have simply twisted evidence to help themselves along.”

Leftists have been doing the same thing. Is this something else?


20 posted on 04/16/2018 12:38:53 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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