event · evt_gla_destruction
Burning and Abandonment at Gla
Gla was burned and abandoned before or around the terminal palatial transformations.
What is the evidence?
observed evidence
- Burned structures
- Abandonment
proposed causes
- deliberate burning
- warfare
- internal conflict
consequences
Destruction is accepted, while perpetrator and exact date remain uncertain.
Inspect the sources →Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: reviewed for v0.1. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1230 BCE–1190 BCE
Precision: ceramic phase
moderatestratigraphy and ceramic chronology
- informs · establishes
Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age — Jesse Michael Millek (2023)
Locator: mainland Greece chapter - informs · reviews
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)
Locator: p. 261
Event context
People and places
Locations: Gla
Affected entities: Gla, Mycenaean Palatial System
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Destruction Horizon
A stratigraphic horizon showing burning, collapse, damage, or other destruction-related evidence; it does not by itself identify an attacker or cause.
Why does this record have this property?
Burning and Abandonment at Gla is represented as a destruction-related archaeological event; cause and synchronism are modeled separately.
Cause Unknown
The observed event is established more securely than its cause.
Why does this record have this property?
The event is better established than a single definitive cause or attacker identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · establishes
Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age — Jesse Michael Millek (2023)Source relationship recorded for Burning and Abandonment at Gla.
Locator: mainland Greece chapter - informs · reviews
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)Source relationship recorded for Burning and Abandonment at Gla.
Locator: p. 261
Referenced records
- Mycenaean Palatial System · entity
- Gla · entity