entity · pol_mycenaean_palatial
Mycenaean Palatial System
A political and administrative system represented in the evidence graph.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1450 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: not specified
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Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Late Bronze Age
A broad archaeological and historical period whose local boundaries vary, here used primarily for the later second millennium BCE.
Why does this record have this property?
The Mycenaean palatial system flourished in the Late Bronze Age.
Mycenaean World
The palatial and post-palatial communities of Late Bronze Age mainland Greece and connected Aegean regions conventionally described as Mycenaean.
Why does this record have this property?
The palatial centres and their territories formed the political-administrative core of the Mycenaean world.
- Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces
supports assignment - Social Change across the End of the Aegean Bronze Age
supports assignment
Administrative Collapse
Loss of a central administrative system, archive, bureaucracy, or redistributive apparatus without implying population disappearance.
Why does this record have this property?
Palatial administration and Linear B bureaucratic systems ceased at different centres during the late thirteenth and twelfth centuries BCE.
- Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC
supports assignment - Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces
supports assignment - The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC
supports assignment
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports entity record
Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces (2022)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Mycenaean Palatial System.
- supports · supports entity record
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC — Oliver Dickinson (2006)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Mycenaean Palatial System.
- supports · supports entity record
Social Change across the End of the Aegean Bronze Age — Antonis Kotsonas (2025)Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Mycenaean Palatial System.
Referenced records
- Aegean · entity