The East Aegean-West Anatolian Interface in the Late Bronze Age: Mycenaeans and the Kingdom of Ahhiyawa

Abstract

The Mycenaean culture of the east Aegean islands should not be considered in relation to that of the Greek Mainland, as has generally been done up until now, but rather in terms of the East Aegean — West Anatolian Interface (fig 1), an area which forms an entity between the Mycenaean islands of the central Aegean and the Anatolian hinterland with Troy at its northern extremity and Rhodes at its southern one.

The Early Iron Age at Troy Reconsidered

“…Manfred Korfmann recognized this pattern in the Early Bronze Age and he labelled it the Troia Maritime culture to highlight the close cultural links between Troy and the Aegean region (Korfmann , 22–3; Çalış‐Sazcı ). The same pattern can be seen again in the Late Bronze Age (Mountjoy , 34–45; Pavúk , 128–9; Girella and Pavúk forthcoming; Pavúk forthcoming). Penelope Mountjoy has named it the East Aegean–West Anatolian Interface, which she divides into an Upper (northern) and Lower (southern) Interface (Mountjoy , 38).…”

Multivariate Mixture of Normals With Unknown Number of Components: An Application to Cluster Neolithic Ceramics From Aegean and Asia Minor Using Portable Xrf*

“…The data set under study consisted of 188 samples, derived from eight archaeological excavation sites of Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age: Ftelia at Mykonos, Yali and Pergoussa near Nissiros (Dodecanese), Kalithies cave on the island of Rhodes, Sarakinos cave in Boeotia, central Greece, two settlements in Cyprus and Ulucak in (Furness 1956;French 1965;Hood 1981;Kamil 1982;Özdogan and Pendik 1983;Yakar 1985;Seher 1990;Eslick 1992;Mountjoy 1998;Sampson 2006). In fact this was initially considered to serve as a test rather than a provenance question, but the latter can not be excluded in the light of new finds.…”

La crisis del siglo XII A.C. pueblos del mar y guerra de Troya CA. 1215-1175 A.C

“…Se ha seña-lado una posible introducción de la cerámica del Helá-dico Final IIIC Early durante los 10 años de la guerra de Troya, en la fase Troya VIIa (Bloedow 1988: 34-35), propuesta que también sigue Vanschoonwinkel (1991Vanschoonwinkel ( : 42-43, 46 y 1998. El estudio directo de la cerámica de esta fase VIIa revela que es transición de Heládico Final IIIB-IIIC Early (Mountjoy 1999: 323), pero esta destrucción la autora la atribuye a un ataque a Troya de los Pueblos del Mar (Mountjoy 1998a(Mountjoy : 229 y 1998b. En esta fase, conocemos en algunos sectores justo al exterior de la ciudadela la presencia de amplias evidencias de incendio al final de Troya VIIa, después de un notable incremento de las dimensiones de la ciudad entre Troya VIh y VIIa, e incremento de las defensas con un zanja y empalizada para la ciudad baja al final de Troya VI, ampliada con una segunda zanja en Troya VIIa (Easton et alii 2002: 85, 91, 94).…”

“…1250 a.C. (Castleden 2005: 215) (Mountjoy 1998a: 230), caracterizada por cerámica del Heládico Final IIIC Middle y IIIC Late (Mountjoy 1998a(Mountjoy : 230 y 1999.…”

“…Por otra parte, en Troya VIIb 1 la evidencia de algunas casas, 771-784-VII theta-Square E9, indica puntuales destrucción por incendio y la cerámica se asocia a Heládico Final IIIC early y quizás del HF IIIC Middle 1 (Mountjoy 1998a(Mountjoy : 229 1998b(Mountjoy : 53 y 1999, aunque se considera que la fase acabó pacíficamente (Mountjoy 1998a(Mountjoy : 229 y 1998b.…”