ARTH Midterm: Late Bronze Age

Late Bronze Age number

1800-1100 BCE

Mycenae was excavated by ___

Schlieman

The Mycenae cite is different from Crete for two reasons

Definite megaron, fortified

Of the Cyclopes, mythical primitive giants; an adjective applied to the vast, irregular masonry fortifications of the Bronze Age.

Cyclopean Masonry

Items found within grave’s

Grave Goods

A system for supporting courses of masonry or wood by extending successive courses beyond the face of the wall.

Corbel Vault

A large open vessel that is used for mixing wine and water.

Krater

A mound of earth, fieldstones, fragments of rock, et., piled up over a burial or burials.

Tumulus

The central authority at a Mycenean palatial complex

Wanax

A horizontal block or beam bridging a door or other opening.

Lintel

An architectural technique used to create doorways in Mycenean walls

post and lintel

A grave for multiple burials cut as a rectangular shaft in the rock

Shaft Grave

A circular building; a built tomb (of the Bronze Age) circular in plan.

Tholos tomb

A technique for decorating metal; a black amalgam of sulphur, borax, copper, and lead inlaid in an engraved design.

Niello

A triangular space left in the masonry above the lintel of a door to relieve the lintel of some of the weight.

Relieving Triangle

An avenue or passage leading into an ancient Greek temple or tomb, especially one between rows of columns or statues.

Dromos

A vertical slab of stone (normally) used as a grave marker, and often decorated.

Stele

Grave Circle A was moved to ____ the walls of Mycenae

inside

The treasure of atreus is a ___ ___

tholos tomb

Used to make to beehive shape of the Treasury of Atreus

corbel vaulting

when was the bronze age collapse

1177

After the Late Bronze Age collapse Mycenae was ___

destroyed

After the Late Bronze Age collapse who come out the best

Egypt

possible causes of bronze age collapse

sea peoples, internal threats, earthquakes, drought