Xρονολογία Comparata

The comparative chronology set out in this book correlates the relative chronological phases of the Aegean and Italy for the time period between c. 1700/1600 and 1000 BCE. The time frame is determined by the available contact finds; it covers the whole Aegean Late Bronze Age from LH I/LM IA to Submycenaean/Subminoan, on the one hand, and the Italian phases from MBA 1 to FBA 2, on the other. For the establishment of the comparative chronological system various artefact categories are analysed, which originated in one of the two regions examined, yet which were also exported to the other region or locally produced there by closely following the original types. These are Mycenaean pottery found in Italy and Handmade Burnished Ware (HMB), bronze weapons, implements and dress accessories, and in some cases wheelmade grey ware found in Greece. Only closed find contexts and well documented stratigraphic sequences are used for comparison. In this way a secure and continuous connection between Aegean and Italian chronological phases is achieved by means of cross-dating.