The Bronze Age collapse (~1200-1150 BC) saw cremation gradually replacing inhumation as the main burial practice in Greece. The Dorian invasions theory is increasingly contested by scholars who argue for cultural continuity rather than violent replacement; Dorian arrival is now dated by some researchers to ca. 1000 BC. This transition occurred during the Bronze Age collapse, after Mycenaean palatial civilization ended. Proposed contributing factors include volcanic eruptions, climate disruption, Sea Peoples migrations, and internal societal stressors—though no single cause is definitively established. Northern European 'cremating peoples' migrating south is one theory proposed by some scholars to explain the burial practice shift.
Bronze Age collapse replaced cyclops with dragon cultures
Key facts
- Cyclopean builders practiced inumation (burial intact)
- After cyclopean buildings stopped, cremation became the main practice
- This transition occurred during the Bronze Age collapse
- The main theory attributes collapse to a volcano in Iceland around 1157 BC
- The cremating peoples ('dragons') came from northern Europe (Germany, northern France)
- The Dorian invasion replaced Mycenaean culture in Greece at the end of the Bronze Age
- This led to Greece's Dark Ages lasting about 200 years
Sources
Late Bronze Age collapseen.wikipedia.org
Invasions, destruction and population movements during the Late Bronze Age collapse ... 1237–1209 BC), the island was briefly invaded by the Hittites, either to ...
Expedition Magazine | Found: The Dorianspenn.museum
It may be that the Dorian Invasion was simply dated too early and it has been argued recently that Dorians arrived only in ca 1000 B.C. Yet a movement at this ...
The Collapse of Mycenaean Civilization and Its Causesstudocu.com
oWhy do archaeologist reject a 'Dorian invasion'? The material culture of 1100-900 shows cultural continuity, and no proof. of invasion ( ...
What Caused the Collapse of the Legendary Bronze Age?retrospectjournal.com
Invasions supposedly took place by the 'sea people': nomadic tribes who would have come to invade the cities which were mostly situated by the ...
Bronze Age Civilization Collapse - 1200 BC - Classic Historyclassichistory.net
There is no one thing that the collapse of Bronze Age civilization can be blamed on. Drought, foreign invasions, and even earthquakes all seem ...
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