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Notes on Minoan Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

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Most statements on the subject of Aegean chronology depend and will continue to depend on the Minoan system evolved by Sir Arthur Evans, who based his absolute dating chiefly on synchronisms with Egypt according to the chronology laid down by Dr Eduard Meyer.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1948

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1 Aegyptische Chronologie.

2 For the latest revision of L.M. I and II dates here followed see Evans’ Palace of Minos, II, p. 7.

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7 Palace of Minos I, p. 65, fig. 31.

8 Palace of Minos II, pp. 16 and 17, and fig. 6.

9 I have not considered the alternative chronology put forward by Sir Flinders Pétrie, but see CartA, Anc. Hist. 1, p. 166 ff, and the bibliography on p. 629.

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87 Rassenkinde Europas.

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89 Observed by me on the first week of November, 1941 ; I do not remember whether it has been published or not.

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99 (i) The Mycenaean Pottery, Analysis and Classification; (ii) The Chronology of Mycenaean Pottery.

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