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The Lefkandi necklace traveled across seas while the Greek world fell silent

The Lefkandi necklace traveled across seas while the Greek world fell silent

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A woman in a 10th-century BC Euboean tomb wore a centuries-old Cypriot necklace - so how did long-distance trade survive the Greek Dark Ages?

The Lefkandi necklace traveled across seas while the Greek world fell silent

In this episode, we present the discovery and puzzle of a necklace found on a dead woman at Lefkandi and what it reveals about the period conventionally labeled the Greek Dark Ages. The episode outlines the archaeological, textual, and economic clues that force a rethink of collapse, and asks which parts of Mycenaean society actually broke and which persisted.

Person: an unnamed woman buried at Lefkandi
Date: ca. 950 BC (burial); necklace dated 200-300 years older
Location: Lefkandi, island of Euboea, Greece
Topic: Mycenaean collapse / Greek Dark Ages
Event: discovery of an imported necklace in a tenth-century BC tomb

- Archaeologists excavated a burial mound at Lefkandi around 950 BC and found a necklace on the deceased woman.
- The necklace was imported from Cyprus or the Near East and was already 200-300 years old when buried.
- Mycenaean palaces ran a redistribution economy recorded in Linear B, which disappeared when that system collapsed.
- Scholars debate causes: Sea Peoples appear in records but may be symptom, not sole cause, amid wider eastern Mediterranean breakdown.
- While many sites shrank into kin-based village life, Euboea built a 50-by-10-meter structure in the tenth century BC, the largest building in Greece at that moment.

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