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