1. small towns with blocks of living units defined by cobbled streets
2. settlements with a central main building and surrounding smaller buildings
3. towns with a central palace surrounded by large buildings
4. towns/villages consisting of large, separated houses
5. isolated rural villas
All palatial centers except Knossos destroyed in LM IB
Neopalatial and Post-palatial tombs
rare pit & cave burials
chamber tombs single most common, burials laid on floor or placed in pithoi or larnakes
sometimes cists and shafts cut into the tomb floor
tomb chamber closed off & dromos filled with earth
shaft graves relatively rare, mostly found in the Knossos area
shaft-niche graves, only in the Knossos area, shafts with a niche cut into one of the longer walls
tholos tombs (built with a vaulted roof)
Tholos A at Archanes of LM IIIA date may have been the archetype for the Treasury of Atreus and the tomb of Minyas at Orchomenos (LM IIIB)
4 types of burial containers
wooden coffins
elliptical larnakes modeled after bathtubs
rectangular larnakes
pithoi, v. popular in MM but largely replaced by Larnakes in LM
2. settlements with a central main building and surrounding smaller buildings
3. towns with a central palace surrounded by large buildings
4. towns/villages consisting of large, separated houses
5. isolated rural villas
All palatial centers except Knossos destroyed in LM IB
Neopalatial and Post-palatial tombs
rare pit & cave burials
chamber tombs single most common, burials laid on floor or placed in pithoi or larnakes
sometimes cists and shafts cut into the tomb floor
tomb chamber closed off & dromos filled with earth
shaft graves relatively rare, mostly found in the Knossos area
shaft-niche graves, only in the Knossos area, shafts with a niche cut into one of the longer walls
tholos tombs (built with a vaulted roof)
Tholos A at Archanes of LM IIIA date may have been the archetype for the Treasury of Atreus and the tomb of Minyas at Orchomenos (LM IIIB)
4 types of burial containers
wooden coffins
elliptical larnakes modeled after bathtubs
rectangular larnakes
pithoi, v. popular in MM but largely replaced by Larnakes in LM