2050-1550

MH I 2050-1900
MH II 1900-1700
MH III 1700-1550
BUT all this depends on Thera chronology

settlements on rocky hills
in contrast to dispersed Korakou pattern
Kolonna intermediate between MH and MC
some walls, not as impressive as at Troy VI or islands
rectangular and apsidal megara/longhouses
mudbrick on socle

Minyan, monochrome burnished
Matt-painted, paints that lack luster
coarse Cooking pottery

Minyan mostly descended from EH III Tiryns open forms
used to think Grey Minyan from northern invaders
but any invasion must have been beginning of EH III, not MH I
and "north" would only mean central Greece

Matt-painted a break from EH III, uniformity in color of paint b/c manganese-based paint, not iron-based

Cooking pottery also continuity from Tiryns EH III

imported Lustrous Decorated pottery, not made in Crete or Peloponnese that we can tell, so probably from Kythera (definitely a Minoan colony by MM IA) vel sim.
no idea what the mainlanders were trading for it
no imitations for centuries, then suddenly imitations become what we call Mycenaean

Aeginetan gold-mica-tempered vases
the first bones of equus caballus, the true horse, appear at Lerna V around the same time they're appearing at Troy VI
also domesticated fowl
no swords as yet from Mainland sites
less metal than EH II

intramural burials
extramural pit & cist graves of MH III at the earliest
tumulus, early as MH I and continue throughout the period
grave goods rare early, culminate in the Grave Circles
burials getting fancier, bodies more likely to be extended than contracted, a sign of increasing influence
most common are cist & pit burials, single inhumations

earlist shaft grave & warrior burial by far is at Kolonna on Aegina
which also has the best MBA fortifications after Troy

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