ABSTRACT
The fragmentation of the Mycenaean culture is, or may be, attested in three ways: 1 by the disappearance of some well-established classes of Mycenaean artefacts; 2 by the disintegration of the homogeneous Mycenaean style into a number of local types; 3 by the introduction of new customs. When the evidence from the major sites is presented in this stark and, admittedly, over-simplified form, it is seen to afford very slight support for the statement, almost universally expressed in works on the Aegean Bronze Age, that the Mycenaean world as such came to a violent end with the close of the Late Helladic IIIb ceramic period. The Late Helladic IIIc cemeteries in Greece are plausibly connected by Desborough with a movement of population consequent upon the great destructions: a movement which led to the establishment of an area of reasonably unified Mycenaean culture embracing the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and eastern Attica.
