ABSTRACT
The social organization of Dorian Argos seems to support the distinction between the organized plundering incursions and the later settlement. The Dorian Argives retained, as did the Dorians elsewhere, the division of their citizens among the three Dorian tribes. The earliest documents that survive from Classical Argos, in the form of inscriptions on stone, where they record the name of the citizen, normally also record that of the tribe to which he belonged. The power and wealth of the Argolid in the Late Bronze Age is amply proved by the surviving monuments, and the riches deposited in the graves of their kings. Even the more ordinary tombs investigated by archaeologists have produced grave goods in some abundance; not, perhaps the dazzling quantities of gold that were found from the royal shaft graves, but still articles which indicate a high general level of prosperity.
