Description

The Greek Dark Ages sometimes referred to as the Homeric Age or the Geometric Period spans the era of Greek history from the end of the Mycenaean civilization around 1100 BCE and the emergence of the Greek poleis in the 9th century BCE It is an era that has provided little in terms of extant archaeological evidence which in part explains the name Dark Ages but this lack of evidence has led some archaeologists and historians to make the very great assumption that little of any real significance occurred during these 200 years Instead they view it as a sort of hiatus between the collapse of the Mycenaean culture and the emergence of Archaic Greece As with other socalled Dark Ages this assessment is simplified and an absence of evidence should never be assumed as evidence of absence