Weapons in the Shaft Graves of Mycenae: Aspects of the Relative Chronology of Circle A and B Burials

In recent times fast progress was made in excavations throughout the Aegean and, what has bearing on our subject, in studies on the so-called “Shaft Grave period" in particularl. Nevertheless, a spectacular concentration of Wealth in the Mycenae Grave Circles still remains a unique phenomenon in the whole Aegean area. The discussion about their cultural and historical implications and the chronological interconnections among graves has been animated ever since by both new finds from other sites and the analyses of the degree of Wealth within burials from Mycenae itself.