Around the same time as the destruction of the great palaces and citadels, an odd class of pottery lacking any ancestry in the Mycenaean world.

There are not many differences in the body; the shape is pretty standard throughout the Mycenaean world.

There are many different shapes of pottery found from the Mycenaean world.

It was in the Dark Age which followed the Mycenaean world that the creative part of the pre-Homeric epic tradition began to work.

To the pottery evidence we can add other imports from the Mycenaean world.

The sign was used throughout the Mycenaean world as an apotropaic symbol: its presence on an object would prevent it from being "killed".

Also contacts with the Mycenaean world were established.

In the absence of direct sources, the general political organization of the Mycenaean world cannot be known with certainty.

Modern archaeology has also suggested early cultural links with the Mycenaean world in Greece.

In summary, the Mycenaean world disintegrated through "feuding clans of the great royal families".