Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. Mediterranean (Early Western World)
7. Aegean
8. Aegean periods
9. Aegean Bronze Age periods
10. Helladic
11. Middle Helladic

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the Middle Helladic period and culture associated with the graves that date from around 1600 BCE to around 1400 BCE and were found at Mycenae and other Bronze Age Greek sites. It is characterized by tomb construction that is distinct from earlier and other contemporary cultures in that the tombs were typically arranged in circles and probably were surmounted by tumuli, burials were multiple and successive burials rather than individual, and portable gold and weapons were preferred as grave goods, reminiscent of a nomadic culture.