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If you would like to learn more about Mycenaean Athens, the Bronze Age Collapse, and the ensuing dark age, here are just a few suggestions to get you started:
Books:
Nezameddin Faghih and Ali Hussein Samadi, eds., Institutional Inertia: Theory and Evidence, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024.
Robin Osborne, The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, Vol. II: Athens and Attica, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Ian Rutherford, Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction, and Comparison, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Guy D. Middleton, ed., Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age in the Aegean, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020. (A variety of different interpretations of the latest evidence.)
Eirini M. Dimitriadou, Early Athens: Settlements and Cemeteries in the Submycenaean, Geometric, and Archaic Periods, Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2019.
Alexandros Mazarakis Ainian, Alexandria Alexandridou, and Xenia Charalambidou, eds., Regional Stories towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World, Volos: University of Thessaly Press, 2017.
Esther Eidenow and Julia Kindt, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Eric H. Cline, 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Barbara A. Olsen, Women in Mycenaean Greece: The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos, New York: Routledge, 2014.
Jonathan M. Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE, Malden: Blackwell, 2007.
Jeremy McInerney, The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Ilias Arnaoutoglou, Ancient Greek Laws: A Sourcebook, London, Routledge, 1998.
Susan Langdon, New Light on a Dark Age: Exploring the Culture of Geometric Greece, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
Paul Rehak, ed., The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean: Proceedings of a Panel Discussion Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America with Additions, Liège: Université de Liège, 1995.
Chester G. Starr, The Birth of Athenian Democracy: The Assembly in the Fifth Century B.C., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Articles:
Graham Braun, “Women in Mycenaean Greece: The Linear B Textual Evidence,” The Ascendant Historian, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2020): 6-19.
Aynur-Michèle-Sara Karatas, “Key-Bearers of Greek Temples: The Temple Key as a Symbol of Priestly Authority,” Mythos: Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, Vol. 13 (2019): 1-48.
Cécile Boëlle-Weber, “I-Je-Re-Ja, Ka-Ra-Wi-Po-Ro, and Others: Women in Mycenaean Religion,” in Stephanie Lynn Budin and Jean MacIntosh Turfa, eds., Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World, New York: Routledge, 2016.
Brandon L. Drake, “The Influence of Climatic Change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages,” Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 39, No. 6 (June 2012): 1862-1870.
Martin Finné, Karin Holmgren, Chuan-Chou Shen, Hsun-Ming Hu, Meighan Boyd, and Sharon Stocker, “Late Bronze Age Climate Change and the Destruction of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos,” PLoS One, Vol. 12, No. 12 (December 2017): 1-18.
P. Petrakis, “Writing the Wanax: Spelling Peculiarities of Linear B wa-na-ka and Their Possible Implications,” Minos: Revista de Filología Egea, Vol. 39 (2016): 61-158.
Florian Ruppenstein, “The End of the Bronze Age in Attica and the Origin of the Polis of Athens,” in Nikolas Papadimitriou et al., eds., Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27-31 May 2015, Archaeopress, 2015.
Manuel Regueiro y González-Barros, Michael Stamatakis, and Konstantinos Laskaridis, “The Geology of the Acropolis (Athens, Greece),” European Geologist, No. 38 (November 2014): 45-52.
Jonathan M. Hall, “The Rise of State Action in the Archaic Age,” in Hans Beck, ed., A Companion to Ancient Greek Government, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Barbara Tsakirgis, “Fire and Smoke: Hearths, Braziers, and Chimneys in the Greek House,” British School at Athens Studies, Vol. 15 (2007): 225-231.
Christina Aamodt, “Priests and Priestesses in Mycenaean Greece,” Ph.D. diss., U. Nottingham, 2006.
Stavroula Nikoloudis, “The ra-wa-ke-ta, Ministerial Authority, and Mycenaean Cultural Identity,” Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 2005.
Kevin T. Glowacki, “The Acropolis of Athens Before 566 B.C.,” in Kim J. Hartswick and Mary C. Sturgeon, eds., ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1998.
Feel free to offer more suggestions in the comments!