Prior to 1960, Minyan Ware was often associated with northern invaders having destroyed Early Helladic culture ( 1900 BC ) and introducing Middle Helladic culture into the Greek peninsula.
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The exception, however, entails the spread of Minyan Ware from central Greece to northeastern Peloponnese, which can be seen as " coming from the north " with respect to the Peloponnese.
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During the Middle Helladic II period, stamped concentric circles and " festoons " ( or parallel semicircles ) became a common characteristic of decoration especially on Black ( or Argive ) Minyan Ware.
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However, John L . Caskey conducted excavations in Greece ( i . e . Lerna ) and definitively stated that Minyan Ware was in fact the direct descendant of the fine gray burnished pottery of Early Helladic III Tiryns culture.
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These innovations would undergo further changes during the Middle Helladic period ( 2000 / 1900 1650 BC ), marked by the spread of Minyan ware, and the Late Helladic period ( 1650 1050 BC ), which was the time when Mycenaean Greece flourished.
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The MH period is characterized by the wide-scale emergence of Minyan ware, which may be directly related to the people whom ancient Greek historians called Minyans; a group of monochrome burnished pottery from Middle Helladic sites was conventionally dubbed " Minyan " ware by Troy's discoverer Heinrich Schliemann.
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Painted linear decoration in dark glaze on the pale body is characteristic of Lerna IV . Caskey identified early examples of the ware that in Middle Helladic contexts would be recognized as Minyan ware, and, among the few examples of imported pottery, a winged jar characteristic of Troy, perhaps Troy IV.
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Yet, the angular forms of this particular pottery style may in fact be derived from the common use of the fast potter's wheel . " Ring stems " ( or highly ribbed pedestal feet ) are an important characteristic of Middle Helladic II and Middle Helladic III Gray Minyan Ware in central Greece.
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Lerna V is continuous with the preceding phase, distinguished largely by new styles in pottery with the sudden, peaceful introduction of matte-painted ware, the thick-slipped Argive version of gray Minyan ware, and a vigorous increase in the kinds of imported wares, coming from the Cyclades and Crete ( Middle Minoan IA ).
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In 1915, he published his first academic paper, " On the Date and Origin of Minyan Ware ", which appeared in the " Journal of Hellenic Studies ", and the following year produced his B . Litt . thesis, " The Influence of Indo-Europeans in Prehistoric Greece ", displaying his interest in combining philological and archaeological evidence.
