2/ Evans believed that he had discovered a Minoan palatial sanctuary with the two figurines, being made of faience, the larger of which represented a "Snake Goddess" and the smaller a priestess (he called her "Snake Priestess"), considering them to be votive objects. 
1/ Around 6200 BC the first signs of Neolithicization appear in the Caucasus, marking a new era for local human presence. Thus, domesticated animals and plants appear and technological innovations, such as pottery, are introduced. All of these elements have a foreign character. 
1/ In 1976, a local Soviet archaeologist carried out excavations in the Satsurblia cave (western Georgia), bringing to light various layers of human habitation, the oldest of which date back to the Upper Palaeolithic (27 kya). The cave was a seasonal camp for mobile groups of 👉 
2️⃣ The earliest Helladic samples of steppe origin indicate this early descent (Theopetra - 2312 BC), in combination with the characteristics of the Proto-Greek language (centum). The Neolithic peoples are directly descended from the Yamnaya culture and passed into northern 👉 
2/ The sarcophagus was made of limestone and there are holes in its bottom. Its construction cannot be considered as something extraordinary and its shape is very irregular. However, its importance lies in the fact that it is decorated on all four sides 👉 
👉song in praise of self-possessed Penelope. Not on this wise did the daughter of Tyndareus devise evil deeds and slay her wedded husband, and hateful shall the song regarding her be among men,and evil repute doth she bring upon all womankind, even upon her that doeth uprightly." 
2/ Thus the Pelasgians are presented as the most important of a series of Pre-Greek or non-Greek tribes who lived in the distant past or even at the time when the various ancient accounts about them were written. Most often Pelasgians are used to describe all of these tribes. 
2️⃣ The tablet MY V 659 was found in the palace of Mycenae and records either the distribution of beds or bedclothes (δέμνια) by the palace to mainly female persons (workers?), or for deliveries of bedclothes by female workers to the palace. The given names are recorded in pairs. 
2/ However, we must be careful in every interpretive scenario and give due importance to a series of elements that come from the cultural environment in which the disc was created. Thus, the evidence arising from the archaeological context in which the disc was found 👉 
2/ Genetic studies have shown that the steppe ancestry of the Mycenaeans was amounting to 0-30%, while the remaining genome includes ancestry originating mainly from the early Anatolian Neolithic Farmers who brought the Neolithic package to the Aegean, as well as a small 👉 
2️⃣ The horse in particular, which had a special importance to the Mycenaeans, was brought to Greece after 2500 BC by the PIE groups, bearers of the ancestor of the Greek language. Studies have shown that the type of horse known at that time was a small-bodied type of horse. 
2/ The world that emerged had completely different characteristics from the past, but in some regions of Greece the new reality was considerably more complex. In the western Peloponnese (Olympia and Andravida) and sporadically in several sites in southern and central Greece 👉 
2/ Grave Circle B was excavated by Greek archaeologists in the early 1950s on a small raised earthen mound a few meters outside the Acropolis of Mycenae. Inside an enclosure ca 28 meters in diameter that resembled the corresponding one of the later Grave Circle A, 👉 
2/ Thus, the mycenaeologists concluded that this was a production system organized directly by the central administration, in which the palace distributed a weighed quantity of raw materials (wool and bronze) to regional workshops that processed it and then produced 👉 
(2) During the classical era, Gate Sanctuaries were built in honor of a deity, who was associated with the protection that provided to a particular area, while in Crete, Eileithyia Prothyraea was known, a quintessentially Cretan deity, who was associated with the cult of Artemis. 
2/ A controversial issue is the origin and development of Mycenaean religion mainly due to the lack of evidence of religious practices during the early Mycenaean period. However, the archaeological dig has brought to light ritual environments 👉 
2/A first observation from the textual evidence is that the Pylian state, although it seems that it monitored the economic activity in the entire territory, controlled only a limited part of it,which testifies to an efficient bureaucracy and concurrently a weak central authority. 
2/ The structural features of Linear A' texts demonstrate local variations, concealing the existence of dialectal or linguistic differentiations between Cretan regions, raising the question of whether the so-called Minoan language represented one or more languages or dialects. 
2/Wanting to outline the libation formula, we could say that it is a kind of text, which in its complete form has 8 words and always the word (J)A-SA-SA-RA-ME, while it is recorded only on objects, such as stone offering tables, cups,altars, ladles etc,but never on clay tablets. 
2️⃣ Although there are some objections as to whether the Archanes script is indeed a writing, the majority of scholars consider it to be a precursor phase of the later Cretan scripts. Several elements of evidence support the fact that the Cretan hieroglyphs gave rise 👉 
2/ Nevertheless, the big difference with Ugarit was that it had a crucial role in the political and diplomatic developments of the Near East as a close ally of the Hittites, while on the contrary Troy seems to have been an important city for the Hittites that merited 👉 
