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There's just no way to explain that except to say
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that catalog of ships goes back to the Mycenaean Period.
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Now, the differences between what we find in the Homeric poems
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are also very illuminating,
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differences between that and what we know happened
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after the fall of the Mycenaean world. For instance,
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one of the most striking things that you find in cultures,
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anthropologists and archaeologists live off this,
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is what they do with dead bodies.
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Now, in Mycenae, it's obvious; they bury them in the ground
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as most of us do. The graves in the circle,
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the shaft graves, and then the beehive tombs for the big shots,