Mycenaean Warriors

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Well I am probably outdated in my bibliography, as I still think Homer is not describing the Mycenaean period at all, would you like to post some of your bibliograpgy relevant to those points, especially those concerning cremation? and I mean here not only the existence of cremation, but the general use, as described in the Illiad.
For me, the more important point however is that of the political institutions, those described in linear B show a complex burocracy with a lot of titles of which there is not a single mention in Homer, he instead describes a much more simple and rudimentary political enviroment.

For what concern the most exaustive analysis about the Iliaid, Troy, and Mycenaean world in general and the relevant evidencies that the poem it was compouse in the Mycenaean time a must to have is this book by Joachim Latacz Professor at the University of Basel actually considered one of the world top expert about the argument.
TROY and HOMER by Joachim Latacz Oxford University press 2004.
Evidences of late Mycenaean Cremation burials are in one case from a specific Archaeological report which I don't have now available and in any case has not been published as a book.
Reference of late mycenaean cremation burial (just in the area in front of Troy where the so called Achilleus tumulus is located) are mentioned in some books one of these is:
TROIA wie es wirklich aussah by Birgit Brandau
This book in Germany it is basically the report of the Prioject Troy the excavation program started on 1990 untill today of Manfred Korfmann (recentelly died) and his German/American Team.
Furtermore recentelly in Greece near Patras I have (together Dr. D'amato) personally witness an new huge excavation site with several Mycenaean to proto geometric Tholos tomb and burials.
Some cremation burial dated late Mycenaeans period have been found.
Of course those excavations are still on going so no report have been published and no further informations can be given.
For what concer the late Mycenaean general use a very exaustive book is.
LA TRANSIZIONE DAL MICENEO ALL'ALTO ARCAISMO (The transition from the mycenaean to the early archaism) by Institute for mycenaean- anatolic study in Rome
unfortunatelly this book is in Italian available only in archaeological edicated library.
For what I can remember various informations about this argument are also contained in other more gerical books but actually I can't find the reference (I have too many documentations to check)
As I told before the major problem in this research is that the most usefull informatons (somethimes never published for the general audience) are contained in specific dedicated books or archaeological report in most of the cases only available in the Arcaeologiacal biblioteque in Rome, Athens, Berlin etc..(only available for consult by acreditated arcaheologist people) .
Andrea