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Mycenaean economic geography is a sphere of study which is steadily drawing attention in recent years. One of its main concerns is to explore the palatial territories and the hierarchy between them through examination of archaeological data and field observation. In the light of this specific concern, it is the Argos plain that shows the most puzzling configuration of important settlements. in the Greek mainland. How can We explain the apparent coexistence of so many major Mycenaean sites or palaces in the limited space of the Argos Plain ? What kind of dynamic historical process is hidden behind the static pattern of site distribution observed here ? This is a local, but crucial problem, to which traditional studies on the Mycenaean world have never given a convincing answer, for they depend almost exclusively on the Linear B textual data. In this paper, the author attempts to shed new light on this problem using current models and theories on the spatial analysis of archaeological data. Throughout the argument, it is suggested that Mycenae had its original territory outside the plain, perhaps somewhere to the north, and Argos might have been politically subjugated by intrusive Mycenae during the Late Bronze Age. The implication is that the local historical sequence was a significant factor to determining the structure of the society, and the structure itself was not so uniform throughout the Mycenaean world as has been conventionally assumed.
