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Around 1200 BCE the Athenian palace and other sites in Attica suffered a steep population decline, though they seem to have escaped the violent destruction of other major Bronze Age sites, ushering in the period known as the Dark Age (Camp 2001, 12–20; Hurwit 1999, 67–84). Like most other places after the Bronze Age collapse, Athens decreased drastically in population and wealth. There was a slow but steady recovery from the tenth to the eighth centuries, followed by a sharp increase in the seventh century, a period which also saw increasing contact with the Near East (Miller 1997, 63–88, 243–57; Wiesehöfer 2009; Camp 2001, 20–22).