Oil, and Cosmetic Practices (Bronze Age)

Evidence for olive oil in the Bronze Age:

Tablets from the Mycenaean period, written in a proto-Greek script called Linear B, were found at Mycenae and Tiryns, Thebes, Pylos, Knossos, and Khania. These tablets were essentially record books used to keep track of the contents of the Mycenaean palace centers. They indicate that during the Bronze Age olive oil was perfumed and perhaps used in a religious context (1).

Author: Jeff Gingras

(1) Chadwick, John.   The Mycenaean World . (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1976): 101.