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Death in Late Bronze Age Greece presents an exploration of the richness and variety of mortuary rituals in Late Bronze Age Greece. It explores how tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese provide us with a unique lens through which to examine diversity in communities that have previously been interpreted through a monolithic narrative.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction and Discussion of Late Bronze Age Mortuary Practices
- Joanne M. A. Murphy
- 2. Late Bronze Age Tombs at the Palace of Nestor, Pylos
- Joanne M. A. Murphy, Sharon R. Stocker, Jack L. Davis, and Lynne A. Schepartz
- 3. 'You Can't Take It With You.' The Socio-political Context of Changing Burial Traditions During the Mycenaean Palatial Period at Mycenae and Prosymna
- Kim Shelton
- 4. The Mycenaean Cemetery of Deiras in a Local and Regional Context
- Nikolas Papadimitriou, Anna Philippa-Touchais, and Gilles Touchais
- 5. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira, Nemea R.
- Angus K. Smith, Mary K. Dabney, and James C. Wright
- 6. The Mycenaean Cemetery at Clauss, near Patras. The Rise and Fall of a Local Society towards the End of an Era
- Constantinos Paschalidis
- 7. Death in Early Mycenaean Achaea
- Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki
- 8. The Chamber Tombs of the Trapeza, Aigion: Preliminary Observations on Rituals of a Small Mycenaean Community
- Elizabetta Borgna and Gaspare De Angeli
- 9. Claiming Social Identities in the Mortuary Landscape of the Late Bronze Age Communities of Northern Greece
- Sevi Triantaphylou and Stelios Andreou
- 10. Landscape, Feasting, and Ancestors in the Burial Tradition of Mycenaean Rhodes
- Mercourios Georgiadis
- 11. Langada Revisited: Construction Practices, Space, and Socio-Cultural Identity in the Koan Burial Arena During the Mycenaean Palatial and Postpalatial Periods
- Calla Mc Namee and Salvatore Vitale
- 12. Middle Minoan III Late Minoan IIIB Tombs and Funerary Practices in South- Central Crete
- Luca Girella
- 13. The Power of the Dead: The Late Minoan III Cemeteries of Mochlos and Myrsini
- R. Angus Smith
- 14. Funerary Practices, Female Identities, and the Clay Pyxis in Late Minoan III Crete
- Anna Lucia D'Agata
About the author
Dr Murphy holds degrees from the University of Cincinnati (Ph.D.), and University College Dublin, and studies Greek archaeology, archaeological methods and theory, the archaeology of religion, and the archaeology of mortuary systems. She is Director of the Kea Archaeological Research Survey that examines the value of pedestrian survey as an archaeological method.
Summary
Death in Late Bronze Age Greece presents an exploration of the richness and variety of mortuary rituals in Late Bronze Age Greece. It explores how tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in the Dodecanese provide us with a unique lens through which to examine diversity in communities that have previously been interpreted through a monolithic narrative.
Additional text
Tombs are among the most meaningful archaeological evidence that help to reconstruct past societies. Discussions on, and presentations of, the most recent methodological advances, i.e. theory and fieldwork techniques, in funerary archaeology constitute a very important part of archaeological bibliography internationally. The edited volume, Death in Late Bronze Age Greece, belongs to this corpus of contributions with a particular focus on the Late Bronze Age period in Greece...The book contains papers dealing with various areas of the Aegean, types of tombs, funerary practices, a wide range of methodological issues, and a variety of approaches towards funerary archaeology.
