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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, maps |
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Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated at Vardounia and Mani -- Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated on the Malea Peninsula -- 2. Burial architecture -- Architectures of death -- 3. Burial customs and rites -- Before the Mycenaeans: burial practices in Middle Helladic Laconia -- Burying the dead in Mycenaean Laconia: from pre-liminal to post-liminal -- Entering the tomb -- Funerary offerings in primary burials -- Second funeral rites -- 4. Pottery -- Transitional MH III/LH I and LH I -- LH I (decorated) -- LH IIA -- LH IIB -- LH IIIA1 -- LH IIIA2 |
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H IIIA2 Unattributed fragments -- LH IIIB -- Transitional LH IIIB2/IIIC Early -- LH IIIC Early -- LH IIIC Middle -- LH IIIC Late -- Submycenaean and transitional Sybmycenaean/Early Protogeometric -- Pottery unassignable or datable by context only -- Pottery and tiles of later date (not illustrated) -- Epilogue -- Breaking the tomb's silence -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia' is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. The book will discuss and reconstruct the emergence and development of the Mycenaean mortuary tradition in Lakonia by examining the landscape of death, the burial architecture, the funerary and post-funerary customs and rituals, and offering patterns over a longue duree. 0The author proposes patterns of continuity from the Middle Bronze Age (even the Early Bronze Age in terms of burial architecture) to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, and reconstructs diachronic processes of invention of tradition and identity in Mycenaean communities, on the basis of tomb types and their material culture. The text highlights the social, political and economic history of Late Bronze Age Lakonia from the evolution of the Mycenaean civilisation and the establishment of palatial administration in the Spartan vale, to the demise of Mycenaean culture and the turbulent post-collapse centuries, as reflected by the burial offerings |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Burial -- Greece -- Peloponnesus (Peninsula) -- History -- To 1500
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Bronze age -- Greece -- Peloponnesus (Peninsula)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Bronze age
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Burial
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Greece -- Peloponnesus (Peninsula)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789252439 |
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1789252431 |
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9781789252453 |
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1789252458 |
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