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Lesson 16.6: Burial Customs

Lesson 16 Bibliography: The Shaft Graves

R. S. Fox, “Vessels and the Body in Early Mycenaean Funerary Contexts,” in H. Cavanagh, W. Cavanagh, and J. Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese (Nottingham 2011) 71-82.

S. Hewitt, A Study of Mycenaean and Minoan Warrior Burials in the Aegean from the Period of the Shaft Graves to the Fall of the Palace at Knossos (PhD dissertation, Queen’s University [Kingston, Ontario] 1993).

M. Lindblom and G. Ekroth, “Heroes, Ancestors or Just Any Old Bones? Contextualizing the Consecration of Human Remains from the Mycenaean Shaft Graves at Lerna in the Argolid,” in E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), METAPHYSIS: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 39] (Liège 2016) 235-245.

I. Moutafi and S. Voutsaki, “Commingled Burials and Shifting Notions of the Self at the Onset of the Mycenaean Era (1700-1500 B.C.E.): The Case of the Ayios Vasilios North Cemetery, Laconia,” JAS Reports 10(2016) 780-790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.037

N. Papadimitriou, “Counting Individuals, Reconstructing Groups. A Critical Review of Bioarchaeological Data from Middle Helladic and Mycenaean Graves,” in A. Schmitt, S. Déderix, and I. Crevecoeur (eds.), Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organization [Aegis 14] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2018) 159-188.

M. Pomadère, “De l’indifférenciation à la discrimination spatiale des sepultures? Variété des comportements à l’égard des enfants morts pendant l’HM-HR I,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Suppl. 52] (Paris 2010) 417-429.

E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki, “Burial Customs and Funerary Rites in the Prehistoric Argolid,” in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 69-83.

S. Voutsaki, “Social and Political Processes in the Mycenaean Argolid: The Evidence from the Mortuary Practices,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) I: 55-66.

S. Voutsaki, “Mortuary Display, Prestige and Identity in the Shaft Grave Era,” in I. Kilian-Dirlmeier and M. Egg (eds.), Eliten in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse zweier Colloquien in Mainz und Athen (Mainz 1999) 103-117.

H. Whittaker, “Religious Symbolism and the Use of Gold in Burial Contexts in the Late Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Periods,” SMEA 48(2006) 283-289.

C. Zerner, “Ceramics and Ceremony: Pottery and Burials from Lerna in the Middle and Early Late Bronze Ages,” in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 23-34.


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