Research Catalog

Title

Cemetery and society in the Aegean Bronze Age / edited by Keith Branigan.

Author

Round Table on Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (1996 : Sheffield, England)

Publication

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

Branigan, Keith.

Description

173 p. : ill., maps, plans; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 1

Uniform Title

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 1.

Subject

• Bronze age > Crete
• Bronze age > Greece > Congresses
• Bronze age > Greece
• Cemeteries > Crete
• Cemeteries > Greece
• Ceneteries > Greece > Congresses
• Crete (Greece) > Antiquities
• Crete (Greece) > Antiquities > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Congresses
• Greece > Antiquities > Congresses
• Greece > Antiquities
• Social archaeology > Greece > Congresses
• Tombs > Greece > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at the Round Table on Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age held in Sheffield, Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / Keith Branigan -- Cemeteries and Social and Political Landscapes -- 1. The Nearness of You: Proximity and Distance in Early Minoan Funerary Behaviour / Keith Branigan -- 2. Ideology, Rites and Rituals: A View of Prepalatial Minoan Tholoi / Joanne M. Murphy -- Tomb Architecture and Grave Furniture as Social Statements -- 3. Mortuary Evidence, Symbolic Meanings and Social Change: A Comparison between Messenia and the Argolid in the Mycenaean Period / Sofia Voutsaki -- 4. Reverberations of the International Spirit: Thoughts upon 'Cycladica' in the Mesara / Tristan Carter -- 5. Sealstones in Cemeteries: A Display of Social Status? / Alexios Karytinos -- 6. From Polis to Necropolis: Social Ranking from Architectural and Mortuary Evidence in the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Archanes / Christofilis Maggidis -- 7. Innovation, Conservatism and Variation in Mycenaean Funerary Ritual / William Cavanagh -- 8. Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age Societies / Yannis Hamilakis -- Cemetery Populations and Living Society -- 9. Pots, Labels and People: Burying Ethnicity in the Cemetery at Aghia Photia, Siteias / Peter M. Day, David E. Wilson and Evangelia Kiriatzi -- 10. Prehistoric Cemetery Populations from Northern Greece: A Breath of Life for the Skeletal Remains / Sevi Triantaphyllou -- 11. Gender Bias in Mycenaean Mortuary Practices / Christopher Mee.

ISBN

1850758220 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^98015444^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library