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Death in Late Bronze Age Greece - Variations on a Theme (Hardcover)
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Death in Late Bronze Age Greece - Variations on a Theme (Hardcover)
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Late Bronze Age tombs in Greece and their attendant mortuary
practices have been a topic of scholarly debate for over a century,
dominated by the idea of a monolithic culture with the same
developmental trajectories throughout the region. This book
contributes to that body of scholarship by exploring both the level
of variety and of similarity that we see in the practices at each
site and thereby highlights the differences between communities
that otherwise look very similar. The introduction of wealthy
burials in the transition from the Middle Helladic period and the
building of elaborate tombs during the Late Bronze Age underscores
a long-acknowledged change in cultural importance of burials and
their locations for contemporary society. Initially archaeologists
were interested in these tombs because of the impressive finds that
were discovered in them, but as the body of literature on mortuary
rituals has grown more recently these tombs have been utilized as
lenses through which we can study the related society in novel
ways. By bringing together an international group of scholars
working on tombs and cemeteries on mainland Greece, Crete, and in
the Dodecanese we are afforded a unique view of the development and
diversity of these communities. The papers provide a penetrative
analysis of the related issues by discussing tombs connected with
sites ranging in size from palaces to towns to villages and in date
from the start to the end of the Late Bronze Age. Death in Late
Bronze Age Greece contextualizes the mortuary studies in recent
debates on diversity at the main palatial and secondary sites and
between the economic and political strategies and practices
throughout Greece. The papers in the volume illustrate the
pervasive connection between the mortuary sphere and society
through the creation and expression of cultural narratives, and
draw attention to the social tensions played out in the mortuary
arena.
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