There has been very little work on burial practices in Middle Byzantine Greece (ca. 800 to ca. 1100), despite the considerable accumulation of archaeological evidence. Some graves, such as those planted in Mycenaean burial chambers in Agia Triada or the Mycenaean fortification in Tiryns appear to appropriate ancient monuments symbolically. This is also true for burials inside prehistoric mounds, such as the ones found in northern Greece (Spilaio, Parapotamos) and southern Albania (Kuçi i Zi, Piskovë). This sudden interest in old barrows is documented during the 9th century especially in those borderlands of the Byzantine themes in the Balkans, which experienced considerable military and political turmoil. The practice of burying the dead in...
Funerary tumuli are widespread in Bronze Age Greece. They do not form a homogeneous group but presen...
Spyridon N. Marinatos had foreseen (in his papers in the VII International Congress of Classical Arc...
Mortuary practices in southern Greece undergo a radical transformation at the beginning of the Mycen...
During the post-war era, excavations of tumuli constituted the bulk of our knowledge of Albania’s pr...
The burial mound is located on a rather low hill (altitude 41.03m), which rises almost perpendicular...
The Marmara Tumuli extended over a vast area in a high mountainous part of Central Greece, on Mount ...
The few Neolithic graves so far recognized in Crete are simple inhumations in rock shelters and cave...
International audienceSince the first excavations in the cemetery of tumuli in Vergina during the 19...
Bronze Age tumuli are rare in Central Greece, as they are in the rest of the Greek mainland. They ap...
Burial mounds in the Region of Istria in the northern Adriatic have long been known but few of them ...
Depuis les premières fouilles de la nécropole tumulaire de Vergina dans les années 1950, nos connais...
This research project examines the appearance and proliferation of some of the earliest cremation bu...
Up to the beginning of the 21st c., in the region between the Danube River and the Balkan range, alm...
This thesis explores the meaningful character of traces of earlier occupation and burial locations v...
The recent excavation of the tumulus of Mereto di Tomba, near Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, offers...
Funerary tumuli are widespread in Bronze Age Greece. They do not form a homogeneous group but presen...
Spyridon N. Marinatos had foreseen (in his papers in the VII International Congress of Classical Arc...
Mortuary practices in southern Greece undergo a radical transformation at the beginning of the Mycen...
During the post-war era, excavations of tumuli constituted the bulk of our knowledge of Albania’s pr...
The burial mound is located on a rather low hill (altitude 41.03m), which rises almost perpendicular...
The Marmara Tumuli extended over a vast area in a high mountainous part of Central Greece, on Mount ...
The few Neolithic graves so far recognized in Crete are simple inhumations in rock shelters and cave...
International audienceSince the first excavations in the cemetery of tumuli in Vergina during the 19...
Bronze Age tumuli are rare in Central Greece, as they are in the rest of the Greek mainland. They ap...
Burial mounds in the Region of Istria in the northern Adriatic have long been known but few of them ...
Depuis les premières fouilles de la nécropole tumulaire de Vergina dans les années 1950, nos connais...
This research project examines the appearance and proliferation of some of the earliest cremation bu...
Up to the beginning of the 21st c., in the region between the Danube River and the Balkan range, alm...
This thesis explores the meaningful character of traces of earlier occupation and burial locations v...
The recent excavation of the tumulus of Mereto di Tomba, near Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, offers...
Funerary tumuli are widespread in Bronze Age Greece. They do not form a homogeneous group but presen...
Spyridon N. Marinatos had foreseen (in his papers in the VII International Congress of Classical Arc...
Mortuary practices in southern Greece undergo a radical transformation at the beginning of the Mycen...