The weapon burial ritual has a long term history in the Greek burial practises and recent researches have pointed out the varieties of the ritual behaviour and the need for an in-depth analysis and regional studies. The case of early Athens, where a striking number of occurrences is known for the period from the Protogeometric to the end of the Geometric, is worthy of thoroughly examination. Questions related to gender, age, ranking are treated in the paper as well as the distribution pattern within the asty area and in the whole Attic region. The Authors also calls attention on an Athenian particular form of the killed weapon ritual, with the bent sword wrapped around the urn-amphora, which appears as an identifying and exclusive marker ...
The public burial of the war dead in Classical Athens has traditionally been a subject of much schol...
At the end of the Middle Helladic period (ca. 1650-1550 BC, MH), major cultural and social changes o...
The swords deposited in the Mycenae Grave Circles are some of the most visible symbols of the emerge...
The weapon burial ritual has a long term history in the Greek burial practises and recent researche...
Abstract: Burials constitute the main evidence for existence of Athenian society during the Early ...
The article illustrates the evidence related to the weapon burial ritual in the specific context of ...
At the turn of the seventh century, Athenian burial practices underwent a series of changes, includi...
In this article, an attempt is made to enrich the conventional archaeological picture of the much-di...
The seventh century B.C. saw a number of changes in Attic mortuary practices with the emergence of t...
International audienceThe high number of dead bodies to deal with in time of mortality crises (event...
The scale, structure and organization of the Athenian society during the Early Iron Age (c. 1100 -70...
Attic mortuary practices of the last three decades of the eighth century B.C.E. (Late Geometric [LG]...
This thesis studies the evidence related to warfare and warriors in the Early Iron Age of Greece, fr...
Inhumation inside ceramic vessels, conventionally termed “enchytrismos” in modern scholarship, is a ...
Throughout the ancient Greek world mass burials are rare. Of the 10,000 excavated burials in the we...
The public burial of the war dead in Classical Athens has traditionally been a subject of much schol...
At the end of the Middle Helladic period (ca. 1650-1550 BC, MH), major cultural and social changes o...
The swords deposited in the Mycenae Grave Circles are some of the most visible symbols of the emerge...
The weapon burial ritual has a long term history in the Greek burial practises and recent researche...
Abstract: Burials constitute the main evidence for existence of Athenian society during the Early ...
The article illustrates the evidence related to the weapon burial ritual in the specific context of ...
At the turn of the seventh century, Athenian burial practices underwent a series of changes, includi...
In this article, an attempt is made to enrich the conventional archaeological picture of the much-di...
The seventh century B.C. saw a number of changes in Attic mortuary practices with the emergence of t...
International audienceThe high number of dead bodies to deal with in time of mortality crises (event...
The scale, structure and organization of the Athenian society during the Early Iron Age (c. 1100 -70...
Attic mortuary practices of the last three decades of the eighth century B.C.E. (Late Geometric [LG]...
This thesis studies the evidence related to warfare and warriors in the Early Iron Age of Greece, fr...
Inhumation inside ceramic vessels, conventionally termed “enchytrismos” in modern scholarship, is a ...
Throughout the ancient Greek world mass burials are rare. Of the 10,000 excavated burials in the we...
The public burial of the war dead in Classical Athens has traditionally been a subject of much schol...
At the end of the Middle Helladic period (ca. 1650-1550 BC, MH), major cultural and social changes o...
The swords deposited in the Mycenae Grave Circles are some of the most visible symbols of the emerge...