Tholos Tomb Gamma: A Prepalatial Tholos Tomb at Phourni, Archanes

by Yiannis Papadatos

Overview

This publication includes a detailed discussion of the pottery, the finds and their parallels, and a reconstruction of both the excavation and stratigraphy of Tholos Gamma in the Bronze Age cemetery of Phourni at Archanes. This evidence is used to give the historical outline of the tomb from its foundation in Early Minoan IIA until its excavation in 1972. Several problems concerning Prepalatial mortuary practices are discussed, with particular reference to Tholos Gamma and the new evidence resulting from the study of this funerary assemblage. The artifacts from the tomb include pottery, metal objects, marble figurines, other small finds, and skeletal remains.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931534178
Publisher:	INSTAP Academic Press
Publication date:	12/31/2005
Series:	Prehistory Monographs , #17
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Yiannis Papadatos is Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is directing excavation projects in Crete and his main research and teaching interests include Minoan Crete, Early Bronze Age Aegean, archaeology of death and ancient technology of ceramics and metals.

Table of Contents

Contents: 1. Introduction
2. Excavation and Stratigraphy
3. Pottery
4. Other Finds
5. Discussion of the Excavation Evidence
6. Mortuary Practices
7. Conclusions Appendix: The Human Remains, Sevi Triantaphyllou.

Editorial Reviews

The book is a very thorough, detailed and careful publication of the excavation context, with many illustrations of the plan and stratigraphic section of the tholos, the location of burials and distribution of the individual finds, in a way which is exceptional in publications of prepalatial cemeteries.[...]...an extremely useful work for every student of prepalatial Minoan Crete and an excellent documentation of a prepalatial tholos tomb assemblage.'

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2007 - Kostas Sbonias