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A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary contexts excavated and/or simply reported in the region from the 19th century to present day. The book will discuss and reconstruct the emergence and development of the Mycenaean mortuary tradition in Lakonia by examining the landscape of death, the burial architecture, the funerary and post-funerary customs and rituals, and offering patterns over a longue durée. The author proposes patterns of continuity from the Middle Bronze Age (even the Early Bronze Age in terms of burial architecture) to the LBA and, equally important, from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age,and reconstructs diachronic processes of invention of tradition and identity in Mycenaean communities, on the basis of tomb types and their material culture. The text highlights the social, political and economic history of Late Bronze Age Lakonia from the evolution of the Mycenaean civilisation and the establishment of palatial administration in the Spartan vale, to the demise of Mycenaean culture and the turbulent post–collapse centuries, as reflected by the burial offerings. The book also brings to publication the chamber tombs at Epidavros Limera that remained largely unpublished since their excavation in the 1930s and 1950s. Epidavros Limera was one of the most important prehistoric coastal sites in prehistoric southern Greece (early 3rd–late 4th millennium BC), and one of the main harbour towns of the Mycenaean administrative centres of central Lakonia. It is one of very few Mycenaean sites that flourished uninterruptedly from the emergence of the Mycenaean civilisation until after the collapse of the palatial administration and into the transition to the Early Iron Age. The present study of the funerary architecture and of the pottery from the tombs suggests that the site was responsible for the introduction of the chamber tomb type on the Greek mainland in the latest phase of the Middle Bronze Age (definitely no later than the transitional Middle Bronze Age/Late Bronze Age period), and not in the early phase of the Late Bronze Age (Late Helladic I) as previously assumed.

Burial --- Bronze age --- History --- Burial - Greece - Peloponnesus (Peninsula) - History - To 1500 --- Bronze age - Greece - Peloponnesus (Peninsula)

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Beschaving [Myceense ] --- Civilisation mycénienne --- Civilization [Mycenaean ] --- Cultuur [Myceense ] --- Myceense beschaving --- Myceense cultuur --- Mycenaean civilization --- Mycene (Verdwenen stad)--Cultuur --- Mycènes (Ville disparue)--Civilisation --- Burial --- Bronze age --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeological dating --- Argolis Peninsula (Greece) --- Antiquities --- Tombs --- Burial - Greece - Argolis. --- Bronze age - Greece - Argolis. --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Argolis. --- Archaeological dating - Greece - Argolis.

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Bronze age --- Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- -Burial --- -Funeral rites and ceremonies --- -Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Civilization --- Congresses --- Persson, Axel W. --- -Congresses --- Argolis Peninsula (Greece) --- -Argolic Akte (Greece) --- Argolid (Greece) --- Antiquities --- Conferences - Meetings --- -Antiquities --- Funerals --- Argolic Akte (Greece) --- Cryomation --- Bronze age - Greece - Argolis Peninsula - Congresses. --- Burial - Greece - Argolis Peninsula - Congresses. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Greece - Argolis Peninsula - Congresses.

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Homme préhistorique --- Man [Prehistoric ] --- Mens [Prehistorische ] --- Prehistoric man --- Prehistorische mens --- Prehistory --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric peoples --- Tombs --- Burial --- Bronze age --- Greece --- Antiquities --- -Burial --- -Funeral rites and ceremonies --- -Prehistoric peoples --- -Tombs --- -Bronze age --- -Civilization --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Human beings --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Greece. --- -Greece --- Civilization --- To 146 B.C. --- History --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Greece --- Antiquities, Prehistoric - Greece --- Prehistoric peoples - Greece --- Tombs - Greece --- Burial - Greece --- Bronze age - Greece --- Greece - Antiquities

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This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific sets of data, this volume instead focuses on a series of topical connections that highlight important facets of death and commemoration

Burial --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Memorialization --- Sepulchral monuments --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Sépulture --- Funérailles --- Commémorations --- Monuments funéraires --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Rites et cérémonies --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Roman --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Public health --- Coffins --- Dead --- Grave digging --- Burial - Greece --- Burial - Rome --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Greece --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Rome --- Memorialization - Greece --- Memorialization - Rome --- Sepulchral monuments - Greece --- Sepulchral monuments - Rome --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Rome