Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Contents IX
5. Time Traveling Tumuli. The Many Lives of Bumps on the Ground. A General Introduction 1
6. Tumuli in the Western Mediterranean, 800–500 BC. A Review before the Istanbul Conference 9
7. Southern Mediterranean: Cyrene and Cyprus
8. Two Tumuli for Battus in the Agora of Cyrene 35
9. Tumuli as Power Political Statements. On Tumuli in Cyprus in an East Mediterranean and Anatolian Context 43
10. Greece, Albania and Macedonia
11. The Complex of Tumuli 9, 10 and 11 in the Necropolis of Apollonia (Albania). A Time Span from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Hellenistic Period 57
12. Social Landscape and Tumuli Burials in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Southeastern Albania 75
13. Defining Landscape. The Prehistoric Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania 89
14. Macedonian Grave Tumuli 101
15. The History of a Fourth Century BC Tumulus at Aigai/Vergina. Definitions in Space and Time 143
16. Tumulus and Memory. The Tumulus as a Locus for Ritual Action in the Greek Imagination 163
17. Forging a Link with the Past. The Evidence from Thessalian Cemeteries in the Archaic and Classical Periods(Plates 69–80) 181
18. Tumuli, Sema and Greek Oral Tradition 205
19. Thrace
20. Tumuli in Southeastern Thrace: On the Periphery? 221
21. On the Untraditional Use of Mounds in Thrace during the Late Iron Age 233
22. The Hellenistic Necropolis of the Getic Capital at Sboryanovo (Northeastern Bulgaria) 243
23. The Commemorative Rituals at Thracian Dolmens 261
24. Riders’ Burials in Thrace 269
25. The Thracian Tomb as Ritual Space of the Beyond 281
26. Early Tombs of Thrace. Questions of Chronology and Cultural Context 313
27. A Fifth Century BC Tumulus with a Wooden Sarcophagus of the Upper Mesta Valley 339
28. The Emergence and the Development of Tumuli in Eastern Thrace 359
29. Asia Minor, from Aegean Coast to Cappadocia
30. The Tumuli of Troy and the Troad 373
31. Tumuli as Points of Interest in Greek and Latin Sources 387
32. Memory and Meaning in Bin Tepe, the Lydian Cemetery of the ‘Thousand Mounds’ 407
33. Marking Karian Soil. Lydian Tumuli in Karia, Sixth to Fourth Century BC 429
34. A ‘Door’ between Two Worlds. A Reflection on Tumuli 445
35. Stone Tumuli in Pedasa on the Lelegian Peninsula. Problems of Terminology and Origin 455
36. Tumuli in Lykien. Ein Überblick über den Forschungsstand 475
37. Display of Power. The Mortuary Landscapes of Pisidian Tumuli 491
38. Roofing the Dead. Architectural Allusions in Anatolian Tumuli 501
39. The Significance of the Tumulus Burial among the Funeral Buildings of Hierapolis of Phrygia 513
40. Tumuli in the Ancient Territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia 589
41. Some Remarks on Tumuli of Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Times in Phrygia and the Development of Provincial Art 601
42. Tumulus Tombs in Western Phrygia 613
43. A Fresh Look at the Tumuli of Gordion 627
44. ‘Royal’ Tombs in Balkan-Anatolian Context. Representations of Status in Phrygian Tumuli 637
45. Le Tumulus d’Avanos et la ville sainte du grand Zeus Ouranos 649
46. Tumuli and the Expression of a Colonial ‘Middle Ground’ in the Hinterland Landscape of Ionian Sinope 657
47. Northern Black Sea
48. The Use of GIS Technologies in Studying the Spatial and Time Concentration of Tumuli in the Scythian-time Lower Dnieper Region 669
49. Kurgans in the Northeastern Azov Sea Region. Proposals for a Geo-archaeological Research Program 677
50. Eurasia
51. Archäologische und geoarchäologische Untersuchungen im Siebenstromland 705
52. Early Iron Age Burial Mounds in the Altay Mountains. From Survey to Analysis 719
53. Indices
54. Index of Names 735
55. Index of Places 738
56. Index of Tumulus Names 748
57. Index of Ancient Sources 751
58. Tumulus as Sema. Part 2 756
59. Contents 760
60. Authors 762
61. Illustration Credits 770
62. Plates
63. Plates Alcock: Plate 1-4 778
64. Plates Naso: Plate 5-12 782
65. Plates Kreutz: Plate 13 790
66. Plates Carstens: Plate 14-17 791
67. Plates Amore: Plate 18-26 795
68. Plates Beijko: Plate 27-33 804
69. Plates Martin-McAuliffe: Plate 34-38 811
70. Plates Schmidt-Dounas: Plate 39-42 816
71. Plates Kyriakou: Plate 43-56 820
72. Plates McGowan: Plate 57-68 834
73. Plates Stamatopoulou: Plate 69-80 846
74. Plates Delemen: Plate 81-90 858
75. Plates Agre: Plate 91 868
76. Plates Chichikova: Plate 92 - 105 869
77. Plates Dichev: Plate 106 - 107 883
78. Plates Georgieva: Plate 108 - 109 885
79. Plates Rabadjiev: Plate 110 - 128 887
80. Plates Stoyanov/Stoyanova: Plate 129 - 141 906
81. Plates Tonkova: Plate 142 - 155 919
82. Plates Yıldırım: Plate 156 - 167 933
83. Plates Rose/Körpe: Plate 168 - 177 945
84. Plates Zwingmann: Plate 178 - 182 955
85. Plates Luke/Roosevelt: Plate 183 - 191 960
86. Plates Henry: Plate 192 - 198 969
87. Plates Bingöl: Plate 199 - 211 976
88. Plates Diler: Plate 212 - 237 989
89. Plates Hülden: Plate 238 - 244 1015
90. Plates Hürmüzlü: Plate 245 - 249 1022
91. Plates Summerer/von Kienlin: Plate 250 - 258 1027
92. Plates Ronchetta: Plate 259 - 273 1036
93. Plates Scardozzi: Plate 274 - 289 1051
94. Plates Kelp: Plate 289 - 298 1067
95. Plates Sivas/Sivas: Plate 299 - 311 1076
96. Plates Liebhart et alii: Plate 312 - 323 1089
97. Plates Thierry: Plate 324 - 330 1101
98. Plates Doonan: Plate 331 - 336 1108
99. Plates Daragan: Plate 337 - 346 1114
100. Plates van Hoof/Schlöffel: Plate 347 - 354 1124
101. Plates Gass: Plate 355 - 369 1132
102. Plates Gheyle et alii: Plate 370 - 377 1147