Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in the Ruins of Rulers’ Dwellings: a Legitimisation of Power?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Staging Death: an Introduction 1
4. Getting to Funerary Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Death and Performance in the Prehistoric Aegean 11
5. Performative Places: Movement and Theatricality
6. Funerary Ritual-Architectural Events in the Temple Tomb and the Royal Tomb at Knossos 33
7. Fields of Action in Mycenaean Funerary Practices 57
8. Politics of Death at Mitrou: Two Prepalatial Elite Tombs in a Landscape of Power 89
9. Familial Places: Deathscapes and Townscapes
10. Intra, Extra, Inferus and Supra Mural Burials of the Middle Helladic period: Spatial Diversity in Practice 117
11. The Practice of Funerary Destruction in the Southwest Peloponnese 139
12. A Roof for the Dead: Tomb Design and the ‘Domestication of Death’ in Mycenaean Funerary Architecture 155
13. Placing Bodies, Embodying Places
14. Revisiting the Tomb: Mortuary Practices in Habitation Areas in the Transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kirrha, Phocis 181
15. Mortuary Practices in the Middle Bronze Age at Kouphovouno: Vernacular Dimensions of the Mortuary Ritual 207
16. ‘Death Is Not the End’: Tracing the Manipulation of Bodies and Other Materials in the Early and Middle Minoan Cemetery at Sissi 227
17. Biographies and Memories of Place
18. A Posthumanocentric Approach to Funerary Ritual and its Sociohistorical Significance: the Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tombs at Apesokari, Crete 253
19. From Performing Death to Venerating the Ancestors at Lebena Yerokambos, Crete 275
20. Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in the Ruins of Rulers’ Dwellings: a Legitimisation of Power? 297
21. From Deathscapes to Beliefscapes
22. Continuities and Discontinuities in Helladic Burial Customs During the Bronze Age 317
23. Structuring Space, Performing Rituals, Creating Memories: Towards a Cognitive Map of Early Mycenaean Funerary Behaviour 335
24. Pollution and Purity in the Argolid and Corinthia During the Early Iron Age: the Burials 361
25. Bios 389
26. Index 395