The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period: Pottery, grave assemblages and the rite of cremation

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The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period
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Of Related Interest
Acknowledgements
Contents
	List of Plates
	List of Tables
Preface
1. Introduction
	1.1. Research methodology
	1.2. Chapters
2. The Kerameikos Early Cemetery
	2.1. History of research
	2.2. Tomb types
		2.2.1. Inhumation: cist grave, slab-covered pit, pit grave, shaft grave
		2.2.2. Cremation: urn burial and ash pit
	2.3. Burial grounds
	2.4. The relative sequence of the graves from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric period: state of research
		2.4.1. The cemetery on the north bank of the Eridanos river (Pompeion cemetery)
		2.4.2. The cemetery on the south bank of the Eridanosriver (Agia Triada cemetery and Sacred Way graves)
	2.5. The absolute chronologies
		2.5.1. Submycenaean
		2.5.2. The length of the Submycenaean and its absolute chronologies
		2.5.3. Transitional and Protogeometric
3. The Amphorae
	3.1. Amphorae in context: as urn-vase, as grave equipment, in pyre refuse, as grave marker
		3.1.1. The amphora-urn and the gender of the dead
	3.2. State of research on the typological series
		3.2.1. Belly-handled amphorae
		3.2.2. Neck-handled amphorae
		3.2.3. Rim-handled amphorae
		3.2.4. Shoulder-handled amphorae
		3.2.5. Methodological problems
	3.3. A proposal for a new typology
		3.3.1. Belly-handled amphorae
		3.3.2. Neck-handled amphorae
		3.3.3. Rim-handled amphorae
		3.3.4. Shoulder-handled amphorae
	3.4. Decorative motifs
	3.5. Some observations on the clay
	3.6. Concluding remarks
	3.7. Catalogue of the amphorae
4. Graves with Amphorae
	4.1. Spatial analysis of the objects in the grave
	4.2. Osteological data
	4.3. Cluster analysis and funerary variability
	4.4. The sequence of the burials with amphorae
5. Burning the Dead
	5.1. The rite of cremation: a re-examination of the archaeological aspects and literary evidence
	5.2. Early cremations in Athens: a comparison with the evidence from Perati and Salamis
	5.3. On the origin and the diffusion of the cremation burial rite in the Aegean: a reappraisal
6. Conclusions
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Illustrations Sources and Credits
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