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The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi: Volume II - Biomolecular and Epigraphical Investigations

The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi: Volume II - Biomolecular and Epigraphical Investigations

Tzedakis, Yannis
Martlew, Holley
Tite, Michael

Paperback

ArchaeologyAncient GreeceBiology

ISBN13: 9798888570463
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: Apr 30 2024
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.47 Width: 8.27 Depth: 10.94
Language: English
With its 232 tombs excavated, the cemetery of Armenoi provides exceptional evidence for Late Bronze Age Cretan funerary customs. The excavation documented more than 800 ceramics, 33 larnakes, and 300 metal finds as well as the skeletal material of more than 1,000 individuals, and it is largely on the latter that The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi, Volume II focuses. - American Journal Of Archaeology

The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi, Crete (ca. 1390-1190 BC) is the only intact, complete Late Minoan necropolis presently known, of which 232 tombs have been excavated. The research project was the first large-scale genomic sampling of skeletal material from a single site in Bronze Age Greece, as well as being the first time a multi-disciplinary approach with ancient DNA as its focus has been conducted on a large, well-curated necropolis assemblage. As such it provides a unique opportunity to answer archaeological questions, the most important of which are kinship, an analysis of the origin and ancestry of those buried in the tombs, the homogeneity of the population or otherwise, and diet. The analysis programme was only possible because the tombs had not been seriously disturbed, and human skeletal remains had survived and been expertly conserved. The results of ancient DNA, stable isotope analysis, osteological analysis, and radiocarbon dating are presented, providing the first detailed record of ancestry and kinship in this iconic period of Eastern Mediterranean prehistory.

In addition, the long-debated problem of the location of the wealthy city of da-*22-to, referred to many times in the Linear B tablets, is addressed and key evidence is presented. The rich finds in the Necropolis, the town excavation, and in the environs, support the interpretation that the 'city' that built the Necropolis is da-*22-to.

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