The late minoan iii necropolis of armenoi. Volume II : biomolecular and epigraphical investigations / Yannis Tzedakis, [and many others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tzedakis, Yannis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Crete.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Cemeteries--Greece--History To 1500.

Cemeteries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Place of Publication:

Pennsylvania : Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter(pp. i-iv)

Table of Contents(pp. v-viii)

List of figures and tables(pp. ix-xii)

Contributors(pp. xiii-xiv)

The Armenoi Project(pp. xv-xvi)

Acknowledgements(pp. xvii-xviii)

Conventions, abbreviations and chronology(pp. xix-xx)

Foreword(pp. xxi-xxi)

Map of site(pp. xxii-xxii)

1 The Late Minoan III Necropolis of Armenoi: introduction(pp. 1-6)

2 Food and drink: what scientific analysis of pottery revealed through organic residue analysis(pp. 9-10)

3 The osteological study of Tomb 159(pp. 11-18)

4 Multi-isotopic (C, N, S, Sr) measurements of human skeletal material(pp. 19-28)

5 Bioarchaeological analyses of human and faunal skeletal remains and radiocarbon dating(pp. 29-50)

6 The human dimension: the archaeological significance of the scientific results(pp. 51-78)

7 The identification of da-*22-to(pp. 81-86)

8 Studies at the 'city' of Armenoi, the Necropolis and their environs(pp. 87-90)

9 The archaeological evidence which supports the identification of the Late Minoan III city of Armenoi as da-*22-to(pp. 91-114)

10 Western Crete, the 'city' of Armenoi and the fall of Pylos(pp. 115-124)

Index(pp. 125-130).

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9798888570470