FAH206H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 21: Chamber Tomb, Pithos, Western Greece
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Death and burial oxford handbook of the bronze age aegean funeral practices were well developed before the start of the neolithic period. Great attention paid to the skulls; sometimes surrounded by a circle of stones. Darkness of cave heightened the psychological impact of these rituals. Secondary burials -> in settlements; dead are buried elsewhere: the body has been burned, remains are buried in a pit. Familes did not use funeral as a way to stress status distinctions or have a great ceremony. Some communities did have complex ritual practices reflect a set of beliefs. Early bronze age graves were built of stone dead has a more visible presence taken up elsewhere in the cyclades dead buried in a position with their legs bent up symbolic. Early bronze age cemeteries in greece concentrated in the eastern mainland. Each grave outlined with a border of stones.
