APXAIOΛOΓIKO EPΓO ΘEΣΣAΛIAΣ KAI ΣTEPEAΣ EΛΛAΔAΣ, 2003-2005
ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΡΟΪΣΤΟΡΙΚΟΥΣ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΝΕΩΤΕΡΟΥΣ ΧΡΟΝΟΥΣ

Περίληψη ομιλίας

Dying in Early Iron Age Thessaly.

Ioannis Georganas

[Archaeologist]

Since the great works of synthesis by Snodgrass, Desborough and Coldstream in the 1970s, it has become immediately clear that in Thessaly burial practices exhibited a fundamental divergence from those in the other areas of the Greek world during the Early Iron Age (EIA). This phenomenon has usually been explained as the result of the coexistence of different ethnic groups-one of Mycenaean origin, one indigenous and two intrusive (one from Macedonia and one from north-western Greece). In this paper, we are going to present the various types of graves used in Thessaly, accompanied by an analysis of the burial customs. A general discussion will follow, summarizing the evidence and commenting on issues such as the manipulation of death and the construction of identities.