Το μηκηναϊκό νεκροταφείο του Κλάους Πατρών βρίσκεται στα νοτιοανατολικά όρια της σύγχρονης πόλης. Εντοπίστηκε και ερευνήθηκε για πρώτη φορά στο τέλος της δεκαετίας του 1930 από το Νικόλαο Κυπαρίσση, Έφορο Αρχαιοτήτων της εποχής. Ανεσκάφη εκ νέου μεταξύ των ετών 1988-1992 από τον καθηγητή του Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων, Αθανάσιο Παπαδόπουλο, υπό την αιγίδα της Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Υπηρεσίας. Η παρούσα διατριβή πραγματεύεται την τοπογραφία, την αρχιτεκτονική, τα ευρήματα, τα ταφικά έθιμα και την ιστορία της τοπικής κοινωνίας που έζησε στο ‘τέλος εποχής’ και στην περιφέρεια του μυκηναϊκού κόσμου.

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This chapter presents various significant aspects of the tombs and the activities at the Mycenaean cemetery at Clauss, near Patras there, resulting from the study and analysis of both artifacts and skeletal remains. In particular, the Clauss cemetery provides considerable skeletal remains that were examined in detail, which show that both the site and Achaea were densely populated during the Mycenaean palatial period (14th–13th c. BC). This conclusion contrasts greatly with what scholars have previously proposed: a massive infiltration of population from the Argolid in LH III C. The study of the Clauss material distinguished all LH III C burials in six successive chronological phases, which correspond more-or-less to six generations of its people. This was accomplished with the combined and careful classification of the local pottery, workshops, and styles, together with the tombs’ stratigraphy. The evaluation of such a sequence gave the unique opportunity to trace the biographies of its people. Through the identification of mothers, children, farmers, craftsmen, traders, noble ladies of the oikos, hunters, and warriors—based on the grave goods and modes of burials—the story unfolds of a vivid local society at the periphery of the Mycenaean world toward the end of its era.

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