2009
DOI: 10.1017/s0068245400000241
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Mycenae Revisited Part 1. The Human Remains from Grave Circle A: Stamatakis, Schliemann and Two New Faces From Shaft Grave VI

Abstract: Building work at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens in 2003 led to the rediscovery of the two male skeletons from Shaft Grave VI at Mycenae, found by Panayiotis Stamatakis in 1877 as he completed the excavation of Grave Circle A begun by Schliemann. The find provided a triple opportunity. First came a re-assessment of Stamatakis's important and often pioneering role both at Mycenae and in the archaeology of the later Bronze Age, which has generally been overlooked both because of Schliemann's very vo… Show more

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“…In the context of an interdisciplinary research project that aimed to reconstruct the 'faces' of Grave Circle A for the first time, an anthropological examination of the remains took place. This was combined with analysis of the archaeological data provided in Stamatakis' diary regarding the exact locations within the tombs of the deceased and their grave goods (for the results of the project, see Nafplioti 2009;Papazoglou-Manioudaki et al 2009;2010;Dickinson et al 2012). Since Stamatakis never published his records, the analysis of his diary has resulted in a multitude of new discoveries about the burials, the grave goods and taphonomy in general.…”
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“…In the context of an interdisciplinary research project that aimed to reconstruct the 'faces' of Grave Circle A for the first time, an anthropological examination of the remains took place. This was combined with analysis of the archaeological data provided in Stamatakis' diary regarding the exact locations within the tombs of the deceased and their grave goods (for the results of the project, see Nafplioti 2009;Papazoglou-Manioudaki et al 2009;2010;Dickinson et al 2012). Since Stamatakis never published his records, the analysis of his diary has resulted in a multitude of new discoveries about the burials, the grave goods and taphonomy in general.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Despite the important technological developments which now assist research and expedite publication, traditional records remain equally important. For example, the surfacing of Panagiotis Stamatakis' diaries of the 1876-1877 excavation of the Shaft Graves at Mycenae now allows us for the first time to associate most of the discovered objects with particular burials: see the four 'Mycenae revisited' articles (Nafplioti 2009;Papazoglou-Manioudaki et al 2009;Dickinson et al 2012) For a synthesis of information on tombs and cemeteries in Attica, see also Privitera 2013. 3 Notable also are the advances in DNA and strontium analyses (on the latter, see, e.g., the work of Nafplioti 2011) and micromorphology (Karkanas et al 2012) of the different strands of the funerary archaeology of the southern Aegean during the LBA -where once we had 'appendices' containing specialized studies, we should now be aiming to offer an integrated interpretation of funeral archaeology: a social archaeology of death completely interwoven with the world of the living, 4 with sound methodology and clear theoretical awareness of the problems at stake.…”
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