The results of excavations carried out at two Late Minoan III sites at Mochlos in eastern Crete are presented. The stratigraphy and architecture of a total of 31 tombs and 11 houses are discussed together with a complete list of artifacts, ecofacts, and skeletal remains from each context. The cemetery remains mirror the settlement remains, and the conclusions discuss how the two sites reflect each other. Rarely in Crete are a settlement and its cemetery both preserved, and it is extremely fortunate to be able to excavate both.
Contents:
1. The Late Minoan III Settlement: Houses A, B, Γ, Δ, Ε, Ζ, H, Θ, Ι, Κ, Λ, Μ and N; 2. The Late Minoan III Cemetery at Limenaria: Tombs 131; 3. Conclusions: Life and Death in a Small Late Minoan III Community; Appendix A. An Experimental Study: Reconstructing the Ritual Killing of the Ceramic Vessels from Tomb 15.
402p, 7 tables, 142 b/w figs, 57 b/w pls
(Prehistory Monographs 23, INSTAP Academic Press, 2008)
ISBN-10: 1-931534-23-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-931534-23-9