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Mycenae Revisited Part 3. The Human Remains from Grave Circle A at Mycenae. Behind the Masks: A Study of the Bones of Shaft Graves I–V1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki ,
Argyro Nafplioti ,
J.H. Musgrave  and
A.J.N.W. Prag
Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki
Affiliation:
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Argyro Nafplioti
Affiliation:
Wiener Laboratory, ASCSA
J.H. Musgrave
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol
A.J.N.W. Prag
Affiliation:
The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
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Abstract

This article is the third in a series inspired by the rediscovery in 2003 of two skeletons excavated in 1877 in Shaft Grave VI in Circle A at Mycenae by Panayiotis Stamatakis. Having studied those two individuals and reconstructed their faces, and having conducted a study of strontium isotope analyses on all the individuals from Grave Circle A, we now move on to a reconsideration of the circumstances in which Shaft Graves III, IV, and V were excavated by Schliemann and Stamatakis, and place the human remains in the context of the other finds from the graves (no human remains from Graves I and II can be located at present). We then describe the first study of the skeletons themselves since Angel's work in 1937, and reassess them in the light of modern osteological techniques and theories.

To παρόν άρθρο είναν το τρίτο μιας σειράς άρθρων εμπνευσμένων από την εκ νέου ανακάλυψη, το 2003, σύο σκελετών που ανέσκαψε ο Παναγιώτης Σταματάκης το 1877 στο Λακκοεισή Tάφο VI του Tαφικού Kύκλου A των Μυκηνών. ´Eχοντας ήδη μελετήσει τα οστά αυτών των σύο ατόμων και αποκαταστήσει τα πρόσωπά τους, και έχοντας εφαρμόσει αναλύσεις για την ανίχνευση τησ ισοτοπικής αναλογίας του στροντίου σε δείγματα από την πλειοψηφία των ατόμων του Tαφικού Kύκλου A, προχωρούμε τώρα σε μια επαναδιερεύνηση των συνθηκών υπό τις οποίες ανασκάφηκαν οι Λακκοειδείς Tάφοι III, IV, και V από τους Schliemann και Σταματάκη, και συσχετίςουμε τα ανθρώπινα σκελετικά υπολείμματα με τα υπόλοιπα ευρήματα από τους τάφους (δεν έχουν ακόμη εντοπιστεί σκελετικά υπολείμματα από τους Tάφους I και II). Στη συνέχεια περιγράφουμε τα αποτελέσματα της πρώτης, μετά από εκείνη του Angel το 1937, μελέτης αυτών των ανθρωπίνων σκελετικών υπολείμμάτων, επανεξετάςοντάς τα σύμφωνα με ςύγχρονες οστεοαρχαιολογικές θεωρίες, μεθόδους και τεχνικές, με τελικό στόχο την ανασύνθεση του τρόπου ςωής των ατόμων που είχαν ταφεί στον Tαφικό Kύκλο Α.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 105 , November 2010 , pp. 157 - 224
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