Publication Cover
Childhood in the Past
An International Journal
Volume 17, 2024 - Issue 1
111
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Children Under the Floor: An Emotional Response to a Middle Helladic Burial Practice

References

  • Ariès, P. 1974. Western Attitudes Toward Death. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Arnold, J., and P. Buschman Gemma. 2008. “The Continuing Process of Parental Grief.” Death Studies 32 (7): 658–673. doi:10.1080/07481180802215718.
  • Arnott, R., and A. Morgan-Forster. 2010. “Health and Disease in Middle Helladic Greece.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 461–470. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Balitsari, A. 2019. “The ‘House of Pithoi’: An early Middle Helladic (MH) household in the South Quarter of Argos (Argolid, Peloponnese).” Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 143 (2): 455–543. doi:10.4000/bch.912.
  • Balitsari, A. In preparation. Plasi I. The Middle Helladic Megaron A and the associated cist-tombs in its propylon (Athens University Review of Archaeology Suppl. Series). Athens: Kardamitsa Publications.
  • Banks, E. C. 2013. Lerna: A Preclassical Site in the Argolid, Volume VI. The Settlement and Architecture of Lerna IV. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
  • Blackburn, E. 1970. “Middle Helladic Graves and Burial Customs, with Special Reference to Lerna in the Argolid.” PhD diss. University of Cincinnati.
  • Blackman, D. 2001. “Archaeology in Greece 2000–2001.” Archaeological Reports 47: 1–144. doi:10.1017/S057060840000332X.
  • Bulle, H. 1907. Orchomenos I: Die älteren Ansiedlungsschichten. Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • Caskey, J. L. 1958. “Excavations at Lerna 1957.” Hesperia 27 (2): 125–144. doi:10.2307/147056.
  • Caskey, J. L. 1973. “Greece and the Aegean islands in the Middle Bronze Age.” In The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 2.1: The Middle East and the Aegean Region, c.1800–1380 BC, edited by I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, and E. Solberger, 117–140. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Cavanagh, W., and C. Mee. 1998. A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece. Jonsered: Paul Åströms Förlag.
  • Chapin, A. P. 2021. “What is a Child in Aegean Prehistory?” In Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by L. A. Beaumont, M. Dillon, and N. Harrington, 26–41. London: Routledge.
  • Cherry, J. E. 2016. “Middle Helladic Reflections.” In Social Change in Aegean Prehistory, edited by C. W. Wiersma, and S. Voutsaki, 168–184. Oxford: Oxbow books.
  • Cosmopoulos, M. B. 2014. The Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis: The Bronze Age. Athens: The Archaeological Society at Athens.
  • Croissant, F., A. Balitsari, P. Baeriswyl, and G. Touchais. Forthcoming. Argos. Les Fouilles de l’Aphrodision I. Le site et les fouilles – Les niveaux anterieurs au sanctuaire Les niveaux d’occupation de l’Helladique Moyen (Études Péloponnésiennes 16). Paris: École française d’Athènes.
  • Day, J. 2020. “Sensory Approaches to the Aegean Bronze Age.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology, edited by R. Skeates, and J. Day, 377–395. London: Routledge.
  • Deshayes, J. 1966. Argos. Les fouilles de la Deiras (Études Péloponnésiennes 4). Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin.
  • Dickinson, O. T. P. K. 1977. The Origins of Mycenaean Civilisation. Göteborg: Paul Åströms Förlag.
  • Dickinson, O. T. P. K. 2010. “The ‘Third World’ of the Aegean? Middle Helladic Greece Revisited.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 13–27. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Donley, L. W. 1987. “Life in the Swahili Town House Reveals the Symbolic Meaning of Spaces and Artefact Assemblages.” The African Archaeological Review 5: 181–192. doi:10.1007/BF01117092.
  • Duhig, C., G. Jones, C. Mourer-Chauviré, A. Nicodemus, D. S. Reese, and M. J. Rose. 2008. “The Human and Other Organic Remains.” In Ayios Stephanos. Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia (BSA Suppl. 44), edited by W. D. Taylour, and R. Janko, 485–525. Witney: Alden Press.
  • Einarsdóttir, J. 2004. Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
  • Einarsdóttir, J. 2021. “Maternal Grief in Cross-Cultural Context: Selective Neglect, Replaceable Infants and Lifesaving Names.” Death Studies 45 (1): 61–70. doi:10.1080/07481187.2020.1851882.
  • Forsén, J. 1992. The Twilight of the Early Helladics. A Study of Disturbances in East-Central and Southern Greece towards the End of the Early Bronze Age. Jonsered: Paul Åströms Förlag.
  • Gallou, C. 2020. Death in Mycenaean Laconia: A Silent Place. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
  • Gallou, C. 2021. “Children and Death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece.” In In Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by L. A. Beaumont, M. Dillon, and N. Harrington, 436–455. London: Routledge.
  • Georgiadis, M. 2011. “Child Burials in Mesolithic and Neolithic Southern Greece: A Synthesis.” Childhood in the Past 4: 31–45. doi:10.1179/cip.2011.4.1.31.
  • Georgousopoulou, T. 2004. “Simplicity vs Complexity: Social Relationships and the MHI Community of Asine.” In The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited, edited by J. C. Barrett, and P. Halstead, 207–213. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
  • Gilmore, H., C. Schafer, and S. Halcrow. 2013. “Tapu and the Invention of the ‘Death Taboo’: An Analysis of the Transformation of a Polynesian Cultural Concept.” Journal of Social Archaeology 13 (3): 331–349. doi:10.1177/1469605313503229.
  • Golden, M. 1988. “Did the Ancients Care When Their Children Died?” Greece and Rome 35 (2): 152–163. doi:10.1017/S0017383500033064. https://www.jstor.org/stable/642999.
  • Goldman, H. 1931. Excavations at Eutresis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Günkel-Maschek, U. 2021. “Children and Aegean Bronze Age Religion.” In Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by L. A. Beaumont, M. Dillon, and N. Harrington, 299–313. London: Routledge.
  • Hamilakis, Y. 2002. “The Past as Oral History.” In Thinking Through the Body. Archaeologies of Corporeality, edited by Y. Hamilakis, M. Pluciennik, and S. Tarlow, 121–136. New York: Springer.
  • Hamilakis, Y. 2011. “Archaeologies of the Senses.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, edited by T. Insoll, 208–225. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hamilakis, Y. 2014. Archaeology and the Senses. Human Experience, Memory, and Affect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Harris, O. J. T., and T. F. Sørensen. 2010. “Rethinking Emotion and Material Culture.” Archaeological Dialogues 17 (2): 145–163. doi:10.1017/S1380203810000206.
  • Hoaen, A. 2020. “Environmental and the Senses.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology, edited by R. Skeates, and J. Day, 144–178. London: Routledge.
  • Ingvarsson-Sundström, A. 2003. “Children Lost and Found. A Bioarchaeological Study of Middle Helladic Children in Asine with a Comparison to Lerna, with an Appendix by Helena Soomer.” PhD diss., Uppsala University.
  • Ingvarsson-Sundström, A. 2010. “Tooth Counts and Individuals: Health Status in the East Cemetery and Barbouna at Asine as Interpreted from Teeth.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 471–477. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Ingvarsson-Sundström, A., S. Voutsaki, and E. Milka. 2013. “Diet, Health and Social Differentiation in Middle Helladic Asine: A bioarchaeological View.” In Diet, Economy and Society in the Ancient Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens on 22-24 March 2010 (Pharos Suppl. 1), edited by S. Voutsaki, and S. M. Valamoti, 149–161. Leuven: Peeters.
  • Jakoby, N. R. 2012. “Grief as a Social Emotion: Theoretical Perspectives.” Death Studies 36 (8): 679–711. doi:10.1080/07481187.2011.584013.
  • Johnson, M. 2010. Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Joyce, R. A. 2011. “In the Beginning: The Experience of Residential Burial in Prehispanic Honduras.” Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 20 (1): 33–43. doi:10.1111/j.1551-8248.2011.01026.x.
  • Kamp, K. A. 2001. “Where Have All the Children Gone? The Archaeology of Childhood.” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 8 (1): 1–34. doi:10.1023/A:1009562531188.
  • Kanz, F., K. Grossschmidt, and J. Kiesslich. 2010. “Subsistence and More in Middle Bronze Age Aegina Kolonna: An Anthropology of Newborn Children.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 479–487. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Lagia, A., and W. Cavanagh. 2010. “Burials from Kouphovouno, Sparta, Lakonia.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 333–346. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Lagia, A., I. Moutafi, R. Orgeolet, D. Skorda, and J. Zurbach. 2016. “Revisiting the Tomb: Mortuary Practices in Habitation Areas in the Transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kirrha, Phocis.” In Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean, edited by A. Dakouri-Hild, and M. J. Boyd, 181–205. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
  • Lally, M., and T. Ardren. 2008. “Little Artefacts: Rethinking the Constitution of the Archaeological Infant.” Childhood in the Past 1: 62–77. doi:10.1179/cip.2009.1.1.62.
  • Langdon, S. 2021. “Changing States: Daily Life of Children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece.” In Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by L. A. Beaumont, M. Dillon, and N. Harrington, 178–190. London: Routledge.
  • Lebegyev, J. 2009. “Phases of Childhood in Early Mycenaean Greece.” Childhood in the Past 2: 15–32. doi:10.1179/cip.2009.2.1.15.
  • Lee, R. L. M. 2008. “Modernity, Mortality and Re-Enchantment: The Death Taboo Revisited.” Sociology 42 (4): 745–759. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038508091626.
  • Manceau, D., and E. Tissier-Desbordes. 2006. “Are Sex and Death Taboos in Advertising? An Analysis of Taboos in Advertising and a Survey of French Consumer Perceptions.” International Journal of Advertising 25 (1): 9–33. doi:10.1080/02650487.2006.11072949.
  • Maran, J. 1995. “Structural Changes in the Pattern of Settlement During the Shaft Grave Period on the Greek Mainland.” In Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 5th International Aegean Conference. University of Heidelberg, Archäologisches Institut, 10-13 April 1994, edited by R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier, 67–72. Liège - Austin: Kliemo.
  • Maran, J. 1998. Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Studien zu den kulturellen Verhältnissen in Südosteuropa und dem zentralen sowie östlichen Mittelmeerraum in der späten Kupfer- und frühen Bronzezeit. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH.
  • Maran, J. 2007. “Seaborne Contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium BC: The Unfolding of the Mediterranean World.” In Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory Across Borders. Proceedings of the International Conference Bronze and Early Iron Age Interconnections and Contemporary Developments between the Aegean and the Regions of the Balkan Peninsula, Central and Northern Europe, University of Zagreb, 11-14 April 2005 (Aegaeum 27), edited by I. Galanaki, H. Tomas, Y. Galanakis, and R. Laffineur, 3–21. Liège: Kliemo.
  • Mcgeorge, P. J. P. 2013. “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean Bronze Age: Reflections on Symbolism and Eschatology with Particular Reference to Crete.” In 2èmes Rencontres d’archéologie de l’IFEA : Le Mort dans la ville Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début de l’Age du Bronze à l’époque romaine, Nov 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, edited by O. Henry, 1–20. Instabul: Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes. https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00808172.
  • Milka, E. 2010. “Burials Upon the Ruins of Abandoned Houses in the Middle Helladic Argolid.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 347–355. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Moore, A. 2009. “Hearth and Home: The Burial of Infants within Romano-British Domestic Contexts.” Childhood in the Past 2: 33–54. doi:10.1179/cip.2009.2.1.33.
  • Mylonas, G. 1930. “Οι προϊστορικοί κάτοικοι της Ελλάδος και τα ιστορικά ϵλληνικά φύλα.” Αρχαιολογική Εφημϵρίς 69: 1–29.
  • Nilsson Stutz, L. 2016. “The Importance of ‘Getting It Right’: Tracing Anxiety in Mesolithic Burial Rituals.” In The Archaeology of Anxiety. The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear, edited by J. Fleisher, and N. Norman, 21–40. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3231-3_2
  • Nilsson Stutz, L. 2020. “Sensing Death and Experiencing Mortuary Ritual.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology, edited by R. Skeates, and J. Day, 149–163. London: Routledge.
  • Nordquist, G. C. 1990. “Middle Helladic Burial Rites: Some Speculations.” In Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11-13 June, 1988, edited by R. Hägg, and G. C. Nordquist, 35–41. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens.
  • Nordquist, G. C., and A. Ingvarsson-Sundström. 2005. “Live Hard, Die Young: Middle and Early Late Helladic Mortuary Remains of Children From the Argolid in Social Context.” In Autochthon: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of his Retirement, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, 9 November 2005, edited by A. Dakouri-Hild, and S. Sherratt, 156–174. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Nugent, R. 2020. “Emotion and the Senses in Archaeology.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology, edited by R. Skeates, and J. Day, 109–129. London: Routledge.
  • Olsen, B. A. 1998. “Women, Children and the Family in the Late Bronze Age: Differences in Minoan and Mycenaean Constructions of Gender.” World Archaeology 29: 380–392. doi:10.1080/00438243.1998.9980386.
  • Papageorgiou, I. 2008. “Children and Adolescents in Minoan Crete.” In From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000–1100 BC. Vol. 2: Essays, edited by M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, G. Rethemiotakis, and N. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, 89–95. New York: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.
  • Parker Pearson, M. 1999. The Archaeology of Death and Burial. Stroud: Sutton.
  • Peperaki, O. 2004. “The House of the Tiles at Lerna: Dimensions of ‘Social Complexity’.” In The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 6), edited by J. C. Barrett, and P. Halstead, 214–231. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
  • Peperaki, O. 2010. “Models of Relatedness and Early Helladic Architecture: Unpacking the EH II Hearth Room.” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23 (2): 245–264.
  • Peperaki, O. 2016. “The Value of Sharing: Seal Use, Food Politics, and the Negotiation of Labor in Early Bronze II Mainland Greece.” American Journal of Archaeology 120 (1): 3–25. doi:10.3764/aja.120.1.0003.
  • Philippa-Touchais, A. 2013. “Les tombes intra-muros de l’Helladique Moyen à la lumière des fouilles de l’Aspis d’Argos.” In Sur les pas de Wilhelm Vollgraff: Cent ans d’activités archéologiques à Argos. Actes du colloque international organisé par la IVe EPKA et l’École française d’Athènes, 25-28 septembre 2003 (Recherches franco-helléniques 4), edited by D. Mulliez, 75–100. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Philippa-Touchais, A. 2019. “Death in the Early Middle Helladic Period (MH I-II): Diversity in the Construction of Mnemonic Landscapes.” In Μνήμη/Mneme. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 17th International Aegean Conference, University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018 (Aegaeum 43), edited by E. Borgna, I. Caloi, F. M. Carinci, and R. Laffineur, 221–231. Leuven: Peeters.
  • Pomadère, M. 2010. “De l’indifférenciation à la discrimination spatiale des sépultures? Variété des comportements à l’égard des enfants morts pendant l’HM-HR I.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8–12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 417–429. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Pullen, D. 2008. “The Early Bronze Age in Greece.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by C. W. Shelmerdine, 19–46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rappaport, R. A. 1999. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rutter, J. B. 2003. “Children in Aegean Prehistory.” In Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past, edited by J. Neils, and J. H. Oakley, 30–57. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Sarri, K. 2016. “Intra, Extra, Inferus and Supra Mural Burials of the Middle Helladic Period: Spatial Diversity in Practice.” In Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean, edited by A. Dakouri-Hild, and M. J. Boyd, 117–138. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
  • Sayer, D. 2010. “Who’s Afraid of the Dead? Archaeology, Modernity and the Death Taboo.” World Archaeology 42 (3): 481–491. doi:10.1080/00438243.2010.498665. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20799442.
  • Silverman, G. S., A. Baroiller, and S. R. Hemer. 2020. “Culture and Grief: Ethnographic Perspectives on Ritual, Relationships and Remembering.” Death Studies 45 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1080/07481187.2020.1851885.
  • Skeates, R., and J. Day. 2020. “Afterwards: Sensory Archaeology.” In The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology, edited by R. Skeates, and J. Day, 556–562. London: Routledge.
  • Smith, D. M. 2011. “Reconciling Identities in Life and Death: The Social Child in the Early Helladic Peloponnese.” Childhood in the Past 4: 46–62. doi:10.1179/cip.2011.4.1.46.
  • Stone, L. 1977. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
  • Tarlow, S. 2000. “Emotion in Archaeology.” Current Anthropology 41 (5): 713–746. doi:10.1086/317404.
  • Tarlow, S. 2012. “The Archaeology of Emotion and Affect.” Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 169–185. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145944.
  • Triantaphyllou, S. 2010. “Prospects for Reconstructing the Lives of Middle Helladic Populations in the Argolid: Past and Present of Human Bone Studies.” In Mesohelladika. La Grèce continentale au Bronze Moyen. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, en collaboration avec l’American School of Classical Studies at Athens et le Netherlands Institute in Athens, Athènes, 8-12 mars 2006 (Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Suppl. 52), edited by A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. C. Wright, 441–451. Athens: École française d’Athènes.
  • Tsountas, C. 1908. Aι Προϊστορικαί Ακροπόλϵις Διμηνίου και Σέσκλου. Athens: Archaeological Society.
  • Turner, J. H., and J. E. Stets. 2005. The Sociology of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Vermeule, E. T. 1964. Greece in the Bronze Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Volk, A. A., and J. A. Atkinson. 2013. “Infant and Child Death in the Human Environment of Evolutionary Adaptation.” Evolution and Human Behavior 34 (2): 182–192. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.11.007.
  • Voutsaki, S. 2010. “Middle Bronze Age: Mainland Greece.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC), edited by E. H. Cline, 99–112. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Voutsaki, S., and E. Milka. 2017. “Social Change in Middle Helladic Lerna.” In Social Change in Aegean Prehistory, edited by C. W. Wiersma, and S. Voutsaki, 98–123. Oxford: Oxbow books.
  • Voutsaki, S., A. J. Nijboer, and C. Zerner. 2009. “Middle Helladic Lerna: Relative and Absolute Chronologies.” In Tree-Rings, Kings, and Old-World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm, edited by S. W. Manning, and M. J. Bruce, 151–161. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
  • Voutsaki, S., S. Triantaphyllou, A. Ingvarsson-Sundström, S. Kouidou-Andreou, L. Kovatsi, A. J. Nijboer, D. Nikou, and E. Milka. 2005. “Project on the Middle Helladic Argolid: A Report on the 2005 Season.” Pharos 13: 93–117.
  • Walter, T. 1991. “Modern Death: Taboo or not Taboo?” Sociology 25 (2): 293–310. doi:10.1177/0038038591025002009. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42857623.
  • Weiberg, E. 2007. Thinking the Bronze Age. Life and Death in Early Helladic Greece. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet.
  • Weiberg, E. 2016. “Early Helladic III: A Non-Monumental But Revitalized Social Arena?” In In Social Change in Aegean Prehistory, edited by C. W. Wiersma, and S. Voutsaki, 32–48. Oxford: Oxbow books.
  • Weiberg, E. 2017. “Contrasting Histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean: Uniformity, Regionalism and the Resilience of Societies in the Northeast Peloponnese and Central Crete.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27 (3): 479–494. doi:10.1017/S095977431700018X.
  • Weiberg, E., and M. Finné. 2013. “Mind or Matter? People-Environment Interactions and the Demise of Early Helladic II Society in the Northeastern Peloponnese.” American Journal of Archaeology 117 (1): 1–31.doi:10.3764/aja.117.1.0001.
  • Whittaker, H. 2014. Religion and Society in Middle Bronze Age Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wiersma, C. W. 2020. “House (Centric) Societies on the Prehistoric Greek Mainland.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 39 (2): 141–158. doi:10.1111/ojoa.12190.
  • Zerner, C. 1990. “Ceramics and Ceremony: Pottery and Burials from Lerna in the Middle and Early Late Bronze Ages.” In Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11-13 June, 1988, edited by R. Hägg, and G. C. Nordquist, 23–34. Stockholm: Paul Åströms Förlag.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.