Book contents
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Mediterranean Introductions
- Insularity and Connectivity
- Mobility, Migration and Colonisation
- Hybridisation and Cultural Encounters
- Materiality, Memory and Identity
- Community and Household
- Life and Death
- 30 Beyond the General and the Particular: Rethinking Death, Memory and Belonging in Early Bronze Age Crete
- 31 From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First: Understanding the Bronze Age Argaric Lifecourse in the Mediterranean ‘Far West’
- 32 Crossing Borders: Death and Life in Second Millennium BC Southern Iberia and North Africa
- 33 An Entangled Past: Island Interactions, Mortuary Practices and the Negotiation of Identities on Early Iron Age Cyprus
- 34 The Violence of Symbols: Ideologies, Identity, and Cultural Interaction in Central Italian Cemeteries
- Ritual and Ideology
- Index
30 - Beyond the General and the Particular: Rethinking Death, Memory and Belonging in Early Bronze Age Crete
from Life and Death
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
Book contents
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Mediterranean Introductions
- Insularity and Connectivity
- Mobility, Migration and Colonisation
- Hybridisation and Cultural Encounters
- Materiality, Memory and Identity
- Community and Household
- Life and Death
- 30 Beyond the General and the Particular: Rethinking Death, Memory and Belonging in Early Bronze Age Crete
- 31 From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First: Understanding the Bronze Age Argaric Lifecourse in the Mediterranean ‘Far West’
- 32 Crossing Borders: Death and Life in Second Millennium BC Southern Iberia and North Africa
- 33 An Entangled Past: Island Interactions, Mortuary Practices and the Negotiation of Identities on Early Iron Age Cyprus
- 34 The Violence of Symbols: Ideologies, Identity, and Cultural Interaction in Central Italian Cemeteries
- Ritual and Ideology
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on the reinvestigation of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) funerary evidence from the Crete Island. A long-standing consensus within the confines of the discipline has been that throughout the EBA, communal tombs were among the main points of reference by which the Cretan landscape and a person's place in that landscape could be defined. The advent of the EBA period on the island of Crete coincides with the appearance of two distinct funerary traditions. The first concerns mainly the south-central region of the Asterousia Mountains and involves a novel architectural type. The second is attested along several parts of the north coast and involves mainly clusters of small-sized cist or rock-cut tombs, a funerary tradition that, both in terms of morphology and material culture. The chapter examines the foregoing structural transformations in conjunction with development of the late stages of the third millennium BC, namely the appearance of burial containers.
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