This book investigates the complex relationship between funerary treatment and wider social dynamics through a contextual analysis of human skeletal remains and associated mortuary data from Voudeni, an important Mycenaean (1400-1050 BC) chamber tomb cemetery in Achaea, Greece. This book presents new perspectives and challenges for all archaeologists with interests in maritime connectivity. Combining archaeological, geoarchaeological and anthropological approaches with ancient texts and network theory, he demonstrates the application of this scheme in several case studies. He offers a complete template of conceptual and methodological tools for recovering small worlds and the communities that inhabited them. Dr Tartaron argues that local maritime networks, in the form of 'coastscapes' and 'small worlds', are far more representative of the true fabric of Mycenaean life. These long-distance relations have been celebrated and much studied by contrast, the vibrant worlds of local maritime interaction and exploitation of the sea have been virtually ignored. By all accounts a seafaring people, they enjoyed maritime connections with peoples as distant as Egypt and Sicily. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age.
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