As business office of a 5-year (2017-2021) programme of systematic excavations on Anavlochos, Crete, an Early Iron Age tumulus was discovered inwards August 2018 past times a squad from the French School at Athens, nether the direction of Florence Gaignerot-Driessen.
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| Aerial photograph of the tumulus [Credit: ©EFA/Anavlochos Project/L. Kocher-A. Chalais] |
Inside a circle of limestone rubble, fifteen k inwards diameter, 3 round out pits contained the remains of burials together with cremation pyres. In the eastern business office of the circle, a 4th pit, from which no human remains were recovered, yielded an assemblage of fifteen vessels together with 5 spearheads inwards a really proficient country of preservation.
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| Assemblage from the 4th pit [Credit: ©EFA/Anavlochos Project/O. Vidalis] |
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| Spearhead from the 4th pit [Credit: ©EFA/Anavlochos Project/P. Baulain] |
Under a sandstone block that marked the centre of the round out tumulus on the stone surface, was a rectangular pit, one-half built, one-half cutting inwards the bedrock. The place of this pit, the thick layer of charcoal inwards it, equally good equally the calcined side walls, human remains together with artifacts recovered from it, all quest that it is the place of the primary cremation of the start burial associated alongside the tumulus. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-size cist grave has likewise been excavated on the south-east border of the round out tumulus containing the pit graves, adjoining its enclosure wall.
3D reconstruction of the 4th pit [Credit: ©EFA/Anavlochos Project/C. Judson, L. Kocher, A. Chalais]
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 preliminary written report of the pottery recovered shows that this imposing funerary monument was inwards purpose during the eighth together with the seventh c. BCE. This tumulus is situated inwards the lower business office of a gradient where 3 other tumuli, unfortunately really ruined past times erosion together with repeated looting inwards the past, convey likewise been located. The earthworks of the tumulus together with the archaeological survey of this surface area convey been completed.
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| Flying over the gradient alongside the 4 tumuli [Credit: ©EFA/Anavlochos Project/L. Kocher-A.Chalais] |
Source: French School at Athens [September 20, 2018]
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