Project

Dying at the Margins of Athens: Burial Customs, Local Traditions, and Social Realities in the Attic deme of Thorikos (c. 900-300 BC)

Code
BOF/24J/2021/337
Duration
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
    • Bioarchaeology
    • Classical archaeology
    • Funerary archaeology
    • Social archaeology
Keywords
Physical anthropology slavery funerary archaeology mining demography Greece silver lead
 
Project description

This research project will collect and evaluate all material and physical anthropological data from the cemeteries of Thorikos in an attempt to reconstruct social, ideological and political realities in this deme from the Early Iron Age (900 BC) to end of the Late Classical period (300 BC), especially in relation to the city of Athens. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, following the latest developments in demographic studies, which take into account questions of age, gender, pathology, kinship ties and mobility, it is aimed to gain insights into the identity and modes of life of the burying and buried population.