Ritual Practice between the Late Bronze Age and Protogeometric Periods of Greece

In this study Gemma Marakas explores continuities in ritual practice from the Mycenaean culture through the Bronze Age collapse to the development of city states in the Protogeometric period. For reasons of space funerary rites are excluded from the study, which instead compiles, and analyses a gazetteer of shrine sites across mainland Greece. Themes discussed include spatial arrangement and landscape setting, the status of participants in ritual actions, the nature of votive offerings, and the forms taken by rituals.