Area 63
Main Information
| Area ID | 63 |
| Site |
Souphli Magoula |
| Area type | cemetery or grave |
| Area NR | |
| Period | Thessaly/Reingruber: Early Neolithic: 'Protosesklo' |
| Dating method | material culture |
| Radiocarbon dated | None |
| Earliest date: Lab Number | |
| Earliest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Earliest date: Calibration | None |
| Earliest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Earliest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Earliest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Earliest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Earliest date: Dated by | |
| Latest date: Lab Number | |
| Latest date: 14C age (BP) | |
| Latest date: Calibration | None |
| Latest date: 14C age calibrated (BC) | |
| Latest date: Date of calibration | None |
| Latest date: Standard deviation | None |
| Latest date: Delta 13C | None |
| Latest date: Dated by | |
| Period Reference | |
| Comment | |
| Settlement type | None |
| Settlement structure | |
| Settlement building type | |
| Settlement building shape | |
| Settlement building technique | |
| Settlement archaeological features | |
| Cave/rockshelters type | None |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of graves/human remains | |
| Cave/rockshelters: Evidence of occupation | |
| Quarry exploitation type | None |
| Quarry raw material | |
| Cemetery/graves topography |
extramural |
| Cemetery/graves mortuary features |
pyre |
| Grave: number of graves | 17 |
| Grave type |
pit grave |
| Grave: type of human remains |
cremation inhumation secondary deposition |
| Grave: estimated number of individuals | |
| Grave: age groups |
adult (19-40) infans II (7-12) |
| Grave: sexes | |
| Grave: number of female sex | None |
| Grave: number of male sex | None |
| Grave: number of not specified sex | None |
| Grave: disturbance of graves | |
| Description | A total of 15 cremation burials, 2 pyres and 2 inhumation burials were found. The cremations consisted of pits in which small fragments of burnt bones, pieces of charcoal and broken vessels were found. In addition to that, in some graves also several small, roughly made miniature pots were found, which give the impression as if they had been made at the time of the funeral and burned on the fire for cremation. It is supposed that they had a symbolic meaning. Generally, only a small part of the skeleton was found, so the presumption imposes that the remains have been transferred from another place into the pits. Indeed, two bigger pits were encountered, where the dead were cremated. The pit walls showed large scorch marks and on the sides of the pits were three holes that probably originate from the wooden framework on which the dead was placed for burning. In the pits pieces of charcoal and a lot of fragments of burnt human bones were found but no vessels or other grave goods. The two inhumations were from an adult and an infans II in contracting position. The burials dating in Early Neolitic makes them to one of the earliest cremation burials found in Greece. |
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