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Shackled skeletons
« on: Thursday, 24 March, 2016 @ 20:03:57 »
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Archaeologists To Study Shackled Skeletons From Ancient Greece To Understand Rise Of Athens

Not even four miles south of Athens lies Phaleron — a site unknown to most tourists. A ports of Athens in classical times, Phaleron also boasts one of the largest cemeteries ever excavated in Greece, containing more than 1,500 skeletons. Dating to the 8th-5th centuries BC, Phaleron is significant for our understanding of the rise of the Greek city-state. And, in particular, for understanding the violence and subjugation that went with it. Two mass burials at Phaleron include people who were tossed face-down into a pit, their hands shackled behind their backs. To learn more about these deviant burials and their relationship to Greek state formation, an international team of archaeologists is cleaning, recording, and analyzing the Phaleron skeletons.

There is significant variation in how people were buried at Phaleron. Most were interred in simple pit graves, but nearly one-third are infants and children in large jars, about 5% are cremations complete with funeral pyres, and there are a few stone-lined cist graves. One individual was even buried in a wooden boat used as a coffin – the fact that this lasted nearly three millennia shows that preservation at the site is remarkably good.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/03/24/archaeologists-to-study-shackled-skeletons-from-ancient-greece-to-understand-rise-of-athens/#84b78cc35912






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Re: Shackled skeletons
« Reply #1 on: Friday, 25 March, 2016 @ 20:51:56 »
Democracy, Jim, but not as we know it....  :unsure:

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Re: Shackled skeletons
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, 03 August, 2016 @ 13:33:03 »
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Shackled remains at ancient Greek site tell tale of intrigue

One of the strongest theories is that they were supporters of Cylon, an Athenian noble and Olympic champion who staged an attempted coup in Athens in 632 BC with the help of his father-in–law, the tyrant of Megara.

The coup failed and Cylon hid in a temple of the Acropolis. He managed to escape, but the people who backed him were killed.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-archaeology-executions-idUSKCN10C1X5

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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, 03 August, 2016 @ 15:53:44 »
As theirs is only a theory, I'll posit my own;

Unauthorised sunbed owners...

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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, 03 August, 2016 @ 20:18:24 »
As theirs is only a theory, I'll posit my own;

Unauthorised sunbed owners...

ECB financiers
Athens Metro/airport planners
Stationers selling little brown envelopes

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Any more...?!

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« Reply #5 on: Saturday, 15 July, 2017 @ 17:26:55 »
CSI Phaleron are on the case, Tony...

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Archaeologists go high-tech in 2,500-year-old Greek cold case

"We are going to use, roughly speaking, the methods made famous by television series on forensics crime science," joked Panagiotis Karkanas, laboratory director and geoarchaeologist at the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Probably the most famous of these TV series, CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", which chronicles the cases of an elite team of police forensics investigators, has spawned the shorthand CSI to describe the technology the agents use.

Karkanas' team, though technically not crime scene investigators, will apply similar high-tech methods using some of the same tools.
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-high-tech-year-old-greek-cold.html