Children Under the Floor: An Emotional Response to a Middle Helladic Burial Practice

IF 0.8 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthi Balitsari
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ABSTRACTThe paper discusses the emotional context of child burials performed during the Middle Helladic period in houses still in use. Recent evidence, gained mainly from modern fieldwork, supports the reality of these interments, despite some counter-arguments raised based on the unorthodox location of them. Here, it is proposed that the cultural changes that occurred at the end of the Early Helladic period might have triggered sufficient psychological pressure that, in conjunction with the emergence of new societal forms, led communities to gradually accept this particular funerary practice, which had been rather marginal until then. Although the important role of metaphysical considerations is touched on here, a number of questions – primarily driven by an emotional approach – may reveal interesting paths for future research.KEYWORDS: IntramuralstratigraphykinshiphouseholdanxietyregionalityArgolidMarathon AcknowledgementsMany thanks are owned to present directors of the Marathon excavation, Prof. Yiannis Papadatos and Prof. Giorgos Vavouranakis of the National and Kapodistrian University at Athens, for allowing me to present evidence from the fieldwork, before the final publication. As this paper was made feasible alongside my other research duties during my post-doctoral stay at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, I would also like to express my gratitude to Prof. Jan Driessen, Dr. Charlotte Langohr, and Dr. Sylviane Déderix for their generous support all of these years. Last but not least, many thanks to Dr. Don Evely for reading and correcting the manuscript, as well as to the editorial board and the reviewers for their fruitful comments. All shortcomings that remain are my own.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
地板下的孩子:对中期希腊埋葬习俗的情感反应
【摘要】本文探讨了中世纪希腊时期在仍在使用的房屋中进行的儿童葬礼的情感背景。最近的证据,主要是从现代田野调查中获得的,支持了这些坟墓的真实性,尽管有人提出了一些反对意见,这些反对意见基于它们的非正统位置。在这里,有人提出,早期希腊时期结束时发生的文化变化可能引发了足够的心理压力,加上新的社会形式的出现,导致社区逐渐接受这种特殊的丧葬习俗,在此之前,这种习俗一直相当边缘化。尽管这里触及了形而上学考虑的重要作用,但一些问题——主要是由情感方法驱动的——可能会为未来的研究揭示有趣的路径。感谢雅典国立和卡波迪特里亚大学的现任马拉松挖掘主任Yiannis Papadatos教授和Giorgos Vavouranakis教授,感谢他们允许我在最终出版之前展示田野调查的证据。由于这篇论文是在我在新鲁汶天主教大学做博士后期间完成的,同时我也要感谢Jan Driessen教授、Charlotte langgohr博士和Sylviane dsamidrix博士这些年来对我的慷慨支持。最后但并非最不重要的是,非常感谢Don Evely博士阅读和修改手稿,以及编辑委员会和审稿人的富有成效的意见。剩下的缺点都是我自己的。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。
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Childhood in the Past
Childhood in the Past Social Sciences-Anthropology
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期刊介绍: Childhood in the Past provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of papers from any field of study which can further knowledge and understanding of the nature and experience of childhood in the past.
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