The analysis of well documented MH houses and house assemblages from
the main sites is undertaken by Sofia
Voutsaki, in collaboration with the excavators, or scholars
entrusted with the study of the material from Lerna (Carol Zerner),
Argos-Aspis (Gilles Touchais and Anna Philippa-Touchais)
and Asine (Gullog Nordquist).
Sofia Voutsaki has presented the first results of this analysis at the MESOHELLADIKA conference. |
 Grave BE26 in House 45, Lerna (Courtesy C.Zerner) |
 Golden pendant. Aspis, Argos. (From Touchais & Pierart, Argos) |
The objectives of this analysis are:
- To compare houses in terms of size, construction, design and contents;
- To examine the distribution of economic activities (craft production, storage and consumption areas) across the settlements;
- To examine the distribution of exclusive items (metal objects, ceramic imports, etc) among the different households.
- To compare the domestic and the funerary assemblage.
The main questions addressed here are the extent of differentiation within and between communities. The comparison of settlement and funerary data also provides important insights into sumptuary behaviour and the funerary ideology of the period.
