title: Burying the palaces? Ideologies in the Shaft Grave period
creator: Heitz, Christian
subject: ddc-938
subject: Griechenland (Altertum)
subject: Greece (Antiquity) [R938]
subject: History of the ancient world to ca. 499 [T930]
subject: Copper- and Bronze Age [T930.15]
subject: Classical Archaeology [FKA]
description: The ‘Shaft Grave Phenomenon’ is often seen as a straightforward development caused by increased access to precious (‘prestige’) items. It shall be argued here that it rather mirrors a gradual transformation of the self-identity of the mainland élites. The Shaft Grave chiefs strongly took over symbols from Crete, where the palatial élite had a strong religious connotation. This points to the conclusion that the mainland élite tried to establish a more sophisticated system of religious control, unlike the individual and personal cult visible in the MH burials. They realized the potential institutionalized religious authority had as a means of domination, connected with complex and standardised systems of representation, centralization and administration of cult, and tried to introduce this idea to the mainland. However, the symbols had to be modified and translated into a language mainland people would understand, and placed in contexts traditionally used as arenas of social display. These contexts were different from the ones the symbols originally were associated with, since on the MH mainland the grave (as opposed to the Minoan palace) was the place where transcendental ideas were articulated through material actions and expressions.
date: 2008
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/89/1/Heitz.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000089
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-895
identifier:   Heitz, Christian  (2008) Burying the palaces? Ideologies in the Shaft Grave period.       
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/89/
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language: ger