Mochlos IIC is the third and final part of the second volume in the Mochlos Publication Series. Volume II overall is concerned with Mochlos in the Mycenaean era, or the LM II and LM III remains uncovered by the Greek-American excavations in the summers of 1989–1994 and 2004–2005. In Mochlos IIA (Soles 2008) the contributors present descriptions of the two main sites of the Mycenaean community, including the stratigraphy and architecture of the settlement, the tombs in the Limenaria cemetery, and a list of all finds placed in their respective contexts. Soles also offers general conclusions about the...

Relatively little work has been done on prehistoric skeletal assemblages from Crete, even though a large number of tombs have been excavated on the island. A few earlier publications have been concerned with material from the Early Minoan (EM) and Middle Minoan (MM) periods (Arnott 2003 on EM I–MM II Pseira; Becker 1975 on MM I Pezoules Kephala and Kato Zakro; Carr 1960 on MM III Knossos; Triantaphyllou 2005 on the EM III/MM I Tholos Γ at Archanes). Skeletal remains from Late Minoan (LM III) Chania have been examined systematicly by Hallager and McGeorge (1992) and those from the...

A variety of burial containers were used in the two LM III cemeteries at Mochlos (Soles and Walker 2003; Soles and Triantaphyllou 2008). They include five chest sarcophagi (Tombs 2, 4, 7, 15, and 30) and four tub sarcophagi (Tombs 1, 10, 11, and 13), all from the Limenaria cemetery. There were also 20 burial pithoi, including 19 from Limenaria (one each from Tombs 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23–28, 31; and two vessels from Tomb 19) and one from the Artisans’ Quarter cemetery (Grave 2); six burial jars, all but one (Tomb 18)...

The excavations of LM III contexts at Mochlos produced a large number of small finds that are published together here by category. The largest category is jewelry, including beads, pendants, bracelets, pins, and rings, most of which were found in the tombs of the Limenaria cemetery and are therefore securely dated to the LM III period. The second largest category is ceramic tools and implements, including spindle whorls and other ceramic objects found in LM III contexts in the settlement. By far the most numerous items in this category are loomweights, most of which were manufactured in the LM I...

This is not so much a chapter about LM III tools, but a report on the stone tools recovered from LM III deposits; this is an important distiction. Given that a significant component of the pottery from LM III settlement contexts is actually residual Neopalatial material, it follows that the lithic assemblage from these deposits will also include objects of an earlier date. Unfortunately, in contrast to the case of the ceramic assemblage, it is extremely difficult to recognize which stone implements relate to pre–LM III activities because few ground and chipped stone tools are chronologically diagnostic of the...

This chapter discusses the floral and faunal remains that are listed after the description of individual houses and rooms in Mochlos IIA (Soles 2008, 5–128). Complete lists of these remains were included there in order to present them in context and will not be repeated in this chapter, which is designed to provide an overview of the various ecofactual finds. As pounted out in the introduction to this volume, the organic remains are the most difficult to classify chronologically since they may have been compromised by earlier and sometimes later occupation on the site. LM I occupation levels and...

In this chapter we examine the LM III settlement at Mochlos in its local and regional context. Although no intensive field survey has been conducted in the immediate local area (i.e., the coastal plain and low foothills immediately south and east of the island of Mochlos), several LM III sites have been reported. They include ten cemeteries and two habitations (with potential traces of three more settlements at Aspropilia, Lastro, and Plakalona) that were identified during various rescue excavations and the extensive survey of the area by Soles and Davaras in the 1980s (Soles and Davaras 1992, 418, fig. 1)....