Uluburun Shipwreck copper ingots
Mycenae Shaft grave III in grave circle A
Critical Essay (1 page) –
(can be short but specific information from just the content in this assignment- not other authors, or blogs or videos or you will cancel credit)
REQUIRED
Watch the video on Uluburun Shipwreck(containing Mycenaean items and international trade in 14 th c BCE (click on links in blue)
Uluburun https://youtu.be/QpudghSZdRw
read the following article ( LOOK for number and gender of dead in specific shaft graves such as III, IV, V and differences in the data between those who found and study the skeletons).
mycenae human remains shaft gr 1-5 artc 2010.pdf
read and see content in the pdf myc in ox enc and vermeule.pdf
BONUS aspect – does the recent single burial argue against the standard opinions in the pdf (oxford and Vermeule)
Optional the 2015 new discovery of Mycenaean grave near Pylos (western Peloponnesos)
https://the-past.com/feature/the-griffin-warrior-treasures-from-the-princely-tomb-of-a-mycenaean-kingdom/ single burial !
If a champion like Achillles??? , yet Achilles in Homer’s Iliad wants to share ash urn
with Patroklos under earth mound. No items given.. simple grave yet earth mound might have been large.
Instructions:
Please find specific content in the Video AND in the 2010 article AND in Pdf file (links given above in blue)
to reveal:
1) International evidence (shipwreck contents) and Mycenae grave circle A (shaft graves contents)
2) Two Specific flaws (such as missing parts, site conditions, OR ego of the scholar ) – both sites (Uluburun, grave circle A at Mycenae).
3) Difference in number and gender of dead in specific shaft grave (grave circle A at Mycenae) because ..
In conclusion, please give your serious thoughts for either question:
Are we the ‘problem’ in wanting one right answer?
Does gold insure that the occupants in shaft graves in grave circle A are royalty – kings .. then why the multiple dead?
