My dissertation uses Performance Theory as a tool to examine the three major innovations to mortuary practices which take place at the beginning of the Mycenaean period: the creation of new tomb types, the use of these tombs for multiple burials, and the transition from intramural to extramural cemeteries. In particular, I use the work of performance theorists such as Schechner, Schneider, Austin, Butler, and Taylor, to explore how these developments altered the Mycenaeans’ experience of and relationship to death, as well as the wider cultural and social impacts of these innovations. I argue that, through repeated action and the relatively neutral and timeless nature of the tomb itself, this new mortuary landscape becomes a site of temporal leak where past/present/future performances start to blend together. This transforms the tomb into a flexible and volatile archive that constantly reperforms and renegotiates both individual and community identity. As a part of my research, I spent the summer of 2019 working with Dr. Shelton on her excavation at Aidonia, which is one of the sites I am researching for my dissertation.