Excavations at Aidonia
Kim
Shelton

The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology excavated, in the 2018 season, at the Late Bronze Age site of Aidonia in Greece, in collaboration with Dr. Konstantinos Kissas of the Korinthian Ephorate of Antiquites. Kim Shelton and her team of graduate and undergraduate students completed excavation of one Mycenaean chamber tomb and explored several graves and domestic features dating to the Late Roman and Byzantine periods. The large round tomb (6.20m dia.) contained at nine primary burials and numerous secondary mortuary deposits, on the floor or in cists in the floor, within a collapsed bedrock chamber. The burials range in date from the 15th to the 13th centuries BCE. The collapsed tomb was covered by deep strata of deposits from the Iron Age through the Byzantine periods indicating that the area came to be used for other functions other than burial, such as cult, craft production, and habitation. The excavated material that includes ceramic, metal, and stone objects is now under conservation and study at the Nemea Museum.

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2018
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