In 2019, the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology excavated for the fifth 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 undertook excavation in three areas of the mortuary landscape which revealed Byzantine and Roman features, the location of several collapsed tombs, and in the Middle Cemetery, adjacent to the original tombs looted and excavated in the 1970s and 1980s, two Late Helladic III (1400-1100) chamber tombs. These were heretofore unknown and had no evidence of post Bronze Age disturbance nor had they been looted. In fact, one of the two chamber tombs was the first intact and undisturbed example at Aidonia, whether from the old or new excavations. The excavated material that includes ceramic, metal, and stone objects is now under conservation and study at the Nemea Museum along with the skeletal remains.
Kim
Shelton
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2019
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