Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia . es of the wattle, or in astate of decomposition, and full of potsherds and neolithic tools. Below thiswere found at least four layers of earth full of potsherds, bones of animals andstone implements separated from each other by thin layers of ashes. Theexcavator believes that this shrine or altar was erected on a mound where somedistinguished man had been buried, for at a depth of 270 metres from thesurface he found two skeletons, both in a cont
Prehistoric Thessaly; being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia . es of the wattle, or in astate of decomposition, and full of potsherds and neolithic tools. Below thiswere found at least four layers of earth full of potsherds, bones of animals andstone implements separated from each other by thin layers of ashes. Theexcavator believes that this shrine or altar was erected on a mound where somedistinguished man had been buried, for at a depth of 270 metres from thesurface he found two skeletons, both in a contracted attitude, (^ne of theskeletons, that of a man, lay on its right side and showed no traces of burning,the other, that of a youth, lay on his left side resting on a thick layer of concludes that the man is the distinguished person to whom the altar wasafterwards erected, and that the youth was some slave or servant buried with I Hullc, op. cit., p. 121, Kig. 33. See p. 225 ; A-2, pp. 3840. - See p. 201. • , pp. 63 ff.; ri/imnKii 1909, 3 See \11. pp- 123 ft. 198 Cliacrotiea. Scliistc. Dhrakliiiiaiii.
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