shaft graves

• when did shaft graves come about?

  the start of the mycenaean age
• dimensions:

  • 2.5m deep
  • largest grave (zeta) 3.4m x 3.9m
• design:

  • chamber
  • low rubber walls
  • roof support
  • zeta - 4 post
  • holes in corners for beams to hold roof up
  • filled in
• bodies:


  • laid on their back
  • multiple in the same chamber
  • when 2nd body put in, the 1st was pushed aside/put in a corner
• gifts:

  • new stele placed per person
  • grave goods appeared for first time with shaft graves