Elina M. Salminen, PhD, is the Associate Director for Humanities Initiatives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research has focused on what the mortuary record can teach us about the living in general, and about Macedonians in particular. She is an archaeologist and has worked extensively across Greece, with a focus on the archaeology of ancient households at Kastro Kallithea and Olynthos. In her current work and research, she continues to think deeply about the resonances of the ancient world in our modern communities, with a particular interest in how we can teach about the past in a way that empowers students in the present.

In this ground-breaking study Elina Salminen explores the dynamics of Macedonian society in the crucial period leading up to the kingdom’s emergence as a major power in the eastern Mediterranean. By bringing together evidence of burials and their accompanying assemblages from a wide range of sites and viewing the material through the lens of mortuary and social theory, Salminen is able to reveal Macedonian society in unprecedented breadth and detail.

• DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPART I: Mortuary Theory and Macedonian Mortuary Behaviour1. Introduction2. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to the Mortuary Record3. Macedonian Mortuary BehaviourPART II: Social Personae4. ‘Arrows in the Hand of a Mighty Man’: Children’s Burials5. Phialai and Family Feeling: Women6. War and Wine Sacks: Macedonian MenPART III: Hierarchy and Variation7. Visible Monuments, Hidden Value: Hierarchy8. Regional and Diachronic Variation9. ConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

Elina M. Salminen, PhD, is the Associate Director for Humanities Initiatives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research has focused on what the mortuary record can teach us about the living in general, and about Macedonians in particular. She is an archaeologist and has worked extensively across Greece, with a focus on the archaeology of ancient households at Kastro Kallithea and Olynthos. In her current work and research, she continues to think deeply about the resonances of the ancient world in our modern communities, with a particular interest in how we can teach about the past in a way that empowers students in the present.

In this ground-breaking study Elina Salminen explores the dynamics of Macedonian society in the crucial period leading up to the kingdom’s emergence as a major power in the eastern Mediterranean. By bringing together evidence of burials and their accompanying assemblages from a wide range of sites and viewing the material through the lens of mortuary and social theory, Salminen is able to reveal Macedonian society in unprecedented breadth and detail.

• DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPART I: Mortuary Theory and Macedonian Mortuary Behaviour1. Introduction2. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to the Mortuary Record3. Macedonian Mortuary BehaviourPART II: Social Personae4. ‘Arrows in the Hand of a Mighty Man’: Children’s Burials5. Phialai and Family Feeling: Women6. War and Wine Sacks: Macedonian MenPART III: Hierarchy and Variation7. Visible Monuments, Hidden Value: Hierarchy8. Regional and Diachronic Variation9. ConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

Elina M. Salminen, PhD, is the Associate Director for Humanities Initiatives at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research has focused on what the mortuary record can teach us about the living in general, and about Macedonians in particular. She is an archaeologist and has worked extensively across Greece, with a focus on the archaeology of ancient households at Kastro Kallithea and Olynthos. In her current work and research, she continues to think deeply about the resonances of the ancient world in our modern communities, with a particular interest in how we can teach about the past in a way that empowers students in the present.

In this ground-breaking study Elina Salminen explores the dynamics of Macedonian society in the crucial period leading up to the kingdom’s emergence as a major power in the eastern Mediterranean. By bringing together evidence of burials and their accompanying assemblages from a wide range of sites and viewing the material through the lens of mortuary and social theory, Salminen is able to reveal Macedonian society in unprecedented breadth and detail.

• DedicationList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPART I: Mortuary Theory and Macedonian Mortuary Behaviour1. Introduction2. Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to the Mortuary Record3. Macedonian Mortuary BehaviourPART II: Social Personae4. ‘Arrows in the Hand of a Mighty Man’: Children’s Burials5. Phialai and Family Feeling: Women6. War and Wine Sacks: Macedonian MenPART III: Hierarchy and Variation7. Visible Monuments, Hidden Value: Hierarchy8. Regional and Diachronic Variation9. ConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex