property · prop_mortuary_transition_evidence
Mortuary transition evidence
Cemetery or burial evidence for changing tomb form, cremation, grave assemblage, or burial location.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Research description
Mortuary change may reflect identity, status, ritual, mobility, or local innovation; it is not an automatic migration proxy.
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines property
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Provides detailed western evidence.
Locator: LC IIIB–CG tombs and pyres - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Prevents uniform interpretation.
Locator: Island-wide mortuary variation