出版社：Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
摘要：In the Neolithic of Northern Greece the disposal of the deceased is strongly related to
the community of the living, and in most cases to the built environment. Burials often occur in close
proximity to, or underneath ‘domestic’ structures. The constant association of dead ancestors with
the living social environment may indicate a particular desire by Neolithic people to negotiate their
past by incorporating it into their own present. This paper addresses such issues, based on new evidence
from the Neolithic settlement of Avgi, NW Greece. A group of cremations were recently located
inside ten small pots buried in an open space in the Neolithic village. The burials consisted of tiny
amounts of heavily burnt human bones and, in two cases, were accompanied by carbonized seeds.
This paper will discuss the occurrence of the burial pots and the associated cremations as tokens of
memory and of special links to the past represented by the dead ancestors
