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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΝΟΤΙΟΥ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΑΛΚΟΥ

Abstract

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THIS RESEARCH AIMED TO EXAMINE CERTAIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROBLEM SUCH AS: A) WHETHER AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MYCENEANS-MINOANS DOES EXIST, B) WHETHER THERE IS A PROOF OR NOT OF THE INVASION OF OTHER TRIBES (NORDIC) IN THE TRADITIONAL ERA BETWEEN MIDDLE BRONZE AGE AND LATE BRONZE AGE, AND C) WHETHER THEREARE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VARIOUS SITES WHICH EXAMINED. A SAMPLE OF 504 HUMAN SKULLS HAS BEEN STUDIED (MALES AND FEMALES) TAKEN FROM 37 EXCAVATIONS FROM ARGOLIS, MESSENIA, ATTICA AND CRETE USING THE DISCRIPTIVE AND BIOMETRIC (CRANIOMETRY) METHODS. THE CRANIOMETRIC DATA HAS BEEN PROCESSED WITH UNIVARIATE (ANOVA, F-RATIO) AND MULTIVARIATE (DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS, PCA AND FACTOR ANALYSIS) STATISTICAL PROCEDURES, TRYING TO EVALUATE THE BIOLOGICAL DISTANCE AMONGTHE POPULATIONS. BY THE ESTIMATION OF THE RESULTS, IT IS CLEAR THAT: A) THE BRONZE AGE POPULATION IN S. GREECE, PRESENTS A CHARACTERISTIC VARIATION. THIS IS A RESULT OF GENETIC DEVIATION AND OF THE ADOPTION TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL PARTITIONOF THE COUNTRY. B) THERE IS NO SERIOUS REASON TO ACCEPT THE EXISTENCE OF A RACIAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MYCENEANS-MINOANS. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN SOME BIOLOGICAL DISTANCE, I THINK THAT THIS IS NOT ABLE TO PROVE SUCH A THEORY. WE CONSIDER THEM AS RELATED POPULATIONS (CLOSED OR OPENED GENETICALLY IN ANY CASE) THAT HADCHOSEN A DIFFERENT WAY OF CULTURAL EXPRESSION AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. THE RESULT WAS THE DIFFERENTIATION. C) THE MEDITERRANEAN CHARACTERISTICS SEEM TO PREDOMINATE AND D) WE SUPPOSE THAT THERE HADN'T BEEN GREAT EMIGRATIONS OR INVASIONS IN THE HELLENIC PENISULA DURING THE BRONZE AGE.

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Year dc:date
1991

Author and committee

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  • Μανώλης, Σωτήριος

Subjects

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gre

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Identifier
10.12681/eadd/1619
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oai:10442/1619

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citation

Μανώλης, Σωτήριος. ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΝΟΤΙΟΥ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΠΟΧΗ ΤΟΥ ΧΑΛΚΟΥ. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/1619