FAUNAL REMAINS FROM EARLY HELLADIC II LERNA (ARGOLID GREECE)

Abstract

Recent analysis of preserved fauna from the 1952-58 excavations at Lerna stored in Argos and Stockholm allows us to reexamine the fauna published in 1969 by the late Prof. Nils-Gustaf Gejvall as the first of the Lerna final reports. The first fauna reanalysis was on the Late Helladic II-III material and published in this journal in 2008. The present detailed study of the much earlier Early Helladic II material uses the revised phasing, detailed context information, and fuller analysis of the preserved samples including butchery and burning. The final report on the architecture and pottery for this period was published by Wiencke (2000).