The Orientations of the Nine Tholos Tombs at Mycenae

“Mycenaean tholos tombs and early Mycenaean settlements”, various authors, 1997, in Lessons, Dartmouth Web-Pages (http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/19.html); Belli P. , “Architecture as craftsmanship: LM III tholoi and their builders”, TEXNH: Craftsmen, craftswomen and craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age, ed. by Laffineur R. Betancourt P. P. (Liège, 1997), 251–5, and Plates XCIX–CI; Wace A. J. B. , “IX. The tholos tombs”, Mycenae: British School excavations, xxv (1920–23), 283–402 and Plates XLIV–LXI; idem, Mycenae: An archaeological history and guide (Princeton, 1949).

In the Dartmouth Web-Pages (ref. 1).

It should be noted that the contours are differently, and sometimes better, presented in Wace H. Mycenae guide (Meriden, Conn., 1976).

Michael Hoskin , Tombs, temples and their orientations (Bognor Regis, 2001), 59–62.

For example, Childe V. G. , “The Middle Bronze Age”, Archivo de prehistoria levantina, iv (1953), 167–85, pp. 174–5. See Robert Chapman , Emerging complexity (Cambridge, 1990), 25.