Return ticket, 'Minoan' and 'Mycenaean' tholos tombs at Knossos

The origin of the tholos tomb is a topic that has been carefully analyzed in the last decades, but it seems that there is still something to say. The aim of this paper is to analyze not the technical aspects, already well reported in a very rich literature, but to investigate the possible different meanings and uses of two funerary monuments that apparently belong to the same category: namely the 'Minoan' tholos and the 'Mycenaean' tholos. But with particular reference to examples embedded in a very specific territory, the Knossos valley, where the two types seem to follow one another