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Grave Reminders: Comparing Mycenaean Tomb Building With Labour and Memory - Couverture souple

Turner, Daniel R.

 
9789088909832: Grave Reminders: Comparing Mycenaean Tomb Building With Labour and Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9088909830 ISBN 13 : 9789088909832
Editeur : Sidestone Press, 2020

Synopsis

From ca. 1600 - 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary 'beehive' tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, filling with the remains of funerals forgotten over generations of reuse. In rare cases, the tombs were used once or seemingly not at all, cleaned thoroughly or sealed and abandoned entirely. Rather than focus on the missing or muddled record of funeral and post-funeral activities, this book re-examines Mycenaean tomb architecture and the decisions that guided it. From minimalistic to monumental, builders designed tombs with forethought to how commissioners and witnesses would react and remember them. Patterns suggest that memories of what tombs should look like heavily influenced new construction toward recurring shapes and appropriate scales. The wider debates over cost from 'architectural energetics' and perception in Aegean mortuary behaviour are thus revisited. Both can find common purpose in labour measured through a relative index and collective memory - how labourers and patrons saw their work. That metric for comparison lies within a median standard: in this instance, tombs expressed in terms of correlative shape and simple labour investment of the earth and rock moved to create them. This was accomplished here through photogrammetric modelling of 94 multi-use tombs in Achaea and Attica, verifying a cost-effective alternative for local authorities warding off information loss through site destruction from looting and earthquakes. Since most labour models suggest the tombs were not burdensome, commissioners held extravagant building in check by weighing the social risks and rewards of standing out from the crowd. Contents Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Setting Chapter 3. Artists at work: perspectives and logistics in cooperative building Chapter 4. A labour catalogue with multi-use tombs Chapter 5. Reminders References Cited Appendix 1. Labour rates Appendix 2. Other tombs Appendix 3. Digital collection of excess tomb models

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Daniel R. Turner holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alabama (2010) with specialisations in medieval history and the archaeology of complex societies. He received an M.Phil. in Archaeological Research from the University of Cambridge (2012) after completing a dissertation on comparative labour costs of early medieval earthworks in the British Isles. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a Staff Archaeologist for the cultural resource management firm, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI), directing more than 60 surveys and excavations across the south-eastern U.S. In 2016, he joined the ERC-funded SETinSTONE project as a PhD candidate within the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University, continuing with the project as a postdoctoral researcher in early 2020.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From ca. 1600 ¿ 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ¿beehive¿ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, filling with the remains of funerals forgotten over generations of reuse. In rare cases, the tombs were used once or seemingly not at all, cleaned thoroughly or sealed and abandoned entirely. Rather than focus on the missing or muddled record of funeral and post-funeral activities, this book re-examines Mycenaean tomb architecture and the decisions that guided it. From minimalistic to monumental, builders designed tombs with forethought to how commissioners and witnesses would react and remember them. Patterns suggest that memories of what tombs should look like heavily influenced new construction toward recurring shapes and appropriate scales. The wider debates over cost from ¿architectural energetics¿ and perception in Aegean mortuary behaviour are thus revisited. Both can find common purpose in labour measured through a relative index and collective memory ¿ how labourers and patrons saw their work. That metric for comparison lies within a median standard: in this instance, tombs expressed in terms of correlative shape and simple labour investment of the earth and rock moved to create them. This was accomplished here through photogrammetric modelling of 94 multi-use tombs in Achaea and Attica, verifying a cost-effective alternative for local authorities warding off information loss through site destruction from looting and earthquakes. Since most labour models suggest the tombs were not burdensome, commissioners held extravagant building in check by weighing the social risks and rewards of standing out from the crowd. Contents Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Setting Chapter 3. Artists at work: perspectives and logistics in cooperative building Chapter 4. A labour catalogue with multi-use tombs Chapter 5. Reminders References Cited Appendix 1. Labour rates Appendix 2. Other tombs Appendix 3. Digital collection of excess tomb models

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Éditeur
Sidestone Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9088909830
ISBN 13 
9789088909832
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
310
Coordonnées du fabricant
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