Grave reminders : comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory / Daniel R. Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Daniel R. ( Daniel Ross), 1987- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Tombs--Greece--History.

Tombs.

Architecture, Mycenaean.

History.

Greece.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

309 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English; with summaries in English and Dutch.

Summary:

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.0From 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:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. Place and purpose

1.2. Case studies and reasoning

1.3. Advancing objectives: comparative labour and grave reminders

1.4. Forecast: from catalogue blueprints to transient experience

2. Setting

2.1. Mycenaean tomb development

2.2. The rock canvas

2.2.1. Physiography of southern Greece

2.2.2. Soil mechanics and risks

2.3. Sponsor's gamble

2.3.1. Costly signalling with tombs

2.3.2. Risks of investment: the expected standard

2.3.3. Cost and altruism in cooperative labour

2.4. Summary

3. Artists at work: logistics in cooperative earthmoving energetics

3.1. Construction planning and alignment: pragmatic signalling

3.2. Further projections on time constraints

3.3. Tracking progress from household to cooperative labour

3.3.1. Preindustrial construction logistics

3.3.2. Labour rates

3.4. Measuring success

3.4.1. Modelling tombs with photogrammetry

3.4.2. Finding sameness with Euclidean distance

3.5. Summary

4. A labour catalogue with multi-use tombs

4.1. Menidi

4.2. Portes

4.3. Voudeni

4.4. Summary

5. Reminders

5.1. Building legacy in the early LH

5.2. End-stage from LH IIIC Achaea

5.3. Interpreting tomb scale and sameness

5.4. Labouring toward forgetting

5.5. Concluding summary.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789088909849

9088909849

9088909830

9789088909832

9088909857

9789088909856

OCLC:

1205591562

Publisher Number:

99989038029