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Grave Reminders : Comparing Mycenaean Tomb Building with Labour and Memory / Daniel R. Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Daniel R. ( Daniel Ross), 1987- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tombs--Greece.
- Tombs.
- Civilization, Mycenaean.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Sidestone Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Explores how Mycenaean builders perceived tomb construction, its costs and rewards.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures &
- tables
- Introduction
- 1.4. Forecast: from catalogue blueprints to transient experience
- 1.3. Advancing objectives: comparative labour and grave reminders
- 1.2. Case studies and reasoning
- 1.1. Place and purpose
- Setting
- 2.1. Mycenaean tomb development
- 2.4. Summary
- 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
- 2.2. The rock canvas
- 2.2.1. Physiography of southern Greece
- 2.2.2. Soil mechanics and risks
- Artists at work: logistics in cooperative earthmoving energetics
- 3.5. Summary
- 3.4. Measuring success
- 3.4.1. Modelling tombs with photogrammetry
- 3.4.2. Finding sameness with Euclidean distance
- 3.3. Tracking progress from household to cooperative labour
- 3.3.1. Preindustrial construction logistics
- 3.3.2. Labour rates
- 3.2. Further projections on time constraints
- 3.1. Construction planning and alignment: pragmatic signalling
- A labour catalogue with multi-use tombs
- 4.4. Summary
- 4.3. Voudeni
- 4.2. Portes
- Portes Tumuli B and C groups
- 4.1. Menidi
- Reminders
- 5.5. Concluding summary
- 5.4. Labouring toward forgetting
- 5.3. Interpreting tomb scale and sameness
- 5.2. End-stage from LH IIIC Achaea
- 5.1. Building legacy in the early LH
- References Cited
- Other tombs
- Appendix 2
- Digital collection of excess tomb models
- English summary
- Nederlandse samenvatting
- Curriculum Vitae
- Blank Page
- Blank Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789088909856
- 9088909857
- OCLC:
- 1228822697
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