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Grave Reminders : Comparing Mycenaean Tomb Building with Labour and Memory / Daniel R. Turner.

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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 &amp
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
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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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