Grave Reminders : Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory / Daniel Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Other Title:

Grave Reminders

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2020.

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:

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

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Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Sidestone Press, viewed May 11, 2023).