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Grave reminders. Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory /

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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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