Grave Reminders : : Comparing Mycenaean Tomb Building with Labour and Memory.

• Author: Turner, Daniel R.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Sidestone Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)

Explores how Mycenaean builders perceived tomb construction, its costs and rewards.

Table of 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 -- Blank Page -- Blank Page.