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
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