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Grave Reminders - Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory (Paperback)
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Grave Reminders - Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory (Paperback)
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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. From 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.
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