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    "title": "Grave Reminders",
    "subtitle": "Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory",
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    "description": "From ca. 1600 \u2013 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary \u2018beehive\u2019 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.\n\nFrom 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 \u2018architectural energetics\u2019 and perception in Aegean mortuary behaviour are thus revisited. Both can find common purpose in labour measured through a relative index and collective memory \u2013 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.\n\n\nContents:\n\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nList of Figures\nList of Tables\n\nChapter 1. Introduction\n1.1. Place and purpose\n1.2. Case studies and reasoning\n1.3. Advancing objectives: comparative labour and grave reminders\n1.4. Forecast: from catalogue blueprints to transient experience\n\nChapter 2. Setting\n2.1. Mycenaean tomb development\n2.2. The rock canvas\n2.2.1. Physiography of southern Greece\n2.2.2. Soil mechanics and risks\n2.3. Sponsor\u2019s gamble\n2.3.1. Costly signalling with tombs\n2.3.2. Risks of investment: the expected standard\n2.3.3. Cost and altruism in cooperative labour\n2.4. Summary\n\nChapter 3. Artists at work: perspectives and logistics in cooperative building\n3.1. Construction planning and alignment\n3.2. Further projections on time constraints\n3.3. Tracking progress from household to cooperative labour\n3.3.1. Preindustrial construction logistics\n\u00a7 Planning and guidance \u00a7 Support \u00a7 Gendered work \u00a7 Scheduling \u00a7 Mechanics\n3.3.2. Labour rates\n\u00a7 Procurement \u00a7 Transport \u00a7 Placement \u00a7 Reuse\n3.4. Measuring success\n3.4.1. Modelling tombs with photogrammetry\n\u00a7 Alternate data collection\n3.4.2. Finding sameness with Euclidean distance\n\u00a7 AA01 standard and the Tomb Relative Index (TRex)\n3.5. Summary\n\nChapter 4. A labour catalogue with multi-use tombs\n4.1. Menidi\n4.2. Portes\n4.3. Voudeni\n4.4. Summary\n\nChapter 5. Reminders\n5.1. Building legacy in the early LH\n5.2. End-stage from LH IIIC Achaea\n5.3. Interpreting tomb scale and sameness\n5.4. Labouring toward forgetting\n5.5. Concluding summary\n\nReferences Cited\nAppendix 1. Labour rates\nAppendix 2. Other tombs\nAppendix 3. Digital collection of excess tomb models",
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