Labouring with Large Stones: A Study Into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece Boswinkel Yannick
Labouring with Large Stones: A Study Into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece Boswinkel Yannick This book explores the cost,…
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Labouring with Large Stones: A Study Into the Investment and Impact of Construction Projects on Mycenaean Communities in Late Bronze Age Greece Boswinkel Yannick
This book explores the cost, expressed in labor, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale constructions, built with large, unwieldy blocks, may have overstretched the (economic) capabilities of communities, leading to their collapse.In order to determine the labor costs, the building process is deconstructed and for each sub-process, the costs are determined. 1600 - 1050 BCE).
However, a simplistic number expressing the labor (in person-hours, for example), gives limited insight into the impact such building projects may have had on the communities. The costs for these sub-processes are based on the amount of material that is required and the speed with which the tasks associated with these processes can be performed. Hence, elaborate comparisons are made to put these