Labouring with large stones A study into the investment and impact of construction projects on Mycenaean communities in Late Bronze Age Greece

• Main Author: Boswinkel, Yannick (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2021
• Subjects: Middle & Near Eastern archaeology; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; ancient Greece; labour cost study; Mycenae; Late Bronze Age; fortifications; Cyclopean
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 - 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale constructions, built with large, unwieldy blocks, may have overstretched the (economi...