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Asine and the Argolid in the Late Helladic III Period: A socio-economic study

Birgitta L. Sjöberg 2004 © BAR Publishing
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Mycenaean society, it is commonly asserted, was characterised by centralised decision making over an integrated and culturally homogeneous region. In matters political and economic, the local rulers held sway over a population subject to taxes in kind and corvée labour. Beyond his obligations to the Palace, the Late Helladic inhabitant of the area commanded little by way of resources to engage in anything but subsistence activities. Such is the power of this long-prevailing view that, until recently, few scholars thought of questioning the logic and implications of the various concepts and models based on it. At its most simple, the argument revolves around the issue of whether Mycenaean society was strongly centralised with redistributive traits or whether the power and homogenising influence of the power base, if any, was not strong enough to touch the furthest corners of everyday, subsistence-level life. If the latter view has anything to commend it, this will have far-reaching ramifications for our perception of the nature of life and society in the Mycenaean Argolid. If, on the other hand, the long-held view can be proved to be correct, researchers will be on much firmer ground with respect to the inferences that may legitimately be drawn. In this monograph, the author addresses these issues by evaluating the conceptual and theoretical foundation upon which the now predominant view is based, as well as the claims made with respect to the nature and character of the economic system of Late Helladic society in the Argolid. Furthermore, the present study also sets out to analyse in more detail the role of Asine, a mid-tier settlement in the Argolid, with a view to establishing the vertical and horizontal linkages that this settlement may have had with the surrounding communities.
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  • 9781407326375 (ebook)
  • 9781841715902 (paperback)
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  • S1225
Subject
  • Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
  • Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
  • Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
  • Bronze Age and Iron Age
  • Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
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  • PART I
    • SETTING THE STAGE
    • 2.3 THE BINTLIFF MODEL
            • A non-graphical rendering of the hierarchy of central places suggested by Bintliff would look like this.
            • 1.Supercentre
            • 2.First-grade settlements
            • Location: Separated by a distance of 1 hour with a lesser community at the midway point.
            • Second-grade settlements
            • 4.Third-grade settlements
        • Comments
    • 2.4 THE KILIAN MODEL
      • Comments
      • 2.5 COMPARISON AND DISCUSSION OF THE SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
    • 3.4 EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS
    • PART II
      • DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE:
      • EVIDENCE FOR ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
    • PART II
      • DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE:
      • EVIDENCE FOR ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
    • PART III
      • TOMBS
    • Chapter 6
    • TOMBS: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF CHAMBER TOMBS
    • 6.1 INTRODUCTION
    • 6.2 MORTUARY DATA AS INDICATORS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS
    • 6.3 THE PURPOSE OF THE TOMB STUDY
      • 6.4 MEASURING SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS IN LATE HELLADIC MORTUARY CONTEXTS
        • The obstacles
    • Chapter 8
    • ARGIVE CHAMBER TOMBS
    • 8.1 INTRODUCTION
          • Analysis
            • Analysis
          • Analysis
          • Analysis
    • PART IV
      • HIERARCHY AND CENTRALISATION?
    • LH II (Fig.6)
    • LH IIIA2 (Fig. 8)
    • LH IIIB1 (Fig. 9)
    • LH IIIB2 (Fig. 10)
    • LH IIIC (Fig. 11)
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • PART I SETTING THE STAGE
  • CHAPTER 1 ECONOMY AND CENTRALISATION IN THE LATE HELLADIC ARGOLID
  • CHAPTER 2 ARGIVE SETTLEMENT PATTERNS
  • CHAPTER 3 ESTABLISHING RANK: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF STATUS AND WEALTH AND OTHER EMPIRICAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • PART II DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE: EVIDENCE FOR ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
  • CHAPTER 4 SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY AT ASINE
  • CHAPTER 5 THE SETTLEMENTS ON THE ARGIVE PLAIN
  • PART III TOMBS
  • CHAPTER 6 TOMBS: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF CHAMBER TOMBS
  • CHAPTER 7 THE CHAMBER TOMBS: THE CASE OF ASINE
  • CHAPTER 8 ARGIVE CHAMBER TOMBS
  • PART IV HIERARCHY AND CENTRALISATION?
  • Chapter 9 FINAL DISCUSSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
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