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In Late Bronze Age Greece, Mycenaean authorities commissioned impressive funerary monuments, fortifications, and palatial complexes, reflecting their advanced engineering and architectural skills. Yet the degree of connectivity among Mycenaean administrative centers remains contested. In this book, Nicholas Blackwell explores craft relationships by analyzing artisan mobility and technological transfer across certain sites. These labor networks offer an underexplored perspective for interpreting the period's geopolitical dynamics. Focusing on iconic monuments like the Lion Gate relief, the refurbished Grave Circle A, and the Treasury of Atreus, Blackwell reconsiders the topographical and political evolution of Mycenae and the Argolid in the 14th-13th centuries BCE. Notable stone-working links between the Argolid and northern Boeotia also imply broader state-level relationships. His analysis contributes fresh ideas to ongoing research into the organization of the Mycenaean world.
Contents
An entrance; 1. Tools, stoneworker mobility, and the argulid; 2. Building memory: Mycenae's stonework as visual manipulation of the past ; 3. Creating wonder: Mycenae's stonework as spectacle and power statements; 4. Mycenae's relationship with Tiryns and other citadels in the Aroglid: stonework, politics, and interculturalism; 5. Beyond the Aroglid: stoneworking connections between Mycenae-Tiryns and Boeotia; Conclusions: Mycenaean political dynamics from a stonework perspective; Epilogue: memory and legends associated with the Argolid and Boeotia; References; Appendix: LBA construction tools from Mainland Greece and Islands (excluding Crete).
