{"product_id":"constructing-monuments-perceiving-monumentality-and-the-economics-of-building","title":"Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn many societies monuments are associated with dynamic socio-economic and political processes that these societies underwent and\/or instrumentalised. Due to the often large human and other resources input involved in their construction and maintenance, such constructions form an useful research target in order to investigate both their associated societies as well as the underlying processes that generated differential construction levels. Monumental constructions may physically remain the same for some time but certainly not forever. The actual meaning, too, that people associate with these may change regularly due to changing contexts in which people perceived, assessed, and interacted with such constructions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These changes of meaning may occur diachronically, geographically but also socially. Realising that such shifts may occur forces us to rethink the meaning and the roles that past technologies may play in constructing, consuming and perceiving something monumental. In fact, it is through investigating the processes, the practices of building and crafting, and selecting the specific locales in which these activities took place, that we can argue convincingly that meaning may already become formulated while the form itself is still being created. As such, meaning-making and -giving may also influence the shaping of the monument in each of its facets: spatially, materially, technologically, socially and diachronically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This volume varies widely in regional and chronological focus and forms a useful manual to studying both the acts of building and the constructions themselves across cultural contexts. A range of theoretical and practical methods are discussed, and papers illustrate that these are applicable to both small or large architectural expressions, making it useful for scholars investigating urban, architectural, landscape and human resources in archaeological and historical contexts. The ultimate goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people's interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Theoretical and practical considerations on monumentality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality. Introduction\u003cbr\u003eAnn Brysbaert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mounds and monumentality in Neolithic Europe\u003cbr\u003eChris Scarre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Architectural conspicuous consumption and design as social strategy in the Argolid during the Mycenaean period\u003cbr\u003eKalliopi Efkleidou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Outer Worlds Inside\u003cbr\u003eLesley McFadyen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Methodological approaches to studying architecture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interpreting architecture from a survey context: recognising monumental structures.\u003cbr\u003eYannick Boswinkel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three-dimensional documentation of architecture and archaeology in the field: combining intensive total station drawing and photogrammetry\u003cbr\u003eJari Pakkanen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set in stone at the Mycenaean Acropolis of Athens. Documentation with 3D integrated methodologies \u003cbr\u003eElisavet P. Sioumpara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Labour mobilization and architectural energetics in the North Cemetery at Ayios Vasilios, Laconia, Greece\u003cbr\u003eSofia Voutsaki, Youp van den Beld, Yannick de Raaff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Architectural energetics methods and applications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Comparative labour rates in cross-cultural contexts\u003cbr\u003eDaniel R. Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking monumentality in Teotihuacan, Mexico\u003cbr\u003eMaria Torras Freixa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Economic choice in Roman construction: case studies from Ostia\u003cbr\u003eJanet DeLaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Large-scale building in early imperial Tarraco (Tarragona, Spain) and the dynamics behind the creation of a Roman provincial capital landscape\u003cbr\u003eAnna Gutiérrez Garcia-M., Maria Serena Vinci\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Building materials, construction processes and labour: The Temple of Isis in Pompeii\u003cbr\u003eCathalin Recko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The construction process of the republican city walls of Aquileia (northeastern Italy): a case study of the quantitative analysis on ancient buildings\u003cbr\u003eJacopo Bonetto, Caterina Previato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9789088906978\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9789088906978","offer_id":39289591431261,"sku":"9789088906978","price":180.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/2ad464b2-9fa2-4f27-b45c-51baab65df12.jpg?v=1775804619","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/constructing-monuments-perceiving-monumentality-and-the-economics-of-building","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}