Descripción del proyecto
Monumentos más allá de las apariencias
Los monumentos pueden ser algo más que características de las economías políticas centralizadas y jerarquizadas, así como de estructuras de poder descendentes. Ello es lo que quiere aprovechar el equipo del proyecto DAEDALOS, financiado con fondos europeos. Tomando como ejemplo las sociedades de la Edad de Bronce del Mediterráneo oriental, los investigadores cuestionarán la narrativa predominante en torno a la arquitectura de treinta y cinco yacimientos de Grecia continental, Anatolia occidental, Creta, Chipre y las Cícladas, donde se construyeron monumentos «palaciegos» que, hasta ahora, se consideraban un símbolo del control centralizado sobre la población. El equipo de DAEDALOS cuestiona dicho supuesto al investigar la centralización organizativa de las sociedades que gestionaban los recursos laborales y materiales invertidos en la construcción. De este modo, el proyecto busca una visión más matizada de la historia.
Objetivo
DAEDALOS aims to challenge the predominant metanarrative that uniformly sees monuments as an attribute of centralised, hierarchical political economies and top-down power structures, a view that exerts a strong influence on our understanding of the organisation of Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean societies. In the 2nd mill. BCE, Mainland Greece, Western Anatolia and the islands of Crete, Cyprus and the Cyclades witness a growing architectural elaboration. Impressive ‘palatial’ monuments are built, which are often interpreted as the seat of rulers exerting centralised control over the population. The surmised political power necessary for the mobilisation and management of the human and material resources invested in monumental construction is taken as further evidence for the leading function of these edifices, and for the position of their commissioners at the top of hierarchical socio-political systems. Taking into consideration the ability for human groups with no centralised leadership to efficiently manage and control resources, DAEDALOS questions the preconceived conflation of monumental architecture and centralised hierarchical power. To assess this, the project will analyse integration and segmentation patterns in 2nd mill. BCE monumental building projects of the Aegean and Cyprus, and investigate the organisational centralisation of the societies that managed the labour and material resources invested in construction. Based on the architectural study of monuments distributed over 35 sites and their examination through new, specially devised analytical parameters, DAEDALOS will explore the possibility for grassroots, bottom-up building processes and their impact on architectural creation. By doing so, the project aims to trigger a paradigm shift in the ways we approach and interpret monumental architecture while producing nuanced and compelling definitions of Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age socio-political systems.
Ámbito científico
Palabras clave
- monumental architecture
- monumental building projects
- building process
- ancient architecture
- palaces
- resources mobilisation
- resources management
- collective performance
- collective action
- construction sequence
- cooperation dynamics
- scale of monuments
- architectural energetics
- craftspeople
- architectural labour
- GIS
- web-GIS
- spatial analysis
- ancient leadership
- socio-political organisation
- Bronze Age societies
- dual-processualism
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
9000 Gent
Bélgica