Set in Stone - A retrospective impact assessment of human and environmental resource usage in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Monumental Architecture, Greece

Project Information

SETinSTONE

Grant agreement ID: 646667

DOI 10.3030/646667

Project closed

EC signature date 13 May 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 28 February 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 975 200,00

EU contribution € 1 975 200,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

Publications

Other (6)

Labouring and its costs in the Prehistoric Aegean

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: From Concept to Monument. Time and Cost of Construction in the Ancient World. Conference in Honour of Janet DeLaine, 16-18 January 2020, Wolfson College, University of Oxford., 2022, Page(s) in press
Publisher: Archaeopress

SETinSTONE project webpage

Author(s): N. van de Beek, A. Brysbaert, E. Vikatou, D. Turner, Y. Boswinkel, R. Timonen, V. Klinkenberg, H. Stöger
Published in: 2020
Publisher: http://setinstone.eu/

What we can learn from the Mycenaeans

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: Making and creating with ages-old knowledge Handcrafted creations from the past provide solutions for issues today, 2015
Publisher: Leiden University

Making and creating with ages-old knowledge. Handcrafted creations from the past provide solutions for issues today.

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, J. Mans, A. van Gijn, A. Verbaas, D. Pomstra, M. Kuijpers, D. Fontijn, L. Jacobs
Published in: 2015
Publisher: Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology

The elephant in the tomb: Finding the Mycenaean ‘blueprint’ for rock-cut chambers.

Author(s): D. Turner
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Leiden Archaeology Blog

Book review of: Schmidt-Hofner, S., Ambos, C. and P. Eich (eds) 2016. Raum-Ordnung. Raum und soziopolitische Ordnungen im Altertum. (Akademiekonferenzen 18). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag WINTER

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: Babesch, Issue 94, 2019, Page(s) 251-253, ISBN 978-3-8253-6429-8
Publisher: Peeters
DOI: 10.2143/bab.94.0.3286789

Monographic books (7)

SHAPING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES. Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, I. Vikatou, D. Turner, J. Pakkanen
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9789464260953
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Grave Reminders. Comparing Mycenaean tomb building with labour and memory

Author(s): D.R. Turner
Published in: 2020, ISBN 9789088909849
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Making, Thinking, and Being Together. Past Social practices in Technological Production. Inaugural address, held on 25/10/2019. Leiden University, Groot Auditorium.

Author(s): Brysbaert, A.
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Leiden University

LABOURING WITH LARGE STONES. A study into the investment and impact of construction projects on Mycenaean communities in Late Bronze Age Greece

Author(s): Y. Boswinkel
Published in: 2021, ISBN 9789464280098
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building. Theoretical and methodological approaches to the built environment [nearly completed]

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert, Daniel Turner, Yannick Boswinkel, Elisavet Sioumpara, Janet DeLaine, Lesley McFadyen, Jari Pakkanen, Chris Scarre, Maria Torras Freixa, Kalliopi Efkleidiou, Sofia Voutsaki, Youp van den Beld, Yannick de Raaff, Cathalin Recko, Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M., Maria Serena Vinci, Jacopo Bonetto, Caterina Previato
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Breaking Boundaries: Connecting the Aegean Bronze Age

Author(s): Rom, I., D. Turner, D. Filioglou, F. Slim, Y. Beld, R. Timonen, Y. Boswinkel, A. Brysbaert
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archaeologie Supplement, Issue 2, 2021
Publisher: Eelde: Barkhuis Publishing

Artisans versus Nobility? Multiple Identities of Elites and ‘Commoners’ Viewed Through the Lens of Crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean.

Author(s): Brysbaert, A. and A. Gorgues
Published in: 2017, ISBN 9789088903960
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Forces of the hands, forces of the lands’. An awareness of physical and social multi-tasking in the agrarian and economic landscape of the Late Bronze Age Argive Plain

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: Groniek, Issue 222, 2020, Page(s) 59-82, ISSN 0169-2801
Publisher: Stichting Groniek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

The “moving” taskscape of the Late Bronze Age Argive Plain

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, Issue 65, 2021, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 0922-3312
Publisher: Barkhuis Publishing

Highways and byways in Mycenaean Greece. Human-environment interactions in dialogue

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, E. Vikatou, H. Stöger
Published in: Arctos, Issue 54, 2020, Page(s) 33-94, ISSN 0570-734X
Publisher: Klassillis-filologinen yhdistys

Efficient three-dimensional field documentation methods for labour cost studies: Case studies from archaeological and heritage contexts

Author(s): Jari Pakkanen, Ann Brysbaert, Daniel Turner, Yannick Boswinkel
Published in: Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Issue 17, 2020, Page(s) e00141, ISSN 2212-0548
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.daach.2020.e00141

SETinSTONE: an impact assessment of the human and environmental resource requirements of Late Bronze Age Mycenaean monumental architecture

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 91/358, 2017, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.121

People and plants. Piecing together archaeological and archaeobotanical data to reconstruct plant use and craft activities in Mycenaean Tiryns

Author(s): Vetters, M.; Brysbaert, A., Ntinou, M.; Tsartsidou, G. and E. Margaritis
Published in: Opuscula, Issue 9, 2016, Page(s) 93-132, ISSN 2000-0898
Publisher: Svenska Institutet i Athen and Svenska Institutet i Rom

Book chapters (18)

Crafting as making, thinking and being together. Ownership revisited.

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, H. Hochscheid
Published in: H. Hochscheid and B. Russell (eds), The Value of Making (Studies in Classical Archaeology)., 2021
Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols.

Painting biographies.

Author(s): Brysbaert, A.
Published in: Cutting-Edge Technologies in Ancient Greece. Cutting-Edge Technologies in Ancient Greece: Materials Sciences Applied to Trace Ancient Technologies in the Aegean World., 2020, Page(s) 81-88, ISBN 978-1-78925-298-9
Publisher: Oxbow Books

2021. Building BIG – Constructing Economies: from Design to Long-Term Impact of Large-Scale Building Projects. Introduction.

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, J. Pakkanen
Published in: Building BIG – Constructing Economies: from Design to Long-Term Impact of Large-Scale Building Projects (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World), Issue 10, 2021, Page(s) 1-10
Publisher: Propylaeum
DOI: 10.11588/propylaeum.850

Building the Tholos tomb in Tiryns: comparative labour costs and field methods.

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, D. Turner, I. Vikatou
Published in: Shaping Cultural Landscapes: Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022, Page(s) 39-64, ISBN 978-94-6426-095-3
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Cross-Crafting and Its Meaning for Innovation in the Late Bronze Age Context of Tiryns, Greece

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: F. Klimscha, S. Hansen and J. Renn (eds), Contextualising Ancient Technology: from Archaeological Case Studies towards a Social Theory of Ancient Innovation Processes (Berlin Studies of the Ancient World), Issue 73, 2021
Publisher: Berlin: Edition Topoi
DOI: 10.17171/3-73

Mobility and labour efforts along prehistoric roads and Least Cost Paths in the Argolid, Greece

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology., Issue 16, 2022, Page(s) 197-216, ISBN 9781800500594
Publisher: Equinox
DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42487

Technologies and Representations within Bronze Age Aegean Architecture

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert
Published in: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, Issue 47, 2017, Page(s) 75-93, ISBN 9789-082225143
Publisher: Peeters

Artisans versus Nobility? Crafting in context: introduction.

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert
Published in: Artisans versus Nobility? Multiple Identities of Elites and ‘Commoners’ Viewed Through the Lens of Crafting from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean, 2017, Page(s) 13-38, ISBN 9789-088903960
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality: introduction

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert
Published in: Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Built Environment., 2018, Page(s) 21-47, ISBN 978-90-8890-696-1
Publisher: Sidestone

Comparative labour rates in cross-cultural contexts

Author(s): Daniel Turner
Published in: Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Built Environment., 2018, Page(s) 195-217, ISBN 978-90-8890-696-1
Publisher: Sidestone

Set in stone at the Mycenaean Acropolis of Athens. Documentation with 3D integrated methodologies.

Author(s): Elisavet Sioumpara
Published in: Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Built Environment., 2018, Page(s) 141-167, ISBN 978-90-8890-696-1
Publisher: Sidestone

Interpreting architecture from a survey context: recognizing monumental structures.

Author(s): Yannick Boswinkel
Published in: Constructing Monuments, Perceiving Monumentality and the Economics of Building. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Built Environment., 2018, Page(s) 105-115, ISBN 978-90-8890-696-1
Publisher: Sidestone

'Set in Stone'? Technical, socio-economic and symbolic considerations in the construction of the Cyclopean-style walls of the Late Bronze Age Citadel at Tiryns, Greece.

Author(s): Brysbaert, A.
Published in: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, Issue 45, 2015, Page(s) 69-90, ISBN 978-90-822251-2-9
Publisher: Peeters

Set in stone? Constructed symbolism viewed through an architectural energetics’ lens at Bronze Age Tiryns, Greece.

Author(s): Brysbaert, A.
Published in: Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia, Issue 45, 2015, Page(s) 91-105, ISBN 978-90-822251-2-9
Publisher: Peeters

Logistics and infrastructure in support of building BIG in the Late Bronze Age Argolid, Greece.

Author(s): A. Brysbaert
Published in: Building BIG – Constructing Economies: from Design to Long-Term Impact of Large-Scale Building Projects. (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World), Issue 10, 2021, Page(s) 11-26
Publisher: Propyleum

All roads lead to Mycenae. The Late Bronze Age road network in the Argolid.

Author(s): A. Brysbaert, I. Vikatou
Published in: Shaping Cultural Landscapes: Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2022, ISBN 9789464260953
Publisher: Sidestone Press

Saving up for a rainy day? Climate events, human-induced processes, and their potential effects on people’s coping strategies in the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Argive Plain, Greece.

Author(s): R. Timonen, A. Brysbaert
Published in: Climate and Society in Ancient Worlds Diversity in Collapse and Resilience., 2021
Publisher: Palgrave

Life and death at Mycenae at the end of the Prepalatial period. The case of the chamber tomb south of Grave Circle B.

Author(s): E. Konstantinidi-Syvridi, C. Paschalidis, A. Nafplioti, A. Brysbaert
Published in: A.-L. Schallin and I. Tournavitou (eds), Mycenaeans up to Date. The Archaeology of the North Eastern Peloponnese – Current Concepts and New Directions., 2015, Page(s) 405-431, ISSN 0586-0539978-91-7916-063-0
Publisher: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen

Non-peer reviewed articles (3)

Barbro Santillo Frizell: Tra Terra e Cielo. Cupole e obelischi nella cultura mediterranea.

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert
Published in: Gnomon, Issue 90/8, 2018, Page(s) 723-728, ISSN 0017-1417
Publisher: C.H. Beck
DOI: 10.17104/0017-1417-2018-8-723

SETinSTONE: A retrospective impact assessment of human and environmental resource usage in Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Monumental Architecture, Greece

Author(s): Ann Brysbaert, Victor klinkenberg, Yannick Boswinkel, Daniel Turner, Riia Timonen, Hanna Stoger, Elisavet Sioumpara
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie, Issue 58, 2018, ISSN 0922-3312
Publisher: Barkhuis Publishing Eelde

A tale of technologies: constructing monuments and perceiving monumentality

Author(s): Brysbaert Ann
Published in: Melbourne Historical Journal. The Amphora Issue, Issue 43(2), 2016, Page(s) 1-33, ISSN 0076-6232
Publisher: The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies