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Economy of Non-Elite Mycenaeans

Descrizione del progetto

Oltre i palazzi: uno sguardo all’economia micenea locale

La tarda età del bronzo in Grecia evoca le immagini dei potenti complessi di palazzi micenei e di ricche sepolture d’élite. Il ruolo della popolazione non elitaria in queste economie solo recentemente inizia a ottenere l’attenzione che merita. Il progetto EcoNoMy si avvarrà di analisi isotopiche da detriti ossei, alimentari e ambientali per formulare narrazioni alternative e rilanciare la discussione sulle società non palaziali. Focalizzandosi sulle abbondanti prove degli scavi della Grecia occidentale che indicano una rete commerciale avanzata con l’Adriatico e i Balcani, EcoNoMy introdurrà metodologie combinate ad alta tecnologia che possono essere adattate per ricostruire in modo completo l’economia delle antiche comunità regionali.

Obiettivo

What is it like to live like common people in a Kingdom? The archaeology of Greece in the Late Bronze Age is dominated by the glory of the Mycenaean palaces and the rich warrior burials. The role of the non-elites remains at large an enigma, although recent research suggests that their contribution to the economy was much more critical than previously thought. EcoNoMy will apply a novel combination of bulk and single compound carbon and nitrogen amino acid isotope analyses from bone collagen, methionine sulphur isotopes, food and environmental debris from calculus, and proteins adsorbed to pottery, in order to shift the attention from elite burials to non-elite lifeways and construct an alternative narrative of the political economy. With this unrivalled integration of markers of subsistence, EcoNoMy will create a dynamic discussion on regional political ecologies and political economies and overcome the current stall in research, created by previous methodological limitations that offer a unidirectional -palatial- view of society.
With a regional focus on Western Greece, where current excavations suggest the presence of a complex system of exchange with the Adriatic and the Balkans, EcoNoMy will be the first:
1. to offer this high-tech combination of methods to reconstruct for the first time the economic character of diverse, non-elite regions
2. to directly compare and contrast dietary evidence between individuals and their pots
3. to establish the applicability of this combined methodology in archaeology but also the relative merit of each method in relation to preservation and site particularities
The outcome will place the applicant at the forefront of isotope researchers and ground truth an integrated analysis, which can be applied to all archaeological populations, while proposing an alternative archaeological narration that comprehends the role of non-elites in sociocultural development.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Meccanismo di finanziamento

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Coordinatore

UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 212 933,76
Indirizzo
HESLINGTON
YO10 5DD York North Yorkshire
Regno Unito

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Regione
Yorkshire and the Humber North Yorkshire York
Tipo di attività
Istituti di istruzione secondaria o superiore
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 212 933,76