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Pakkanen, Jari and Brysbaert, Ann (Eds.): Building BIG – Constructing Economies: from Design to Long-Term Impact of Large-Scale Building Projects: Panel 3.6, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2021 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018, Volume 10). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.850

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12/08/2021

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Jari Pakkanen (Ed.), Ann Brysbaert (Ed.)

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

Panel 3.6

Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018

This volume contains various studies that range from prehistoric Greek building programmes to building in the Roman period. The economic growth of modern societies has been closely linked with construction industries: investments, transport infrastructures for materials and labour-intensive building programmes all have a large impact on local, regional and even global economies. The end results have shaped the built environment of our everyday lives and have often led to an increased quality of life and affluence, though there are many cases that did the opposite as well. Large-scale building projects in pre-industrial societies required extensive manual labour to be invested from the moment materials were scouted for, over the extraction, transportation, use and the subsequent maintenance. Since most ancient societies were based on subsistence economies, important decision-making was a daily balancing act between building work and agriculture. These decisions often strongly influenced the patterns of land use and may have also resulted in circular economic strategies. The papers presented in this volume emphasise the importance of the socio-economic and political structures and decision-making that resulted in ‘Building Big’, irrespective of the shape and final size of the projects.

Jari Pakkanen is Professor of Greek Archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London. He specialises in ancient architecture, three-dimensional documentation and quantitative methods in archaeology. He was the director of the Finnish Institute at Athens in 2013–2017.

Ann Brysbaert is Professor of Ancient Technologies, Materials and Crafts at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is the Principal Investigator of SETinSTONE, an ERC Consolidator Project combining aspects of monumental architecture, energetics studies and prehistoric land-use strategies in the Aegean.

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Table of Contents
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Titelei
a-iv
Contents
v
Martin Bentz, Michael Heinzelmann
Preface
vii
Ann Brysbaert, Jari Pakkanen
Building BIG – Constructing Economies: from Design to Long-Term Impact of Large-Scale Building Projects. An Introduction
1-9
Ann Brysbaert
Logistics and Infrastructure in Support of Building BIG in the Late Bronze Age Argolid, Greece
11-26
Kalliopi Efkleidou
Understanding Large Urban Planning Production in Mycenaean Greece: the Case of Mycenae
27-43
Sabine Beckmann
Built to Last – Middle Bronze Age Landscaping Development and Its Economic Implications in the Region of Agios Nikolaos, Crete
45-57
Jari Pakkanen
Building Big and Greek Classical and Hellenistic Houses? Estimating Total Costs of Private Housing in Attica
59-75
Janet DeLaine
Building for the Gods: the Capitolium at Ostia
77-80
Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M.
Stone for a Provincial Capital – Procurement and Transport Logistics for the Monumentalization of Roman Tarraco
81-93
Ben Russell
Shipments Great and Small: Moving Building Materials by Sea
95-108

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