ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis of the labor and time spent to construct the buildings and earthworks of the Heuneburg site in south-western Germany between 600 and 540 bce using the architectural energetic approach. It focuses on the issue of labor cost choice for each task in each construction project. The Heuneburg site is located along the Upper Danube River in south-western Germany. The manufacture of mudbricks at Heuneburg involved several stages: procurement of the raw materials; mixing of the raw materials; molding of the bricks; drying of the bricks; stacking. The sustainability of a mudbrick construction requires the renovation of the walls’ protective coating, especially given the Heuneburg’s wet climate. An additional workforce would have been needed from outside of the Heuneburg community. The political prominence of the Heuneburg could have made it possible. Broadly, the analysis presented herein is an example of one way to advance the use of architectural energetics in archaeology.
