Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television

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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.

Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds’ from ‘strange old worlds.’ But more than a well-spring for SF scenarios, the genre’s archaeological imaginary invites us to consider the ideological implications of digging up the past buried in the future. A cultural study of an array of very popular, though often critically-neglected, North American SF film and television texts–running the gamut of telefilms, pseudo-documentaries, teen serial drama and Hollywood blockbusters–Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries. By treating SF texts as documents of archaeological experience circulating within and between scientific and popular culture communities and media, Excavating the Future develops critical strategies for analyzing SF film and television’s critical and adaptive responses to post 9/11 geopolitical concerns about the war on terror, homeland security, the invasion and reconstruction of Iraq, and the ongoing fight against ISIS.

A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries.

Published on247 pages28 imagesISBN:9781786941190 (Hardcover) |eISBN:9781786948731 (PDF)

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Battling Babylon
Chapter 1: Manticore
Chapter 2: Stargate SG-1
Chapter 3: Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Part 2: Of Artifacts and Ancient Aliens
Chapter 4: Ancient Aliens
Chapter 5: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Chapter 6: Smallville Part 3: Cyborg Sites
Chapter 7: Battlestar Galactica
Chapter 8: Prometheus Envoy Works Cited
Index

(u)Mzantsi Classics: Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa

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An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press and African Minds websites

Though Greco-Roman antiquity (‘classics’) has often been considered the handmaid of colonialism, its various forms have nonetheless endured through many of the continent’s decolonising transitions. Southern Africa is no exception. This book canvasses the variety of forms classics has taken in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and especially South Africa, and even the dynamics of transformation itself. How does (u)Mzantsi classics (of southern Africa) look in an era of profound change, whether violent or otherwise? What are its future prospects? Contributors focus on pedagogies, historical consciousness, the creative arts and popular culture. The volume, in its overall shape, responds to the idea of dialogue – in both the Greek form associated with Plato’s rendition of Socrates’ wisdom and in the African concept of ubuntu. Here are dialogues between scholars, both emerging and established, as well as students – some of whom were directly impacted by the Fallist protests of the late 20-teens. Rather than offering an apologia for classics, these dialogues engage with pressing questions of relevance, identity, change, the canon, and the dynamics of decolonisation and potential recolonisation. The goal is to interrogate classics – the ways it has been taught, studied, perceived, transformed and even lived – from many points of view.

Published on272 pagesISBN:9781802077469 (Paperback) |eISBN:9781802079135 (PDF)

Table of Contents

1 Nothing about us? Reflections on classics in southern Africa (Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu and Grant Parker)
I FIRST DIALOGUE: ON BAGGAGE
2 Classical imagery and policing the African body (Ian Glenn)
3 Classics and colonial administration in Southern Rhodesia (Obert Mlambo and John Douglas McClymont)
4 Conversation with Christiaan Bronkhorst
II SECOND DIALOGUE: ON INTERSECTING IDENTITIES
5 Classics for the third millennium: African options after The Fall (Jo-Marie Claassen)
6 The liberatory potential of Latin studies: Stellenbosch University’s Latin Project (Reshard Kolabhai and Shani Viljoen)
7 Conversation with Chanté Bhugwanth
III THIRD DIALOGUE: ON CLASSICS AND THE CANON
8 Responses to crisis: Cicero in Zimbabwe (Madhlozi Moyo)
9 Rethinking the commemorative landscape in South Africa after The Fall: A pedagogical case study (Samantha Masters)
10 Conversation with Amy Daniels
IV FOURTH DIALOGUE: FROM RECEPTION TO RE-IMAGINATION
11 African port cities and the classics (Carla Bocchetti)
12 ‘Wilder than Polyphemus’: Towards a tragic poetics of the post-colonial consumption of symbols (David van Schoor)
13 Conversation with Nuraan Essop
14 Ovid in the time of statues (Grant Parker)

Open Access Journal: Bulletin d’Archéologie Algérienne

 
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Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality

Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance

Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance

  • Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance
  • Analyses how Hellenism becomes a mode of theatricality
  • Looks at the interface between theatricality and performativity
  • Revises the fraught relationships between tradition and innovation within modernism more generally
  • Examines modernist acting theories and the ways they engage with classical theories of acting
  • Examines modernist theories of puppetry and how they re-write classical theories of puppetry
  • Reads the modernist encounter with Geek tragedy as a re-staging of the ancient quarrel
  • Proposes a modernist aesthetic of Greek tragedy based on Hellenism as theatricality, that radically revises the philosophical discourses of tragedy so central for the project modernity from German Idealism onwards
  • This modernist approach to Greek tragedy is read as parallel to the development of Performance Studies and Reception Studies, contributing to a more experimental, open and democratic view of the classics and their contemporary relevance

This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, literary and performing arts, the modernist love/hate relationship with classical Greek tragedy is read as contributing to a modernist notion of theatricality, one that follows a double motion, revising both our understanding of Greek tragedy and of modernism itself. Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D, and Bertolt Brecht and their various, sometimes successful sometimes failed experiments in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page, are presented as radical experiments in and gestures towards the autonomy of performance. In the process the artists of the theatre themselves – the actor, the designer, the director, the playwright – are reconfigured and given a lineage and genealogy, through this modernist revision of tragedy and the tragic not as as a philosophical or philological tradition, but as a performance practice.

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Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction: ‘What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?’
  2. Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig and the Dream of an Impossible Theatre
  3. Poetic Drama: Theatricality, Performability and Translation
  4. H. D.: Feet, Hands and Hieroglyphs
  5. Epic, Tragic, Dramatic Theatre and the Brechtian Project
  6. Afterword: (No) More Masterpieces

Bibliography
Index

 

Monday, February 27, 2023

Digging up the Bible? The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967)

Margreet L. Steiner & Bart Wagemakers

This is the account of a remarkable excavation. It started with a modest dig on an unremarkable tell in Jordan. The name of the tell does not occur in the Bible, and no ancient town of any importance was to be expected under the rubble. The excavator Henk Franken had not yet made a name for himself within the archaeological community.

And yet, from 1960 onwards history was being (re)written at Tell Deir Alla. To discover the secrets of the tell, the expedition team defied cold, rain and stormy winds for months on end, sleeping in rattling tents and working long days on the tell and in the camp. And with success! A meticulous yet efficient excavation method was introduced, the already tenuous relationship between Bible and archaeology was further exacerbated, and the study of excavated pottery was given a scientific basis. The name Deir Alla became an international benchmark for modern scientific research, for prompt publication of the remarkable finds and for independent interpretation of the excavation results.

The story of the excavations at Tell Deir Alla in the 1960s have never been told in any detail, and the excavation results have mostly been published in scholarly books and journals which are difficult to access. This book hopes to remedy that. It recounts the story of the first ten years of the project, from 1959 when funding for the project was sought, until 1969 when the first report was published. The first section describes the organization of the project before the expedition team went out into the field. The second part takes the reader to the actual field work and describes the occupation history of the tell. The story is illustrated by numerous photographs and plans, many of which are being published for the first time.

Ook verkrijgbaar in het Nederlands: We graven hier niet de bijbel op!

Paperback ISBN: 9789088908736 | Hardback ISBN: 9789088908743 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 182x257mm | 156 pp. | Language: English | 85 illus. (bw) | 30 illus. (fc) | Keywords: ancient Near East, tell excavations, Jordan, Henk Franken, Deir Alla 

Prologue

Chapter 1. Excavating in Jordan
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
The East Jordan Valley
Tell Deir Alla
The tent camp

Chapter 2. From theologian to archaeologist
From theologian to archaeologist
Tell es-Sultan: a source of archaeological inspiration
From Tell es-Sultan to Tell Deir Alla
Sailing his own course…

Chapter 3. This is how you organise a dig!
Start of the organisation in the homeland
The organisation in Jordan

Chapter 4. The pickaxe hits the soil
1960 – Start of the expedition
1961 – A difficult but successful excavation season
1962 – An intermediate season
1964 – Excavation of the temple
1967 – A new start

Chapter 5. The story of the inhabitants
Farmers in the Chalcolithic period
Trade in the Middle Bronze Age
Life around the Late Bronze Age temple
Bronze smiths in the Early Iron Age
A village on the crossroads
Mourning on the tell

Epilogue

 

 
 

 

Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies

Edited by Julia Katharina Koch & Wiebke Kirleis

In which chronological, spatial, and social contexts is gender a relevant social category that is noticeable in the archaeological material? How can transformations in social gender relations and identity be recognized archaeologically? Is the identity of prehistoric people defined by gender? If so, what is the accompanying cultural context? What about gender equality among the scientists working in archaeology? In what degree are research teams, as well as their scientific approaches, biased today?

These and other burning questions are intensively discussed in this volume, which comprises 25 contributions presented at the international workshop ‘Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies’, organised by the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 of Kiel University funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The workshop offered a platform to discuss a broad range of approaches on the inter-dependencies between gender relations and socio-environmental transformation processes.
Beyond a focus on the archaeology of women, gender archaeology offers a variety of possibilities to reconstruct the contribution of social groups differentiated e.g. by age, gender, and activities related to cultural transformation, based on the archaeological material. Thus, this volume includes papers dealing with different socio-economic units, from south-western Europe to Central Asia, between 15,000 and 1 BCE, paying particular attention to the scale of social reach. Since gender archaeology, and in particular feminist archaeology, also addresses the issue of scientific objectivity or bias, parts of this volume are dedicated to equal opportunity matters in archaeological academia across the globe. This is realised by bringing together feminist and female experiences from a range of countries, each with its own specific individual, cultural, and social perspectives and traditions.

The papers are organised along three central topics: ‘Gendering fieldwork’, ‘Tracing gender transformations’, and ‘Gendering and shaping the environment’. By gendering the archaeological discussion on transformation processes, the contributions aim to more firmly embed gender-sensitive research in the archaeological agenda, not just in Europe, but world-wide.

Paperback ISBN: 9789088908217 | Hardback ISBN: 9789088908224 | Imprint: Sidestone Press Academics | Format: 210x280mm | 502 pp. | Scales of Transformation 06 | Series: Scales of Transformation | Language: English | 114 illus. (bw) | 58 illus. (fc) | Keywords: academic fieldwork; gender archaeology; social archaeology; environmental archaeology; history of archaeology; Mesolithic; Neolithic; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Europe; South-west Asia; Central Asia 

Preface of the editors
Wiebke Kirleis and Johannes Müller

Introduction
Julia Katharina Koch and Wiebke Kirleis

1. Gendering Fieldwork

Matters of gender in a prominent excavation by the German Archaeological Institute: Fieldwork and gender in the Kerameikos in Athens
Jutta Stroszeck

Women in the field: Preliminary insights from images of archaeology in Portugal in the 1960s and the 1970s. A first essay
Ana Cristina Martins

Gendered and diversified fieldwork classes in prehistoric archaeology? An examination of and a perspective on Bachelor study programs of German universities
Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann

‘Fieldwork is not the proper preserve of a lady’: Gendered images of archaeologists from textbooks to social media
Jana Esther Fries

2. Tracing gender transformations
2.1. In methodology

What is gender transformation, where does it take place and why? Reflections from archaeology
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

Osteology defines sex and archaeology defines gender? Insights from physical anthropology
Johanna Kranzbühler

Gender in Linearbandkeramik research: Traditional approaches and new avenues
Nils Müller-Scheeßel

2.2. In burials

Changing gender perception from the Mesolithic to the beginning of the Middle Neolithic
Daniela Nordholz

Making the invisible visible: Expressing gender in mortuary practices in north-eastern Hungary in the 5th millennium BCE
Alexandra Anders and Emese Gyöngyvér Nagy

Copper Age transformations in gender identities
Jan Turek

Gender symbolism in female graves of the Bronze Age evidenced by the materials from the Lisakovsk burial complex of the Andronovo cultural horizon
Emma R. Usmanova and Marina K. Lachkova

Male gender identity during the Ural Bronze Age: On the way down?
Natalie Berseneva

Transformations in a woman’s life in prehistoric and archaic societies of the Scythians and the Kalmyks
Maria Ochir-Goryaeva

Tracing gender in funerary data: The case study of elite graves in the North-Alpine complex (Late Bronze Age to La Tène B)
Caroline Tremeaud

2.3. In cultural landscapes

Social manipulation of gender identities in Early Iron Age Latium Vetus (Italy)
Ilona Venderbos

Time- and space-related genders and changing social roles: A case study from Archaic southern Italy
Christian Heitz

2.4. In ritual and art

‘Shaman’ burials in prehistoric Europe: Gendered images?
Nataliia Mykhailova

Part-time females and full-time specialists? Identifying gender roles in ritual behaviour and archaeological remains
Andy Reymann

Beyond gender: Approaches to anthropomorphic imagery in prehistoric central Anatolia
Aysel Arslan

Art and gender: The case study of enamelling in continental Europe (4th-3rd century BCE)
Virginie Defente

3. Gendering and shaping the environment

Gender and the environment
Julia K. Koch and Oliver Nakoinz

The gender division of labour during the proto-Elamite period in late 4th millennium Iran
Rouhollah Yousefi Zoshk, Saeed Baghizadeh and Donya Etemadifar

Labour organisation between horticulture and agriculture: Two separate worlds?
Wiebke Kirleis

Change and continuity: Gender and flint knapping activities during the Neolithic in the Paris basin
Anne Augereau

The construction of space and gender in prehistory: An approach to the Chalcolithic walled enclosures of Iberia?
Ana M. Vale

 

 
 

 

 

Open Access Journal: Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine (BAM)

E-ISSN : 2820-6908 
ISSN Print : 0068-4015
Le Bulletin d’Archéologie Marocaine (BAM) est une revue annuelle spécialisée en archéologie et en sciences du patrimoine, y compris l’archéométrie et l’anthropologie. Publiée à partir de 1956 par le Service des Antiquités, elle passe sous la coupole de l’Institut national des sciences de l’archéologie et du patrimoine en 1987.
Le BAM comprend les rubriques suivantes : articles, notes, documents, chroniques de fouilles et comptes rendus d’ouvrages. Les contributions sont rédigées en arabe, en français, en anglais ou en espagnol.
Le BAM est une revue gratuite et en libre accès depuis 2020.

Vol. 27 (2022)

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Editorial
Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer
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Articles

Rosalia Gallotti, Abderrahim Mohib, David Lefèvre, Jean-Paul Raynal
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Robert Sala-Ramos, Hassan Aouraghe, Hamid Haddoumi, Juan-Ignacio Morales, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo, Carlos Tornero, Aïcha Oujaa, María Soto, Mourad Farkouch, El Mahdi Aissa, Abderrahmane El Atmani, Mathieu Duval, Lee Arnold, Martina Demuro, Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Pedro Piñero, Florent Rivals, Francesc Burjachs, Andoni Tarriño, Claudia Álvarez-Posada, Mohamed Souhir, Palmira Saladié, Sila Pla-Pueyo, Juan Cruz Larrasoaña, Steffen Mischke, Juan Marín, Elena Moreno-Ribas, Arturo De Lombera-Hermida, Raül Bartrolí, Diego Lombao, Gala García-Argudo, Iván Ramírez, Celia Díez-Canseco, Sonja Tomasso, Isabel Expósito, Ethel Allué, Noureddine Hajji, Hicham Mhamdi, Hind Rhosne, Ángel Carrancho, Juan José Villalaín, Jan van der Made, Antoni Canals, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Jordi Agustí, Josep María Parés, M. Gema Chacón
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Saïd Hinaje, Lahcen Gourari
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Marcel Otte
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69-81
Yasmina Chaïd Saoudi, Kahina Roumane-Amri, Abdelkader Chaïd, Thomas Perrin, Walid Azzoug, Badredine Sitouah, Saïda Kasri, Sylia Sehila, Mustapha Meghraoui
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83-101
Lenka Varadzinová, Ladislav Varadzin, Petra Brukner Havelková, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Elena A. A. Garcea
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103-120
Sergio Almisas Cruz, Mohamed Souhir, Hassan Aouraghe
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121-141
Yasmina Damouche, Hayette Berkani, Iddir Amara
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143-172
Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
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173-190
Michel Barbaza, Mohssine El Graoui
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191-213
Yves Gauthier
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215-249
Laurent Auclair, Abdelhadi Ewague, Benoît Hoarau
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251-273
Samia Ait Ali Yahia
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Matilde Arnay, Jared Carballo, Efraín Marrero, Alejandra C. Ordóñez, Rosa Fregel, Paloma Vidal, Hacomar Ruiz, Ithaisa Abreu, Sergio Pou, Jacob Morales, Carlos García, Alberto Lacave, Elías Sánchez, Emilio González
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Ramón Cebrián-Guimerá, Mª del Carmen del-Arco-Aguilar, Mercedes del-Arco-Aguilar
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Hanen Dagdoug, Mohamed Raouf Karray, Eric Fouache
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Wafa Ben Dhia-Belhouchet
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Charles N´zi Dibié
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347-358
Inga Merkyte, Søren Albek
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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Open Access Journal: Κριτικές Μελέτες για την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά - Critical Studies in Cultural Heritage

ISSN: 2944-9839
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Οι Κριτικές Μελέτες για την Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά είναι διεπιστημονικό περιοδικό ανοιχτής πρόσβασης με αξιολόγηση και απευθύνεται σε ερευνητές και επαγγελματίες της διαχείρισης της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς.

Στόχος του περιοδικού είναι η δημοσίευση πρωτότυπων μελετών από το ευρύτερο πεδίο των σπουδών στην πολιτιστική κληρονομιά. Οι Μελέτες ενθαρρύνουν τον διάλογο σχετικά με το περιεχόμενο (εντοπισμός, ταύτιση, ερμηνεία, αξιολόγηση νοηματοδότηση κ.ά.) αλλά και το πλαίσιο (νομοθεσία, διοίκηση, οικονομία, τοπικές κοινωνίες, τόπος, χώρος, μνήμη, ταυτότητα, τοπία κ.ά.) της διαχείρισης της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς στη θεωρία και την πράξη.

Critical Studies in Cultural Heritage is an interdisciplinary peer reviewed and open access journal addressed to researchers and professionals in cultural heritage management.

The aim of the journal is to publish original research from the broad spectrum of studies in cultural heritage. CSCH encourage conversations regarding the content (location, identification, interpretation, values assessment, meaning etc.) but also the context (legislation, management, economics, local communities, location, space, memory, identity, landscapes etc.) of cultural heritage management in theory and in practice.

 

 



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AMAR Migration

"These digital collections of cultural heritage are currently undergoing changes. All resources are now available in our new repository platform under the collection title, “CDM Migration.” Check the Libraries' digital projects page for the most up-to-date information"

AMAR is mgrating to Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR) [586]

 

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Barbarian Europe

Modzelewski, Karol
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European culture has been greatly influenced by the Christian Church and Greek and Roman culture. However, the peoples of Europe’s remote past, whom the Greeks, Romans, and their medieval heirs called the «barbarians», also left their mark. Closely examining ancient and medieval narratives and the codifications of laws, this thoughtfully conducted comparative study sheds light on the illiterate societies of the early Germanic and Slavic peoples. The picture that emerges is one of communities built on kinship, neighborly, and tribal relations, where decision making, judgement, and punishment were carried out collectively, and the distinction between the sacred and profane was unknown.
Keywords
Barbares; Barbarian; Barbarian collectivism; Barbarian society; Europe; Flammarion; laeti; L'Europe; Modzelewski; mundium; slaves
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-04127-9
ISBN
9783653041279, 9783653985320, 9783653985337, 9783631649800, 9783653041279
Publisher website
https://www.peterlang.com/
Publication date and place
Bern, 2015
Pages
414

 

Shaping Cultural Landscapes: Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies

Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen

Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the papers in this volume investigate through a wide range of contexts how past people achieved their multiple daily tasks while remaining resilient in anticipation of adverse events and periods.

Each paper investigates the resource requirements of combined activities, from conducting agriculture or trade, over many different crafts, constructing houses and monumental buildings, and how the available resources were employed successfully. Multilayered data sets are employed to illuminate the many interconnected networks of humans and resources that impacted on people’s day-to-day activities, but also to discuss the economic, cultural and socio-political relationships over time in different regions.

Each of us aimed to discuss novel perspectives in which the landscape in its widest sense is connected to interdisciplinary architectural and/or crafting perspectives. Rural landscapes and their populace formed the backbone of pre-industrial societies. Analyses of the rural ‘hinterland’, the foci of cities and other central places (often with monumental architecture) and the communication between these are essential for the papers of this volume. These different agents and phenomena and their connections are crucial to our understanding how political units functioned at several socially interconnected levels.

Bottom-up approaches can dissolve “monolithic” understandings of societies, the elite-labour/farmer and the centre/rural dichotomies, because the many social groups co-depended on each other, albeit perhaps in unequal measure depending on the given context.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464260953 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464260960 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 210x280mm | 298 pp. | Language: English | 78 illus. (bw) | 65 illus. (fc) | Keywords: Cultural landscapes; labour cost studies; resilience strategies; human-environment interaction; towns and hinterlands; funerary landscapes; islandscapes; productive landscapes; cross-craft approaches; carrying capacity; community work

Shaping Cultural Landscapes through Crafts, Construction, Infrastructure, Agriculture and Resilience Strategies Introduction to the papers
Ann Brysbaert, Jari Pakkanen and Irene Vikatou

The Life of the Marble Mountain: Agency and Ecology in the Marble Quarries of Ancient Tegea, Greece
Jørgen Bakke

Building the tholos tomb in Tiryns, Greece: comparative labour costs and field methods
Ann Brysbaert, Daniel Turner and Irene Vikatou

Mobility as a drive to shape cultural landscapes: prehistoric route-use in the Argolid and surroundings, Greece
Ann Brysbaert and Irene Vikatou

Tracing the Mycenaean hinterlands. Refining the models of Mycenaean territoriality with insights from the cadastral maps of the Second Venetian Rule in the Peloponnese, Greece
Kalliopi Efkleidou

Climate, carrying capacity and society: the quest for universal truths
Paul Erdkamp

Encompassing islandscapes in southern Vanuatu
James L. Flexner, Stuart Bedford and Frederique Valentin

After the Preclassic Collapse. A socio-environmental contextualization of the rise of Naachtun, Guatemala
Julien Hiquet, Cyril Castanet, Lydie Dussol, Philippe Nondédéo, Marc Testé, Louise Purdue, Noémie Tomadini, Sandrine Grouard and Antoine Dorison

Placing the houses of the dead: the spatial setting of Mycenaean necropoleis in the Argive Plain, Greece
Stefan Müller

Marble in the mountains – econometrics of quarrying and transporting building stones for the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, Greece
Jari Pakkanen

Shaping a Mycenaean cultural landscape at Kalamianos, Greece
Daniel Pullen

Time spent at the Heuneburg, Germany, between 600 and 540 BCE to build all their constructions
François Remise

The agricultural hinterland of Aquincum and Brigetio, Hungary. Landscape, rural settlements, towns and their interactions
Bence Simon

Classical and Hellenistic pottery kilns from Greek rural areas in their natural and human landscape
Francesca Tomei

Towns in a sea of nomads: territory and trade in Central Somaliland during the Medieval period
Jorge de Torres Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal, Manuel Antonio Franco Fernández, Candela Martínez Barrio and Pablo Gutiérrez de León Juberías

A cross-craft approach to ceramic, glass and iron in the Early Middle Ages. The resources of workshops from southern Belgium
Line Van Wersch, Martine van Haperen and Gaspard Pagès

Did ancient building contractors work for free? Stone supply in fourth-century BCE Epidauros, Greece
Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant

 

 
 

 

Friday, February 24, 2023

Byblos. 's Werelds oudste havenstad

David Kertai met bijdragen van Jona Lendering

Byblos vertelt het bijzondere verhaal van een Libanese havenstad. Een epos dat ruim 8500 jaar geleden begint met een hoofdrol voor zeevaarders en handelslieden, koningen en farao’s, helden en gelukszoekers. Hun verhalen zijn onlosmakelijk verbonden met de legendarische cederbomen, die in het Libanongebergte achter Byblos groeien.

De Libanese ceder verwierf van Egypte tot Mesopotamië een mythische status. De boom wordt wel 40 meter hoog. Het hout is relatief licht en krimpt nauwelijks, is uitstekend tegen rot bestand en eenvoudig te bewerken tot schepen, dakbalken en grafkisten. De bergen ten oosten van Byblos, waarvan de toppen tussen de 2500 en 3000 meter hoog zijn, behoren tot de zuidelijkste gebieden waar de grote cederbomen groeien.

Vanaf 3200 v.Chr. is Byblos bijna 2000 jaar lang de belangrijkste havenstad van het Middellandse Zeegebied. Deze status dankt het aan de unieke relatie die de stad opbouwt met de farao’s van Egypte. Byblos is de ideale toegangspoort tot de rijkdommen van de cederbossen en scharnierpunt tussen het Midden-Oosten en Egypte. De zoektocht naar hout geeft de geschiedenis van Byblos een beslissende wending, wat op zijn beurt een bepalende invloed heeft op de geschiedenis van de Middellandse Zee. Er ontstaat een regio waarin kooplieden en andere reizigers goederen en ideeën uitwisselen.

In dit boek komen deze verhalen over beginnende zeevaart, handel, religie en diplomatie samen. Het boek eindigt in de Romeinse tijd als Byblos uitgroeit tot een ‘heilige plek’ en bedevaartsoord. In latere eeuwen verliezen de oude verhalen hun kracht en ontstaan nieuwe religies, mythen en identiteiten.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464261370 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 210x280mm | 152 pp. | Language: Dutch | 14 illus. (bw) | 148 illus. (fc) | Keywords: Byblos; Libanon; Levantijnse geschiedenis; archeologie; Fenicië 

Voorwoord Sarkis El Khoury en Wim Weijland
Inleiding Een plaatsbepaling en een puzzel

Hoofdstuk 1 Het begin
Hoofdstuk 2 De Byblosschepen varen uit
Hoofdstuk 3 Byblos wordt een stad
Hoofdstuk 4 Byblos en Egypte
Hoofdstuk 5 Byblos en Mesopotamië
Hoofdstuk 6 De Dame van Byblos en haar land
Hoofdstuk 7 Rijkdom en diplomatie
Hoofdstuk 8 De koning en de elite
Hoofdstuk 9 Archeologie van een vergeten religie
Hoofdstuk 10 Tussen twee supermachten
Hoofdstuk 11 Brons en ijzer
Hoofdstuk 12 De eerste wereldrijken
Hoofdstuk 13 Een nieuwe, oude stad

Epiloog ’s Werelds oudste havenstad

Tijdtabel Byblos
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The Basketry from the Tomb of Tutankhamun: Catalogue and Analysis

André J. Veldmeijer & Salima Ikram. With a contribution by Lucy Kubiak-Martens 

The tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor (Egypt) by Howard Carted, yielded over 5000 items. Among the vast number of richly embellished precious objects, such as the solid gold coffin and mask, were also more mundane objects, including the hitherto unpublished basketry objects. Baskets, the ‘plastic bags’ of the ancient world, were used for storage of all sorts of things, including food, clothing and jewellery, and many that were found in the tomb retained their original contents.

The present work describes and illustrates the basketry and basketry boxes from the tomb in detail, giving attention to the technology, material, shape, decoration, as well as their contents. The analysis contextualises the basketry in a wider framework, comparing it with other examples and the visual record, with regard to the technology used to make them and their uses.

The book will be of interest for those interested in basketry, ancient technology, daily life and burial customs in ancient Egypt and is written for a wide audience.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464260922 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464260939 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 210x280mm | 364 pp. | Language: English | 150 illus. (bw) | 1000 illus. (fc) | Keywords: ancient Egypt; Tutankhamun; Yuya and Tjuiu; basketry; boxes; palm; grass; rush; papyrus; wig; container; grave goods

Preface

1. Introduction
1.1. Tutankhamun’s Tomb: Contextualising the Basketry
1.2. The Post-Excavation Peregrinations of the Baskets and Numbering Issues

2. A Basket’s Life
2.1 Baskets, Boxes, and Bottles: Shapes and Sizes
2.2 The Uses and Roles of Baskets

3. Tutankhamun’s Baskets

4. Uncoiled: How to Study Baskets

5. Repairing the Wear & Tear: Conservation and Restoration

6. What Makes a Basket: Basketry Technology
6.1. Materials
6.1.1. Introduction
6.1.2. Identification of Materials (by Lucy Kubiak-Martens)
6.2. Manufacturing Coiled Basketry
6.2.1. Introduction
6.2.2. Stitches
6.2.3. Start and Finish of a Basket and Lid
6.2.4. Decorating Basketry
6.3. Manufacturing Basketry Boxes

7. No Eggs in These Baskets: the Contents of the King’s Baskets
7.1. Introduction
7.2 Nuts and Berries: A Healthy Diet

8. Beyond Tutankhamun’s Tomb: Comparative Basketry

9. Discussion and Conclusions

Appendix I

I.1 Examined Material from the Tomb
I.2 Carter’s Descriptions
I.3 Tutankhamun’s Basketry Boxes
I.4 Comparanda

Appendix II
II.1 Tables
II. 2 Concordance

Glossary
Bibliography

 

 
 

 

Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping

Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and for what reasons? This volume aims to showcase a number of illustrative examples, and thus to provide a deeper understanding of twenty-first-century reception of Antiquity.

After a general introduction in Part I, the volume focuses on two main fields: controversies referencing ancient and modern literary works; and controversies surrounding heritage ethics.

Part II takes literary evidence from the USA to Italy as its starting point: it shows how metaphors about early Christianity find their way into American conservative discourse; how Sparta is evoked in right-wing thinking in the USA, Germany, France and Scandinavia; and how Aeneas plays a role in recent Italian debates on migrations. The last paper discusses the depiction of classicists in modern novels.

Part III focuses on heritage ethics and material culture, in first instance taking practices at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) – on the display of death, queering and orientalism – as case studies. The last paper delves into the history of the Via Belgica to show how antiquity has been weaponised for political aims for many centuries.

Together, these papers show that academics should engage with the receptions of antiquity in the recent past and present. If they want their research and museum displays to be part of current reception, they should make their voice heard.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464270365 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464270372 | Imprint: Sidestone Press Academics | Format: 173x253mm | 234 pp. | Language: English | 0 illus. (bw) | 7 illus. (fc) | Keywords: antiquity; reception; politics; heritage ethics; museum studies; Sparta; museum of antiquities; queering conservatism; alt-right

Part I: Introduction

Preface
Kim Beerden

1. Introduction: Stop the Steal!
Frederick G. Naerebout

Part II: Controversies and Literary Traditions

2. Whose persecution? Early Christianity as a Metaphor in Contemporary American Political Discourse
K.P.S. (Renske) Janssen

3. Spartans on the Capitol: Recent Far-Right Appropriations of Spartan Militarism in the USA and their Historical Roots
Stephen Hodkinson

4. Leonidas Goes North: Swedish Appropriations of Sparta and the Battle of Thermopylae and their Wider European Context
Johannes Siapkas and Thomas Sjösvärd

5. Pop Culture against Modernity: New Right-Wing Movements and the Reception of Sparta
Julia Müller

6. Fato Profugus. Aeneas the Refugee: an Italian Debate
Marco Gay

7. The Classicist as a Literary Character in Contemporary Literature: the Depiction of a Discipline
Barbara Holler

Part III: Controversies and Heritage Ethics

8. Ancient Death and the Contemporary World: the Role of Graeco-Roman Death in Museum Display
Patricia Kret

9. Queering the National Museum of Antiquities
Suus van den Berg

10. Dummie de Mummie: an Egyptian Body as the Undead, Oriental Other
Daniel Soliman

11. Who Owns the Road to the Roman Past? The Case of the Via Vipsania aka the chaussée romaine, the Römerstrasse, the Romeinse kassei, aka the Via Belgica
Liesbeth Claes

 

Revealing Christian Heritage: The rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860 and 1930. Volume I

Edited by Chiara Cecalupo

This volume collects different case studies of rediscovery of Christian antiquities between 1860-1930 in Europe and the Mediterranean basin, in order to stimulate reflections about the impact of these rediscoveries on our culture in a period of great political transition.

By turning the light on lesser-known stories on a wider European and Mediterranean horizon (Greece, Holy Land, Eritrea, Malta, Norway), this book gives a strong contribution to the history of Christian archaeology. All articles deal with many topics of the field (museology, cultural heritage protection law, history of religious orders, field archaeology, military explorations), and therefore offer a strong interdisciplinary cut.

This book is first product of the international online workshop series “Revealing Christian Heritage. Talks on the rediscovery of Christian archaeology between 1860-1930”.

Paperback ISBN: 9789464261578 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464261585 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 173x253mm | 98 pp. | Language: English | 15 illus. (bw) | 5 illus. (fc) | Keywords: Christian archaeology; museums; rediscovery; researches; 1860-1930; Europe; Mediterranean

Introduction
Mirella Romero Recio

A Brief History of Christian Archaeology between 1860 and 1930
Chiara Cecalupo

Byzantine Artefacts versus Classical Antiquities: Questioning the early Heritage Protection in Greece
Chiara Mannoni

Christian excavations in the Holy Land. The first explorations and the establishment of Archaeological Schools
Davide Bianchi

On Behalf of Her Majesty. Unveiling the Early Christian Heritage of the Aksumite Kingdom (Horn of Africa) in the 19th -20th Centuries
Marco Ciliberti, Gabriele Castiglia

Maltese Catacomb Study in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: A Historiographical Analysis
Rebecca Xerri

Medieval Church Art and Nation Building in Norway during the Nineteenth Century
Justin Kroesen

Discussion

 

 
 

 

Thursday, February 23, 2023

The Rootcutter : The Rootcutter Gathers from the Environment and Slices into Rootstock

 

The idea for The Rootcutter came about during the early months of the pandemic, when the Society for Ancient Medicine committee members were, like everyone else, stuck inside our homes, wondering how the world would be transformed by COVID-19. Like Bayo Akomolafe in his essay I, Coronavirus, we wondered whether and how the social, economic, and political structures of the modern world would be altered, recast, or reinforced through the changes wrought not only by the virus itself but also by our efforts to halt its spread. As historians of medicine, our first impulse was to reflect on how our training and knowledge base might help us through such a global health crisis, and what frameworks of understanding might render our expertise in ancient medicine and pharmacology useful for wider audiences. As we grappled with big questions and great uncertainty, we found that building community around these reflections was a useful salve.

The Rootcutter is one result. Over the next 12 months, we will publish a series of essays by experts in various aspects of our field, each focusing on a specific piece of evidence for the study of ancient medicine (for example, an ostracon, a recipe, and in one case even a city) and exploring how close investigation of that evidence might enable us to reflect more critically on the ways that ancient medicine informs modern practices and ideas. Each essay will include some key bibliography and a set of questions intended to prompt further reflection and, where relevant, classroom discussion.

 

The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads: Technology, Chronology and Exchange

Dussubieux, Laure, and Heather Walder, eds. 
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Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461664655

Ancient glass beads as a window to the ancient world</b></p><p>Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry, from a single analytical laboratory, providing a uniquely comparative data set. The geographic range includes studies of beads produced in Europe and traded widely across North America and beads from South and Southeast Asia traded around the Indian Ocean and beyond. The contributors provide new insight on the timing of interregional interactions, technologies of bead production and patterns of trade and exchange, using glass beads as a window to the past.</p><p>This volume will be a key reference for glass researchers, archaeologists, and any scholars interested in material culture and exchange; it provides a wide range of case studies in the investigation and interpretation of glass bead composition, production and exchange since ancient times.</p><p>Contributors: Bernard Gratuze (Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, Centre Ernest-Babelon, UMR 5060 CNRS/Université d'Orléans), Alicia L. Hawkins (University of Toronto Mississauga), Elliot H. Blair (University of Alabama), Jessica Dalton-Carriger (Roane State Community College), Lee M. Panich (Santa Clara University), Thomas R. Fenn (The University of Oklahoma), Alison K. Carter (University of Oregon), Jennifer Craig (McGill University), Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced), Mudit Trivedi (Stanford University), Lindsey Trombetta (The University of Texas at Austin), Jonathan R. Walz (The Field Museum / SIT-Graduate Institute), Akshay Sarathi (Florida Atlantic University), Carla Klehm (University of Arkansas), Marilee Wood (University of the Witwatersrand), Katherine A. Larson (Corning Museum of Glass), Heather Walder (The Field Museum / University of Wisconsin – La Crosse), Laure Dussubieux (The Field Museum)</p><p><a href="https://lup.be/pages/online-material-the-elemental-analysis-of-glass-beads">Supplementary Material 'The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads' &gt;</a> </p><p>Ebook available in Open Access.<br>This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).