A general group for archaeologists and those interested in archaeology.
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited All Italia: City and Country in Ancient Italy in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
This graduate seminar approaches the urban and rural landscapes of peninsular Italy from the Early Iron Age until the Gothic Wars, with the goal being to examine key points of intersection (and departure) between the spheres of ‘town’ and ‘country’. In adopting an holistic approach to these categories that are often juxtaposed, the seminar…[Read more]
Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Troy and the Trojan War: the archaeology of an epic in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Troy has long captured the human imagination. The story of its fall and the tales of both its inhabitants and besiegers have caught the attention of artists and their audiences from antiquity to post-modernity. It seems we are drawn to the struggle that is Troy and the Trojan War, to the paragons of virtue, and the archetypes of other, less noble…[Read more]
Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited King Darius’ Red Sea Canal in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
The Persian King Darius I (reigned 522-486 BCE) constructed a canal connecting the Nile to the Red Sea – an ancient precursor to the Suez Canal that made it possible to sail from Egypt to Persia, and to places in between.
Jean Marie Carey deposited Invitation for Catalogue Contribution: Eden and Everything After in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
In a groundbreaking endeavour to triangulate three important traditions of our collective cultural heritage, the Arkeologisk Museum of the University of Stavanger presents Eden and Everything After, a conceptual exhibition organised around notions of the loss of – and slim hope of reconnection with – the lost paradise. Mirroring the boldly exp…[Read more]
Marek Kryda deposited The Viking Age Amulet Box with the Goats of the God Thor from Biskupin, Poland in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Poland has been recognized as important in the widespread migration of the Vikings, yet subject to little theoretical inquiry. I became particularly interested in the ways in which the Vikings in Poland understood and negotiated their world. To my knowledge, nobody has drawn together the pan-European evidence about the image of the two mythical…[Read more]
Marco De Pietri deposited I frammenti di mummy cover dell’Egyptian corner dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago
The paper presents for the first time to the public some wooden fragments of an ancient Egyptian ‘mummy cover’, kept in the ‘Egyptian Corner’ of the University of Pavia Archaeology Museum (Italy). The fragments, belonging to an original ancient Egyptian artefact which dates back to the end of the New Kingdom, are here published after a restora…[Read more]
Justin Walsh deposited Visual Displays in Space Station Culture: An Archeological Analysis in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
We offer an archaeological analysis of the visual display of “space heroes” and Orthodox icons in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS). This study is the first systematic investigation of material culture at a site in space. The ISS has now been continuously inhabited for 20 years. Here, focusing on the period 200…[Read more]
Ben Newbound deposited Geoglyphs in the UK in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 months, 4 weeks ago
A 12-page paper illustrating the likely presence, in geoglyph form, of a probably long-established cult art form in the UK, as elsewhere.
Justin Walsh deposited New approaches to habitability: the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
The aim of space archaeology is to understand the interaction of technology and human behaviour in off-Earth environments. This paper presents the methodology and results of the first archaeological study focused on human habitation in outer space. The International Space Station (ISS) is the only extant, continuously-occupied location in space,…[Read more]
Justin Walsh deposited A method for space archaeology research: the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
Space archaeology is defined as the study of “the material culture relevant to space exploration that is found on Earth and in outer space (i.e., exoatmospheric material) and that is clearly the result of human behavior” (Gorman & O’Leary 2013: 409). The aim of space archaeology is to understand the interaction of technology and human behav…[Read more]
Andrea Sinclair deposited Iconographic Entanglement in New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Rhetoric: Was the ‘International Style’ a Nuanced Form of Visual Rhetoric for an Old Office? in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Late Bronze Age is renowned for heightened interregional interaction in the entire Near East and Eastern Mediterranean as wealthy states like Egypt and Hatti jostled with each other in the pursuit of valuable commodities, technologies and materials. This increased political and economic interaction is credited in relatively recent scholarship…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.
Stefanie Samida deposited Über Interdisziplinarität: Betrachtungen zur Kooperation von Natur- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Archäologie in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This article discusses major issues of interdisciplinary research. In the introduction, the concepts of ›disciplinarity‹, ›multidisciplinarity‹, ›interdisciplinarity‹ and ›transdisciplinarity‹ are being explicated. This is followed by a comparative treatment of experiences with designing and practicing interdisciplinarity in various fields…[Read more]
Dimitri Nakassis deposited Why the periphery should be central to Mycenaean studies in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks ago
In this paper I outline some of empirical and theoretical problems associated with the dividing Mycenaean Greece into a core and a periphery. The periphery has traditionally been defined in contrast to a homogeneous palatial core, but recent research has shown that this homogeneity is illusory. I suggest, following Knappett’s discussion of M…[Read more]
Lloyd Graham deposited Consanguineous unions in the archaeology and mythology of the Neolithic passage-tomb at Newgrange, Ireland in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
A recent genetic study has revealed that the adult male buried in the most elaborate recess of the Neolithic passage-tomb at Newgrange was the child of a first-degree incestuous union, suggesting that the complex was built as a burial monument for an endogamous family elite who may have been regarded as “god-kings.” The present paper shows how clo…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
A short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.
Dimitri Nakassis deposited The Extractive Systems of the Mycenaean World in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months ago
This chapter surveys the means by which the Late Bronze Age polities of Mycenaean Greece acquired goods and services, with a focus on regular extractive transactions.
Julia Mattes deposited Neolithische Kunst der zirkumpolaren Jäger und Sammler Die Figuren der Grübchenkeramischen Kultur und ihre Deutung in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The neolithic figurines of North – and North-East Europe, belonging to Pitted Ware culture and Pit-Comb Ware culture, are a desideratum to research. These pretty creations, often sculptures of human and animals such as bears, moose, seals, wild-horse, domestic animals and fantastic four-limped beings are spatially distributed over the Baltic R…[Read more]
Anna P. Judson deposited Two new Linear B tablets and an enigmatic find from Bronze Age Pylos (Palace of Nestor) in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This article presents two newly-discovered fragments of Linear B tablets from recent excavations at the site of Ano Englianos, Bronze Age Pylos, along
with a third possibly inscribed object.The final publication is available at http://www.degruyter.com.
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