A group for HCommons members interested in Classical archaeology.
Erin Averett deposited “Playing the Part: Masks and Ritual Performance in Rural Sanctuaries in Iron Age Cyprus,” in The Physicality of the Other. Masks from the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by A. Berlejung and J. Filitz. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 27. RA. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 305-37. in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 months agoThis volume comprises the conference proceedings of the international and interdisciplinary meeting held in Leipzig from November 9 to 11, 2015. Scholars from different research areas present masks from Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Greece, mainly from the third to the first millennium BCE. The masks are…[Read more]
Justin Walsh deposited Contextualizing Greek Pottery at Hallstatt Sites in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoSeventeen years ago, Brian Shefton wrote, “the distribution pattern of the Greek imports for the Hallstatt period has crystallized a number of years ago and is unlikely to be greatly modified in the future except on point of detail” (Böhr and Shefton 2000, 28). Indeed, publications describing Greek pottery have reached similar conclusions: Gree…[Read more]
Henry Colburn deposited Gemelli Careri’s Description of Persepolis in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoThis article examines the description of Persepolis, one of the capital cities of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE), by Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651–1725) in his illustrated travelogue Giro del mondo (1699–1700). Gemelli Careri’s extensive description of the site—some twenty pages of text accompanied by two plates en…[Read more]
Dominik Hagmann deposited Roman Rural Landscapes in Noricum: Archäologische Untersuchungen zur römischen Besiedlung im Hinterland Nord-Noricums in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoDer Artikel behandelt das Dissertationsprojekt des Autors, welches die archäologischen Besiedlungsaktivitäten in einem genau definierten Untersuchungsgebiet im nördlichen (heute niederösterreichischen) Hinterland der ehemaligen römischen Provinz Noricum behandelt.
Meredith Warren deposited Line Drawing — Eurymedon Vase in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoLine drawing of the Eurymedon Vase (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg)
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Henry Colburn deposited Roman collecting and the biographies of Egyptian Late Period statues in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year agoStudies of Egyptian Late Period statuary often assume that the extant corpus is a representative sample of the artistic output of the Twenty-Sixth to Thirty-First Dynasties (c. 664–332 BCE). This assumption ignores the various human processes that affect the survival of statues after their initial dedication. In particular, the Roman practice of c…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited A Perfunctory and Highly Subjective Guide to the Classical Archaeology Job Market in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year agoAs the 2017-18 academic job cycle came to an end I found myself, for the first time in five years, in the enviable position of not having to resume my search for employment again in the fall, thanks to a two-year position at a very eminent institution. This good fortune has prompted me to compile my reflections on the classical archaeology job…[Read more]
Sarah Middle deposited Identifying research methods for the use and production of Linked Ancient World Data in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoThis poster presents findings from a recent survey of Ancient World researchers, which sought to identify research methods associated with the use and production of digital resources in general and with Linked Data in particular. It illustrates the results of the survey using graphs and charts, accompanied by a brief explanation of the methodology…[Read more]
Francesco Iacono deposited Westernizing Aegean of LH IIIC in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoStudy on the role played by material characterised by ‘western’ features in the late palatial and post palatial Aegean
Alaya Palamidis deposited La fonction des niches dans les bibliothèques romaines in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoIn the libraries of Celsus at Ephesus and of Rogatianus at Timgad, the function of which is attested by inscriptions, bookcases are usually reconstructed in the niches. These examples have been used to identify other buildings which contained niches as libraries. However, Lora Johnson, in her 1984 Ph.D. thesis, rightfully questioned such an…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Hand-drawn Iudaea Capta coin in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoHand-drawn illustration of a ‘Iudaea Capta’ coin, after LIMC ‘IUDAEA’ 14 (and BMCRE 117)
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Experimentalarchäologische Untersuchungen zu römischem Getreidebrei – Bericht zur methodischen Vorgehensweisedes ersten Laborexperiments „LNF2012“ in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThis report presents preliminary results of experimental archaeological investigations on the reproduction of the Roman porridge puls. The archaeological experiment “LNF2012” was performed under laboratory conditions as part of the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” 2012 on April 27, at the Department of Classical Archaeology of the University of Vie…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited Early Coinage in Egypt in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoThis is a combined museum catalogue entry discussing coins from ancient Egypt.
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Überlegungen zur Nutzung von PHAIDRA als Repositorium für digitale archäologische Daten in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoIm Allgemeinen sind archäologische Daten durch eine Vielzahl an Datentypen und Dateiformaten geprägt, die unterschiedliche Inhalte speichern. Hier spannt sich der Bogen etwa von Texten und tabellarisch erfassten quantitativen Daten über Objektfotografien bis hin zu Vektorgrafiken sowie den immer beliebteren 3D-Modellen. Diese ausgeprägte Div…[Read more]
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Terminologie und Taxonomie Digitaler Archäologie in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoAus der Integration von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) mit dem vielfältigen Fach »Archäologie« (vgl. Daly – Evans 2006) resultiert ein Studienfeld, das sich eingehend mit einem umfangreichen Pool unterschiedlicher Aspekte der IKT in der Archäologie auf theoretischer und praktischer Ebene beschäftigt (vgl. Costopoulos 2…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited Contact Points: Memphis, Naukratis, and the Greek East in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoAn essay on the Greeks in Egypt during the Archaic and Classical periods.
Natalia Elvira Astoreca deposited Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin, Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos (ed.), Panhellenes at Methone: graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 44 . Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. Pp. x, 377. ISBN 9783110501278. $137.99. in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoReview of Jenny Strauss Clay, Irad Malkin, Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos (ed.), Panhellenes at Methone: graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone.
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Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoAs the 2017-18 academic job cycle came to an end I found myself, for the first time in five years, in the enviable position of not having to resume my search for employment again in the fall, thanks to a two-year position at a very eminent institution. This good fortune has prompted me to compile my reflections on the classical archaeology job…[Read more]
Erin Averett deposited Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoMobilizing the Past is a collection of 20 articles that explore the use and impact of mobile digital technology in archaeological field practice. The detailed case studies present in this volume range from drones in the Andes to iPads at Pompeii, digital workflows in the American Southwest, and examples of how bespoke, DIY, and commercial software…[Read more]
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Dominik Hagmann deposited Reflections on the Use of Social Networking Sites as an Interactive Tool for Data Dissemination in Digital Archaeology in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoBased on a case study, the paper analyses the possibilities of social media as a tool for science communication in the context of information and communication technology (ICT) usage in archaeology. Aside from discussing the characteristics of digital archaeology, the social networking sites (SNS) Twitter, Sketchfab, and ResearchGate are…[Read more]
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