Knowledge Commons | Andrea Sinclair | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/andrea/activity/ Activity feed for Andrea Sinclair. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:28:50 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f68f48a316fc9c59d109e9f506a01939 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1907930/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:09:10 -0500 0 cd627dde76675b7e7567a4dd15c1d409 Andrea Sinclair posted a new activity comment via email https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887855/#acomment-1887883 Sun, 02 Jun 2024 15:17:31 -0400 This "update" is spam

In reply to - ]]> 106a603dc2d659e24e56e7dabeea4087 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880196/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:20 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4c85ca375e1bf92c167dcb2da2794e5 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt in the group History of Medicine in the Middle East/North Africa https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880195/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:18 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[Read more]

]]> 0 77a7b25a120a33694e01081a4bf633e5 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880194/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:17 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3b09d06544de3c60f0f7a643c5c69c6 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880091/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:09:03 -0400 0 02971ee4e6af65dc3c061c52ce34d420 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880079/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:42:12 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d15c41d44167ecda31a957a4e3e04a0 Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the 'International Style' in the group Near Eastern Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837809/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:24:25 -0400 The Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d9cb071488b81bc05fb52ab9ce70f6d Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the 'International Style' in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837808/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:24:02 -0400 The Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ba8fba3ba7defecf5b6157158ad56a7 Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the 'International Style' in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837807/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:23:41 -0400 The Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]

]]> 0 261b6c8d0d8ba87b16fb12797e1a504e Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the 'International Style' in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837806/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:23:40 -0400 The Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]

]]> 0 2db224ff2375c87e08cb8d803481ac68 Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the 'International Style' https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837766/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:21:57 -0400 The Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cd5ce28ec8216d651bac9d92539d6f8 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817187/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 10:54:17 -0400 0 bea15a1e7e97efa15b2e5009d864a7fc Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779624/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:20:02 -0400 0 1b07fdb1fdbab63a910d059dbdb453a3 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778706/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:15:25 -0400 0 540fe48099069fc1e44df26dd0c2ba92 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 Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758034/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:24:26 -0500 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]

]]> 0 143ce2a3c2ecc9bbcaaa8fcba6117052 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758033/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:23:56 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c4da58f86af84af740101860f8f5ecce 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 Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758032/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 02:23:55 -0500 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]

]]> 0 89ca475f5c85a32be2c51149431cdd92 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? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757939/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 12:47:54 -0500 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]

]]> 0 43c297c2e67e6071cf9d9499d1604fc1 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1755394/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:05:42 -0400 0 34aed96172b76a901cd357c8cb103e8c Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt: The Use and Abuse of Psychoactive Plant Identifications in Alternative Egyptology in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753490/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 02:24:10 -0400 Text to a presentation on the misrepresentation of ancient Egyptian psychoactive consumption in academic publications and public media that was given by me at the Alternative Egyptology Symposium, hosted by the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 14-04-2021. There is an academic paper in preparation.

]]> 0 9ff8daba165ea7f73bb26be3dab68fcd Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt: The Use and Abuse of Psychoactive Plant Identifications in Alternative Egyptology in the group Egyptology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753489/ Sat, 02 Oct 2021 02:24:09 -0400 Text to a presentation on the misrepresentation of ancient Egyptian psychoactive consumption in academic publications and public media that was given by me at the Alternative Egyptology Symposium, hosted by the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 14-04-2021. There is an academic paper in preparation.

]]> 0 4e3be73fc3ac8a6f19b5db9214bb556f Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753432/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:19:00 -0400 Text to a presentation on the misrepresentation of ancient Egyptian psychoactive consumption in public fora that was given by me at the Alternative Egyptology Symposium, and hosted by the Allard Pierson Museum, 14-04-2021. There is an academic paper in preparation.

]]> 0 2dfc00a04b1ccb57f3c6cc135a8f6dae Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1753431/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 12:09:19 -0400 0 1853387732be02f7314f785310d1bf30 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744888/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:39:07 -0400 0 5d0007f01750dbafe25aaffd9bcc5964 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1712139/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:20:36 -0400 0 00c9ce16d86df08c60ac88dc211eb009 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1709178/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:57:54 -0400 0 e52ea07ec3bbfb5371d32cca9c9ee18b Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693386/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:38:41 -0400 0 9aee8d3ee7c3619c5124f87faa2510a7 Andrea Sinclair deposited ‘The International Style, Colour and Polychrome Faience’. in the group Near Eastern Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691158/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:25:51 -0400 The International Style is a theoretical model used to describe various objects from the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age that exhibit hybrid diagnostic features (iconography, media, form). Resulting in the inability for archaeologists over the past 150 years to identify cultural source. This paper is a reprint of the chapter on colour…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b0d0ba582125a865f5709438031bc5c Andrea Sinclair deposited ‘The International Style, Colour and Polychrome Faience’. in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691157/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:25:21 -0400 The International Style is a theoretical model used to describe various objects from the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age that exhibit hybrid diagnostic features (iconography, media, form). Resulting in the inability for archaeologists over the past 150 years to identify cultural source. This paper is a reprint of the chapter on colour…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b0d0ba582125a865f5709438031bc5c Andrea Sinclair deposited ‘The International Style, Colour and Polychrome Faience’. in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691156/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:25:21 -0400 The International Style is a theoretical model used to describe various objects from the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age that exhibit hybrid diagnostic features (iconography, media, form). Resulting in the inability for archaeologists over the past 150 years to identify cultural source. This paper is a reprint of the chapter on colour…[Read more]

]]> 0 25dd67786e26fb652d7a8ed3c0815ebb Andrea Sinclair deposited ‘The International Style, Colour and Polychrome Faience’. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1691076/ Sun, 14 Jun 2020 14:01:01 -0400 The International Style is a theoretical model used to describe various objects from the Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age that exhibit hybrid diagnostic features (iconography, media, form). Resulting in the inability for archaeologists over the past 150 years to identify cultural source. This paper is a reprint of the chapter on colour…[Read more]

]]> 0 b35cad171931090156444e01978cb5ae Andrea Sinclair deposited Colour Symbolism in Ancient Mesopotamia. in the group Near Eastern Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641785/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:40:46 -0400 Brief overview of the visual and linguistic evidence for the value of minerals and colours in ancient Mesopotamia

]]> 0 f1b4654463efd60c5bef1f0995a2d9c6 Andrea Sinclair deposited Colour Symbolism in Ancient Mesopotamia. in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641784/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:40:19 -0400 Brief overview of the visual and linguistic evidence for the value of minerals and colours in ancient Mesopotamia

]]> 0 fd946a5a851270e489c366be611ffab6 Andrea Sinclair deposited Erroneous Terms in Archaeology and Popular Literature: the ‘Mother Goddess’, or Why I Can be Tiresome at Social Engagements. in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641783/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:39:48 -0400 Overview of the modern myth of a prehistoric great mother goddess

]]> 0 fd946a5a851270e489c366be611ffab6 Andrea Sinclair deposited Erroneous Terms in Archaeology and Popular Literature: the ‘Mother Goddess’, or Why I Can be Tiresome at Social Engagements. in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641782/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:39:48 -0400 Overview of the modern myth of a prehistoric great mother goddess

]]> 0 46f453c936fe3df6c7d442e1ea99afad Andrea Sinclair deposited Enduring Fictions of Late Victorian Fantasy: Sir Arthur Evans and the Faience Goddesses from Minoan Crete. in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641781/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:39:15 -0400 A brief examination of the modern mythology around the faience votive figures from the "Temple Repositories" at Knossos in Crete that were discovered and heavily restored by Arthur Evans and his team at Knossos in the early 20th century

]]> 0 46f453c936fe3df6c7d442e1ea99afad Andrea Sinclair deposited Enduring Fictions of Late Victorian Fantasy: Sir Arthur Evans and the Faience Goddesses from Minoan Crete. in the group Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641780/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:39:15 -0400 A brief examination of the modern mythology around the faience votive figures from the "Temple Repositories" at Knossos in Crete that were discovered and heavily restored by Arthur Evans and his team at Knossos in the early 20th century

]]> 0 e31abd752dcd4215f9900e4e630b01bc Andrea Sinclair deposited Colour Symbolism in Ancient Mesopotamia. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640981/ Mon, 27 May 2019 14:42:08 -0400 Brief overview of the visual and linguistic evidence for the value of minerals and colours in ancient Mesopotamia

]]> 0 2fbead6188679d45cb4ddbbc0373fa82 Andrea Sinclair deposited Erroneous Terms in Archaeology and Popular Literature: the ‘Mother Goddess’, or Why I Can be Tiresome at Social Engagements. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640979/ Mon, 27 May 2019 14:36:57 -0400 Overview of the modern myth of a prehistoric great mother goddess

]]> 0 73157ccacad7464ff8f0085579c0673d Andrea Sinclair deposited Enduring Fictions of Late Victorian Fantasy: Sir Arthur Evans and the Faience Goddesses from Minoan Crete. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640978/ Mon, 27 May 2019 14:24:47 -0400 A brief examination of the modern mythology around the faience votive figures from the "Temple Repositories" at Knossos in Crete that were discovered and heavily restored by Arthur Evans and his team at Knossos in the early 20th century

]]> 0 9bc3e346d990713cd2f0675f0b88ca28 Andrea Sinclair deposited Unmasking Ancient Colour: Colour and the Classical Theatre Mask https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1640975/ Mon, 27 May 2019 13:38:30 -0400 Article examining the possible function and value of colour for masks used in performance in ancient Greek and Roman theatre

]]> 0 2c966ec8defd15a06e1f476fe561f0c2 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1602372/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:01:58 -0500 0 db66c04185089083e6ac6ce6fa9fa746 Andrea Sinclair's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600888/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:03:46 -0500 0