https://hcommons.org/members/brookenorton/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Brooke Norton is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:57:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 265a4bfcd5c9d6f2eaa77a6f6de0442c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896907/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE). The experiment aimed to: (1) develop a new understanding of how humans adapt to life in an environmental context for which we are not…[Read more]

]]> 0 d3fd02fd2d13370238516d1687ff58d5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895886/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e44d51780b62d0af606152f25f6eb38 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895880/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c31a9b9c17044a418d2ab7f8c8a55a8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890210/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:07:04 -0400 Memes related to archaeological materials abound on social media. In this chapter, we present a case study looking at memes collected from accounts on Instagram that evince an interested in human skeletal remains. We present a framework for understanding memes as ‘partial stories’ which in aggregate enables us to say something about the aud…[Read more]

]]> 0 051f6a5f48dfdee7015e3e1a3fb13d23 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889910/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Ancient Egyptian barque oracles had a recent counterpart in the phenomenon of “table-turning”, an occult process experienced in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist séances. The séance table’s small-scale successor, the Talking Board, ensured that oracular locomotion persisted throughout the Twentieth Century; its best-known embodiment – the Ouija boa…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed4f16743bd7fb46df8bcbb96e65a138 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889850/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:01:31 -0400 The evidence for collapse of human civilizations at the start of the recently defined Meghalayan Age is equivocal

]]> 0 ba1ff800d008d5bcdf581f2f13f88270 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889847/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:58 -0400 How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]

]]> 0 cde97abcd3e43ed2170a418e7b07a482 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889844/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:23 -0400 Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8b8a8dec2c53eff77f97ae3b56067b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888407/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:01 -0400 This chapter argues that women’s most prominent role in ancient Japanese manuscript cultures was not as authors of texts but as patrons. Women likely commissioned the transcription of tens of thousands of scrolls of Buddhist scripture. They also produced short inscriptions, in colophons and on clay and other materials, that documented their p…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0e0ab441f67307a8e9e6ecd77c1bd03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887443/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Aimed at young (at heart) people, this comic-strip format book introduces the discovery, and associated challenges of interpretation, of a petroglyph found, disturbed, in the entrance passage way of Middle Iron Age hillfort, at Nesscliffe in Shropshire, UK.  The Nesscliffe petroglyph ('Nessglyph') is made using two types of engraving technologies…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac50be2b004e6b0026767bd6ed101a70 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885670/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:47 -0400 This study challenges the 19th-century nationalist assumptions that have informed modern views of Aramean peoplehood in the first half of the first millennium BCE. I revisit the cuneiform sources, which offer the bulk of the existing evidence on the earliest Arameans, and demonstrate that they conceive of Arameans not as a single coherent people,…[Read more]

]]> 0 510c2adc6a4aa36f74ee0c1786ab2804 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885668/ Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:09 -0400 Very brief overview of the parameters of demand and supply for cuneiform knowledge production.

]]> 0 d977a3d6d07d2d3fcb8f69b05c1e8783 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885231/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:03 -0400 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 565d48dda9e7026715837cb91c2a390b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882215/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:05 -0400 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein's flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 fc6595b136b6270c04ffb4d9e4f89535 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882211/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:29 -0400 This paper reviews Latène material found near Gingen where aerial photographs show a “Viereckschanze”. Obviously there has been a very extended settlement area surrounding the Viereckschanze. Finds mainly consist of coarse ware, but include also the fragment of a fibula. The site is integrated in a regional perspective presenting a map of Latè…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b988699ebe416332b05ea491920a0df https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882204/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:21 -0400 A Woman's Grave of late Hallstatt period at Bartenbach
Discovered in the 1930s the Bartenbach grave represents a woman's burial of Halstatt D1 period as indicated by bronze belt plate and an earring. According to current state of research the burial belongs to a concentration of Hallstatt finds southwest of mount Hohenstaufen, which was a hilltop…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f0c3fff395824afaca4abe4bc4c74f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881298/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:36 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 32abf9fc3265ecb163eb5c27664acc55 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881297/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:14 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdae58fc8322b0b311e555dbb6298b06 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877896/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:00:33 -0500 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 08088199a84674bf8c9777db58a1b84c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876938/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:00:02 -0500 This course provides an introductory survey of the archaeology, art, and architecture of ancient Egypt. The course begins by considering the prehistoric cultures of the Nile Valley and continues to the period of the Roman empire. The course will consider Egypt both chronologically and thematically by examining famous features and sites, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 49635e0726e6630f5450242fa7de4af4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871177/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Reseña del cortometraje "Quma y las bestias", que contó con la asesoría multidisciplinaria de paleontólogos, arqueólogas, biólogos e ilustradores especialistas en paleoarte.

]]> 0 f6a26d9a67b893853523f28967e06ffc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871176/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:49 -0500 En este trabajo se presenta el desarrollo del proceso de patrimonialización de un cañón de hierro fabricado en 1789, probablemente en una fundición sueca. La pieza de artillería fue recuperada a comienzos del siglo XX del solar en donde funcionó el antiguo Juzgado de Paz y la Comisaría de San Antonio de Areco. Dicha pieza, forma parte de un conjun…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ce4cea73743bfd432c95ab64416ab56 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871175/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:27 -0500 Este trabajo se constituye como un espacio interdisciplinario para reflexionar sobre el aporte de los métodos y técnicas digitales en la práctica de nuestra disciplina, tanto en la documentación, como en el análisis y reconstrucción virtual del material arqueológico, además de la gestión integral del patrimonio cultural. A tal efecto, se consider…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad2a052b2d137f348513775126aeb92f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871174/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:04 -0500 El desarrollo tecnológico de las últimas décadas ha proporcionado múltiples posibilidades de comunicación con diversos públicos. Nuevas herramientas y canales complementan y optimizan las preexistentes y exigen también la construcción de nuevos tipos de relato, junto a la conformación de equipos multidisciplinarios que combinen diferentes saberes.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f996ca316f6b3c642ca4cfa27a15d3d4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871043/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:26 -0500 The International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP), co-directed by Alice Gorman and me, is the first full-scale, systematic archaeological investigation of the material culture from a site of human activity in space. We started in late 2015, in response to a number of phenomena, including a growing desire to move the focus of space…[Read more]

]]> 0 86307bc78457a362d2451c6697736a2e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870452/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:08 -0500 The Tribe of Dan has always appeared to biblical scholars and archaeologists as something of an enigma. For decades, certain scholars, beginning with Yigael Yadin, have proposed a connection between the Denyen/Danaoi Sea People and the Danites of Ancient Israel, arguing that the former became the latter and were adopted into Israel at a later date…[Read more]

]]> 0 46933545c8a2de6cc88cc7e404f5c5c4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1870290/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:00:57 -0500 A summary and review of a creative and neutral approach to teaching the Documentary Hypothesis to undergraduate students.

]]> 0 9d1501043a51d5a8c60ac7db8f2fbbd5 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868887/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:00:03 -0500 This paper surveys potential counterparts of the ancient Egyptian concept of mAat (maat) from other cultures and summarises such cross-cultural studies as have already been completed. Its scope ranges from antiquity to the present day and across Europe, Africa, the Near East, India, China, Australia and the Americas. Paradigms that appear to…[Read more]

]]> 0 8acf106589f795bceee57b5f4bb461bb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868555/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:07:08 -0500 Book review

]]> 0 3513d44304251a45bd63cce8030395cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868554/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:45 -0500 Whether or not you’ve heard the phrase ‘the Sixties Scoop’ probably depends on where you live, your heritage, and whether you ever had the opportunity to learn about the history of Indigenous peoples. Many don’t. The word ‘scoop’ is mild, and therefore deceptive. It’s the name given to a component of Canada’s cultural genocide conducted again…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d6fe2a3a4bd726cda952fa574ac3e69 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868552/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:22 -0500 This published by the publication 'The Contingent' https://contingentmagazine.org

]]> 0 4318ebc6c83d43e74bbef3f65151d7dc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868550/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:58 -0500 In this piece Alicia writes about archeology as adventure, in the context of a long history of colonial exploration and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian 'wilderness'. https://adventureuncovered.com/stories/the-brown-bear-and-i-archeology-adventure-and-colonisation-in-the-canadian-wilderness/

]]> 0 87a73416235d01f3ccd00fdec515998c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868541/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:04 -0500 The article is published in the official Journal of The Institute of Science and Technology (ISSN 2040-1868)

]]> 0 b0e351d5ff942b71a52a865c183b3528 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868537/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:04:20 -0500 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b69705557f589c7980b1b1b06936bed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868529/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:08 -0500 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 ca45944ecc2e2c81501158be204c652d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868525/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:02:21 -0500 This article argues that the analysis of a threedimensional image demanded a three-dimensional approach. The authors realise that discussions of images and image processing inveterately conceptualise representation as being flat, static, and finite. The authors recognise the need for a fresh acuteness to three-dimensionality as a meaningful – a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b34b3fc673fb58726f2394b023354be8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868522/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:01:48 -0500 Essay on the NiCHE-Canada website: https://niche-canada.org/2023/10/30/what-is-a-heritage-river/

]]> 0 b86d062733dcda40529236673581c69b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868521/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:01:25 -0500 Book review

]]> 0 bfd1b7eecef02fd1256d021f0eba364d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868518/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:51 -0500 This article discusses four pictograph sites in the Lake of the Woods where the images were interpreted by several Indigenous peoples.

]]> 0 24878070f9205b9dc87ecbdd0b20dc83 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862877/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:01:08 -0400 This paper presents an analysis of data derived from thousands of publicly available photographs showing life on the International Space Station (ISS) between 2000 and 2020. Our analysis uses crew and locational information from the photographs’ metadata to identify the distribution of different population groups—by gender, nationality, and spa…[Read more]

]]> 0 49632aefffe8f19447e62da864a8577b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861718/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:30 -0400 Does "authorship" still have a place in the study of the Hebrew Bible? Historical criticism has long sought to uncover the human authors behind the biblical texts. But how might the "death of the author," so forcefully declared by Roland Barthes over fifty years ago, change the contours of this search? This volume brings together leading experts…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f6ef381ad66748eb4e65d77bc0d9bed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861715/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:00:06 -0400 This work provides new insights into the relationship between the Holiness legislation in Leviticus 17–26 and processes of cultic centralization in the Persian period. The author departs from the classical theory that Leviticus 17–26 merely presume, with minor modifications, a concept of centralization articulated in Deuteronomy. She shows how Lev…[Read more]

]]> 0 d33756d4e50a9b2c967807910f827e35 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861160/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:52 -0400 Early Jewish writings are replete with narratives of warfare and collective violence. Yet relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to how these accounts of violence affected the way Jews structured their festal calendar. This essay examines the festivals described in 1 and 2 Maccabees that serve to commemorate the most impressive m…[Read more]

]]> 0 27649d54e4be373873f901ebaa061922 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861157/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:28 -0400 This Open Access volume reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated. Combining case studies from Anatolia, Egypt, Greece, Israel/Judah, and Rome, it moves beyond essentialist dichotomies such as “victors” and “va…[Read more]

]]> 0 734009e90bacae9f45d34c23e8a3a8f7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860451/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:01:05 -0400 Research into emotions is a developing field within Assyriology, and NLP tools for Akkadian texts offers new perspectives on the data. We use PMI-based word embeddings to explore the relationship between parts of the body and emotions. Using data downloaded from Oracc, we ask which parts of the body were semantically linked to emotions. We do this…[Read more]

]]> 0 13b0e7ed0899151addd38ef88c20bc46 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859983/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:18:19 -0400 Beards were part of a visual matrix of expressing masculinity during the NeoAssyrian period (ca. 934–612 BCE). But masculinity does not exist in isolation and interacts with other aspects of identity. I will examine the beard as an indicator of masculine status during the Neo-Assyrian period. This will be done through investigating the visual a…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa553362cd59cf9533a697cae3af75e3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859979/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:17:38 -0400 During the Neo-Assyrian period (approximately 934-612 BCE, based in modern Iraq) the annals and royal inscriptions of several kings mention women with a curious title: ‘Queen of the Arabs’. These women have been included in previous discussions regarding Assyrian interaction with the ‘Arabs’, but a full investigation into their roles as rulers…[Read more]

]]> 0 1907d2ecca4f3ecfece909e254c9989a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859978/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:17:19 -0400 During the Neo-Assyrian period (approximately 934-612 BCE, based in modern Iraq) the annals and royal inscriptions of several kings mention women with a curious title: ‘Queen of the Arabs’. These women have been included in previous discussions regarding Assyrian interaction with the ‘Arabs’, but a full investigation into their roles as rulers…[Read more]

]]> 0 845c871204d879ad676e58ace4dbb3bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859628/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:03:51 -0400 This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 21281004a88351551612725749662ddd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859594/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:00:19 -0400 The emergence of Judaism and Samaritanism in antiquity is closely linked to the process by which the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) became defined as the Torah of Moses.

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