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Jesse Arlen deposited Gišeroy kc‘urdk‘ (Hymns of the Night): Seven Madrāše of Ephrem the Syrian Preserved in Armenian in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA translation and study of seven hymns (madrashe) on vigil of Ephrem the Syrian preserved in Classical Armenian.
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William Caraher deposited A Small Production Site at Polis in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA short paper describing recent research in the area of EF1 at Polis Chrysochous on Cyprus.
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der heilige Sava in serbischen Diskursen. Eine kulturhistorische Annäherung, in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoEine kurze Geschichte der Heiligenverehrung rund um den wichtigsten serbisch-orthodoxen Heiligen. Dargestellt aus einer kultur-anthropologischen Perspektive und im Kontext der politischen Mythologien verschiedener Bewegungen serbischer Identitätsprojekte: vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit, von dynastischer Kulturpropaganda bis zum…[Read more]
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Katy Whitaker deposited Dealing with uncertainty: improving mental health and wellbeing in an archaeological workplace in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoABSTRACT: As this session call observes, the archaeological workplace – in fact, the heritage workplace – has been transformed in recent years. Themes in the UK include archaeological professionalization; the development of commercial archaeology (hand-in-hand with national and European legislative change); a large increase in university att…[Read more]
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Ben Newbound deposited Hoa Hakananai’a and other potential Linear and cult art in the southern hemisphere in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoA paper of 17 pages as described in its title and opening lines. “Hoa Hakananai’a” is an Easter Island statue, now in the British Museum. For “Linear and cult art”, see The Problem with Linear B (https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:20833/
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Omer Aijazi deposited Kashmir as Movement and Multitude in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThe Line of Control arbitrarily bifurcates Neelum valley, Kashmir into Pakistan and India. While the border attempts to constrain and categorize, the daily movements and flows of human and more-than-human bodies via “unofficial” routes and routines generate an understanding of Kashmir that is not dependent on geopolitics. Neelum as sculpted and…[Read more]
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Daniela Avido deposited Marcas comerciales de las baldosas cerámicas recuperadas en el sitio La Elvira (Virrey del Pino, Pcia. de Buenos Aires) in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSe presentan los pasos seguidos para la caracterización de las marcas comerciales de las baldosas cerámicas del sitio La Elvira (localidad de Virrey del Pino, La Matanza, Provincia de Buenos Aires). La muestra está compuesta por un total de 56 unidades, algunas enteras y otras fragmentadas. En primer lugar se registró el tamaño y los posibles ensa…[Read more]
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Katy Whitaker deposited “Sometimes, I just want to draw…” in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis is a visual abstract for a conference paper at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference 2018 (Chester). The conveners of the conference session ‘Practising Creativity: Experimentation, Mistakes and Successes in Art-Archaeology’, James Dixon and Seren Griffiths, ask participants to discuss experimentation in art-archaeology. Artists have…[Read more]
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Barney Harris deposited Roll Me a Great Stone: A Brief Historiography of Megalithic Construction and the Genesis of the Roller Hypothesis in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe idea that prehistoric, megalith‐building communities used cylindrical, wooden rollers to transport enormous stones – the ‘roller hypothesis’ – is ubiquitous within archaeological literature and public discourse on megalithic architecture. The likelihood that such devices were actually used to transport megaliths during prehistory remains h…[Read more]
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Francesco Iacono deposited Westernizing Aegean of LH IIIC in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoStudy on the role played by material characterised by ‘western’ features in the late palatial and post palatial Aegean
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Ben Newbound deposited How dysfunctional can an archive be? The case of Linear B. in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoWhilst “The Problem with Linear B” (https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:20833/) focused on the physical or visual aspects of Linear objects, this paper mainly examines the secondary assumptions and arguments used to support the thesis that those objects are purely administrative.
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Ben Newbound deposited A note on a Linear B tablet from Thebes: TH X 105 in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoA 5-page paper discussing the Linear signage and visual aspects of a Linear B tablet from Thebes, Greece, apparently discovered in the 1990s.
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Mischa Hooker deposited Theosophy: Reconstructing a Compendium in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoConference handout for CAMWS 2013 paper
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Mischa Hooker deposited Lost in Translation: Polychronius on Biblical Obscurity and Hebrew Text in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoConference handout from NAPS 2012 paper
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Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Little India: Diaspora, Time and Ethnolinguistic Belonging in Hindu Mauritius in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoLittle India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr’s groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral…[Read more]
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Ben Newbound deposited The Problem with Linear B in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe book demonstrates the invalidity of existing assumptions about the administrative nature of Linear B (“Mycenaean Greek”) and related objects, proposes an alternative revolving around cult art, and explores similar evidence relating to scripts and art from the same and other regions and periods.
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Marcos André Torres de Souza deposited Análise distribucional intra-sítio em Arqueologia: algumas aplicações in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoO artigo apresenta algumas alternativas analíticas e interpretativas para a realização de estudos sobre espacialidade em sítios históricos, tomando como exemplo três casos brasileiros
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Marcos André Torres de Souza deposited Levantamento arqueológico em projetos de larga escala: a experiência do Projeto UHE-Corumbá/ Patrimônio histórico in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoEste artigo apresenta uma revisão dos principais conceitos utilizados para a realização de levantamentos arqueológicos. Tendo isso como suporte, são examinados os procedimentos que foram utilizados no Projeto UHE-Corumbá/ Patrimônio Histórico.
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Marcos André Torres de Souza deposited Entre práticas e discursos: a construção social do espaço no contexto de Goiás do século XVIII in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago.
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