Shortly after the United States announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, mayors of global cities committed to addressing climate change via urban-scale projects aimed at promoting liveable, sustainable, and healthy communities. While such projects are taken for granted as serving the common good, this paper addresses the…[Read more]

Se 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]

This 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]

The 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]

This essay is an attempt to think about melancholy as a shared creative endeavor, as a trans-corporeal blue (and blues) ecology that would bind humans, nonhumans, and stormy weather together in what Tim Ingold has called a meshwork. In this enmeshment of the “strange strangers” of Timothy Morton’s dark ecology, “[t]he only way out is down” a…[Read more]

Study on the role played by material characterised by ‘western’ features in the late palatial and post palatial Aegean

Whilst “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.

A 5-page paper discussing the Linear signage and visual aspects of a Linear B tablet from Thebes, Greece, apparently discovered in the 1990s.

This essay argues for the consideration of energy and an energy-based humanities model in the study of water in the Middle Ages. It also proposes that ‘energy’, when discussed in the context of the Middle Ages, is in fact a study of ‘energies’, derived from technology, material culture, and intellectual culture in equal measure. It propose…[Read more]

Christina McPhee’s ‘commonplace book’ draws from a palimpsest of handwritten notes, lists, quotations, bibliographic fragments, and sketches, from an artist whose voracious reading practice is a direct feed into her life and art — all set to a visual and textual design-as-score, as prominent writers on painting, media arts, performance, video i…[Read more]

Los profesores en ejercicio y en formación de las diferentes especialidades técnicas encontraran en este folleto aspectos muy valiosos relacionados con diferentes actividades para el perfeccionamiento de la dimensión ambiental en la asignatura Medios Tecnológicos de la especialidad Mantenimiento y Reparación de los Medios de Transporte. Adem…[Read more]

The 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.

El trabajo aborda la sistematización de los resultados científicos del proyecto Gestión Ambiental, en sus dos etapas, 2009-2012 y 2013-2016. Se obtuvieron 16 resultados científicos que posibilitaron el diseño de dos cursos en el Congreso Internacional Pedagogía 2009, 2011, 2013. Se defendieron 5 tesis doctorales relacionadas al proyecto. Los ejes…[Read more]

O artigo apresenta algumas alternativas analíticas e interpretativas para a realização de estudos sobre espacialidade em sítios históricos, tomando como exemplo três casos brasileiros

Este 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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This article uses both textual and archaeological evidence to examine the role of unbuilt land in the Babylonian city. Detailed study of such land is vital not only for understanding urban living conditions but also for any attempt to estimate urban population based on density of occupation of residential areas. By classifying and investigating…[Read more]

This 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]

This is the abstract of a paper delivered at the 2018 European Association of Archaeologists conference (Barcelona). It was part of a session called ‘Archaeological uncertainty; a journey through the ruins of a discipline’. This session highlighted ways that the disciplinary landscape of archaeology has changed over the past 30 years, and both the…[Read more]

This is a abstract for a paper presented at the 2018 European Association of Archaeologists conference (Barcelona). The session title was ‘Archaeology of rock-hewn sites and quarries: people, stones and landscapes’, and aimed to investigate theoretical and methodological issues of rock-cut sites, and quarries. The paper was a chance for me to make…[Read more]