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Jeffrey A. Becker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited CLAS 280A – 01 = ARTH 281A – 01 = ANTH 280U – 01 ART IN THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This course explores the art, archaeology, and culture of the Greek world from prehistory to the Roman period. The course focuses on architecture, sculpture, painted pottery, and wall painting as its main object classes and situates artistic and stylistic developments within their social, political, and historical context. We will consider issues…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Greek and Roman architecture course syllabus on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
This course introduces students to the study of Mediterranean material culture by focusing on the development of ancient Greek and Roman architecture from the Late Bronze Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The survey begins in the Greek world, examining the formal and technical development of Greek architecture. Topics considered will include…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Syllabus for Urbanism in antiquity, spring 2021 in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis course explores key themes related to the archaeology of urbanism and urban centers in the ancient Mediterranean world. The development of urban culture in the Mediterranean world and western Asia will provide an opportunity to discuss cultural interactions and the development of the framework of urban culture in the ancient Near East, while…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Syllabus for Urbanism in antiquity, spring 2021 on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
This course explores key themes related to the archaeology of urbanism and urban centers in the ancient Mediterranean world. The development of urban culture in the Mediterranean world and western Asia will provide an opportunity to discuss cultural interactions and the development of the framework of urban culture in the ancient Near East, while…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
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Alejandro G. Sinner deposited Baitolo, a native shipowner’s vessel, and the participation of northern Iberians in the Laietanian wine-trade under the Late Republic on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
This paper discusses a unique artifact1 of considerable archaeological, philological and historical value, as well as its implications for our understanding of the rôle that the native inhabitants of NE Spain, especially those known as the Laeetani (Plin., NH 3.3.21), played in the major economic undertaking that the export of wine from…[Read more]
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Sarah Bond's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
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Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEvidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEvidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEvidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoEvidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Finding love: The materialities of love-locks and geocaches in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article is the product of a collaboration between a folklorist researching the global phenomenon of love-locks (padlocks attached to public structures in declaration of romantic commitment) and an archaeologist who also happens to be a player of ‘Geocaching’ (a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices). A chance dis…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Curing with Creepy Crawlies: A Phenomenological Approach to Beetle Pendants Used in Roman Magical and Medicinal Practice on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Evidence for some ephemeral, Roman, ritual practices, particularly using organic materials, is lost to us. This paper will introduce a case study which has not been previously considered as a platform to explore the material relationships between invertebrates and their use in magical or medicinal practices. Through a combination of discussing the…[Read more]
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Adam Parker deposited Finding love: The materialities of love-locks and geocaches on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
This article is the product of a collaboration between a folklorist researching the global phenomenon of love-locks (padlocks attached to public structures in declaration of romantic commitment) and an archaeologist who also happens to be a player of ‘Geocaching’ (a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices). A chance dis…[Read more]
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Alex Woolf deposited British Ethnogenesis: a Late Antique Story in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]
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Alex Woolf deposited British Ethnogenesis: a Late Antique Story in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]
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Alex Woolf deposited British Ethnogenesis: a Late Antique Story on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
This chapter will deal with the origin of the people known as the Britons as defined under the headword ‘Briton, n.1. A member of one of the Brittonic-speaking peoples originally inhabiting all of Britain south of the Firth of Forth, and in later times spec. Strathclyde, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany’ in the OED, rather than the neologistic sense…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
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Alex Woolf deposited The ‘Moray Question’ and the Kingship of Alba in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis paper examines the nature and basis of the competition between the dynasty based in Moray, to which the famous MacBeth belonged, and the mainline of Scottish kings.
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