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Shawn Graham deposited Behaviour Space: Simulating Roman Social Life and Civil Violence in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoFor historians, agent-based modeling (ABM) methodologies allow us to formalise our thinking about how the past worked and explore those assumptions in a way previously limited to thought-experiments. In ABM, numerous autonomous, heterogeneous agents are allowed to interact in a digital environment according to rules of behaviour directly drawn…[Read more]
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Shawn Graham deposited Concordance of Ashby and Van Deman, and others with regard to the Aqua Claudia in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoAn appendix to my MA thesis, ‘Satisfied with a Knowledge of the Totals: Labouring to Build the Claudian Aqueducts’, Reading, 1998. In this appendix, I tried to match Ashby’s descriptions of the remains of the aqueducts with Van Deman’s descriptions. From these descriptions, I crafted a volumetric model of the quantities of materials used in the…[Read more]
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Shawn Graham deposited Network Analysis and Greco-Roman Prosopography on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
Social network analysis as a distinct field of study had its genesis in the anthropological
revolt against structural-functionalism in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was born through
an awareness among a new generation of scholars that structural- functional models failed
to make adequate space for human agency. Attention to personal…[Read more] -
Shawn Graham deposited EX FIGLINIS The Network Dynamics of the Tiber Valley Brick Industry in the Hinterland of Rome. BAR International Series 1486 on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
The growth of the city of Rome was dependent on its ability to exploit successfully the human and natural resources of its hinterland. Although this hinterland eventually extended to incorporate the entire Mediterranean seaboard, the resources of the Tiber valley originally nourished the city and continued to do so despite the growth in imports…[Read more]
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Shawn Graham deposited Concordance of Ashby and Van Deman, and others with regard to the Aqua Claudia on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
An appendix to my MA thesis, ‘Satisfied with a Knowledge of the Totals: Labouring to Build the Claudian Aqueducts’, Reading, 1998. In this appendix, I tried to match Ashby’s descriptions of the remains of the aqueducts with Van Deman’s descriptions. From these descriptions, I crafted a volumetric model of the quantities of materials used in the…[Read more]
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Shawn Graham deposited TravellerSim: Growing Settlement Structures and Territories with Agent-Based Modeling on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
Agent-based modeling presents the opportunity to study phenomena such as the emergence of territories from the perspective of individuals. We present a tool for growing networks of socially-connected settlement structures from distribution map data, using an agent based model authored in the Netlogo programming language, version 3.1.2. The…[Read more]
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Shawn Graham deposited Behaviour Space: Simulating Roman Social Life and Civil Violence on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
For historians, agent-based modeling (ABM) methodologies allow us to formalise our thinking about how the past worked and explore those assumptions in a way previously limited to thought-experiments. In ABM, numerous autonomous, heterogeneous agents are allowed to interact in a digital environment according to rules of behaviour directly drawn…[Read more]
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Joshua Nudell's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months ago
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William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece in the group
Byzantine Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]
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William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece in the group
Biblical archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]
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William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]
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William Caraher deposited Church, Society, and the Sacred in Early Christian Greece on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
This dissertation proposes a social analysis of the Early Christian basilicas (4th-6th century) of Southern and Central Greece, predominantly those in the Late Roman province of Achaia. After an introduction which places the dissertation in the broader context of the study of Late Antique Greece, the second chapter argues that church construction…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Gabii und Rom – zwei antike Zentren in Mittelitalien in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn der Antike spielte Gabii eine wichtige politische und wirtschaftliche Rolle in Mittelitalien. Es stand in beispiellosem diplomatischem Kontakt zu Rom, und der Historiker Dionysios von Halikarnassos berichtet von einem Zustand politischer Gleichheit – isopoliteia – beider Städte. Gabii lag südlich von Rom am Krater von Castiglione und erstr…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Gabii und Rom – zwei antike Zentren in Mittelitalien in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn der Antike spielte Gabii eine wichtige politische und wirtschaftliche Rolle in Mittelitalien. Es stand in beispiellosem diplomatischem Kontakt zu Rom, und der Historiker Dionysios von Halikarnassos berichtet von einem Zustand politischer Gleichheit – isopoliteia – beider Städte. Gabii lag südlich von Rom am Krater von Castiglione und erstr…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Art in the ancient Greek world in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis course explores the art, archaeology, and culture of the Greek world from the 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…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Art in the ancient Greek world in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis course explores the art, archaeology, and culture of the Greek world from the 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…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited City of Rome (first-year seminar) in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis first-year seminar provides an introduction to the archaeology and urban development of the city of Rome from antiquity through to the present day. Students will survey the period from the foundation of the city through to the twenty-first century with an eye toward understanding the urbanism and material culture of the city of Rome. Case…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited City of Rome (first-year seminar) in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis first-year seminar provides an introduction to the archaeology and urban development of the city of Rome from antiquity through to the present day. Students will survey the period from the foundation of the city through to the twenty-first century with an eye toward understanding the urbanism and material culture of the city of Rome. Case…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Archaeological field methodology in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis course offers a thorough introduction to archaeological field methods, including field survey, geophysical prospection, excavation, and post‐excavation analysis. Topics include survey, mapping, excavation, documentation, stratigraphy, typology, scientific analyses, visualization, and heritage management. We will also address the m…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Becker deposited Archaeological field methodology in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis course offers a thorough introduction to archaeological field methods, including field survey, geophysical prospection, excavation, and post‐excavation analysis. Topics include survey, mapping, excavation, documentation, stratigraphy, typology, scientific analyses, visualization, and heritage management. We will also address the m…[Read more]
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