-
Pamela Barmash deposited Ancient Near Eastern Law in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAncient Near Eastern Law. The oldest documented law comes from the ancient Near East. The earliest legal texts come from about 2600 B.C.E., a few hundred years after the invention of writing, and they predate by millennia the documentation for law from the other early civilizations of China and India.
-
Pamela Barmash deposited Amnesty and Reform Texts in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAmnesty and Reform Texts. Edicts of amnesty and reform decreed by a king intervened in economy and society, invalidating loans, pledges and sales, cancelling debts, and issuing behavioral instructions to government officials. They were dated to a specific time at which their provisions would come into effect.
-
Meir Edrey deposited Phoenician Ethnogenesis: The Crucial Role of Landscape in the Early Shaping of Phoenician Culture in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe paper discusses how the natural environmental conditions of the Phoenician litoral in the eastern Mediterranean had shaped their culture from a very early age.
-
Andreas Ferus deposited Open Science et al. – Was geht uns Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken das eigentlich an und welche Initiativen existieren in diesem Zusammenhang bereits in Österreich (und darüber hinaus)? in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoOpen Access, Open Science, Open Scholarship, Open Educational Resources, Open (Research) Data, Open Infrastructures, Forschungsdatenmanagent, FAIR Principles, CARE Principles, Digital Humanities, Heritage Science, Digitalisierung, Forschungsinfrastrukturen, Repositorien, European Open Science Cloud etc. etc. sind alles Begriffe, die vielen von…[Read more]
-
Lloyd Graham deposited Similarities between North Mesopotamian (Late Halaf), Egyptian (Naqada) and Nubian (A-Group) female figurines of the 6-4th millennia BCE in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoLate Halaf female figurines of clay/pottery from northeastern Syria (Type LH.1A; 6th millennium BCE) have close parallels in predynastic Egyptian figurines (4th millennium BCE) in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. The lack of provenance for the Egyptian statuettes – all of which were purchased – has long inhibited any comparison with the…[Read more]
-
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]
-
Sabrina Autenrieth deposited All the single finds – single object depositions in the Netherlands, Belgium and beyond. in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSingle finds are often neglected in the analysis of Bronze Age depositions, since their context is often unclear or even completely unknown. It is often assumed that single finds originally belonged to hoards, graves or settlements. But do they really belong to other contexts, or are they an autonomous context category that deserves more…[Read more]
-
Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Spatial organisation and population size of small Cucuteni-Tripolye settlements: Results of geomagnetic surveys in Baia and Adâncata, Suceava County, Bucovina, Eastern Romania in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoGeomagnetic research and drillings provide new results regarding settlement organisation and population size of three small settlements from the Pre-Cucuteni and the Cucuteni A-B period of Suceava County in Romanian Bucovina. In these settlements from different stages of the Cucuteni-Tripolye complex, domestic dwellings can be distinguished from…[Read more]
-
Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern times in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDestruction is an element of human behaviour that is universally present throughout our history. But what are the driving forces behind these violent acts? Can an underlying motivation be recognised in the archaeological record? This article focuses on the destruction and mutilation of monumental architecture and figurative works, and puts them…[Read more]
-
Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern times in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDestruction is an element of human behaviour that is universally present throughout our history. But what are the driving forces behind these violent acts? Can an underlying motivation be recognised in the archaeological record? This article focuses on the destruction and mutilation of monumental architecture and figurative works, and puts them…[Read more]
-
Sabrina Autenrieth deposited Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern times in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDestruction is an element of human behaviour that is universally present throughout our history. But what are the driving forces behind these violent acts? Can an underlying motivation be recognised in the archaeological record? This article focuses on the destruction and mutilation of monumental architecture and figurative works, and puts them…[Read more]
-
Ben Newbound deposited Heinrich Schliemann and the walls of Troy in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoArt forms in Troy’s city walls, and Schliemann’s awareness thereof.
-
Thomas Barrows started the topic New Perspectives in Castle Studies in the discussion
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoPlease see the CfP for a new virtual conference this Spring:
New Perspective in Castle StudiesSpring 2021 Call For Papers Of the surviving examples of medieval monumental architecture, castles remain among the most iconic. However the structures are defined – architecturally, geographically, or sociologically – much scholarship has examined the…[Read more]
-
Justin Walsh deposited Photography and the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis chapter describes the International Space Station Archaeological Project and the importance of photography as a source of evidence for life and society on ISS.
-
Justin Walsh deposited Eternity in Low Earth Orbit: Icons on the International Space Station in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis paper investigates the material culture of icons on the International Space Station as part of a complex web of interactions between cosmonauts and the Russian Orthodox Church, reflecting contemporary terrestrial political and social aairs. An analysis of photographs from the International Space Station (ISS) demonstrated that a particular…[Read more]
-
Marco De Pietri deposited La “città” prima della città in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA didactic poster (written for schools) presented on the occasion of the conference “La città com’era, com’è, e come la vorremmo”, organized within the project “Pavia 100 Torri – Osservatorio Permanente sull’Antico”, held at the UNIPV on February 8th, 2013.
-
Marco De Pietri deposited Review of: I. von Bredow 2017, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.”, Stuttgart in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years agoReview of: I. von Bredow 2017, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.”, Stuttgart
-
Marco De Pietri deposited Review of: I. von Bredow 2017, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.”, Stuttgart in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoReview of: I. von Bredow 2017, Kontaktzone Vorderer Orient und Ägypten. Orte, Situationen und Bedingungen für primäre griechisch-orientalische Kontakte vom 10. bis zum 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.”, Stuttgart
-
Marco De Pietri deposited Review to: R. Parker (ed.) 2013, Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, Oxford in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years agoReview to: R. Parker (ed.) 2013, Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia, Oxford
-
Marco De Pietri deposited Archaeological Excavations (TR) at Niğde-Kınık Höyük: Excavation Report 2017 in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years agoNiğde-Kınık Höyük: Excavation Report of Season 2017
- Load More