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Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET (2020) in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI wrote the first version of this guide in the summer of 2018. For the first time in my career I had received a multi-year fellowship, and I had been told that the position had a good chance of continuing beyond the initial fellowship period, if not of becoming permanent. So, since I did not expect to have to search for employment again, it seemed…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited A PERFUNCTORY AND HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO THE CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY JOB MARKET (2020) in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoI wrote the first version of this guide in the summer of 2018. For the first time in my career I had received a multi-year fellowship, and I had been told that the position had a good chance of continuing beyond the initial fellowship period, if not of becoming permanent. So, since I did not expect to have to search for employment again, it seemed…[Read more]
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Cat Quine deposited Bereaved Mothers and Masculine Queens: The Political Use of Maternal Grief in 1-2 Kings. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRecent research demonstrates that maternal grief functions paradigmatically to epitomize despair and sorrow in the Hebrew Bible. These literary uses of maternal grief reinforce the stereotype of womanhood, defined by devotion to children and anguish at their loss. In 1–2 Kings, narratives about unnamed bereaved mothers are used politically to c…[Read more]
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Roland Steinacher deposited Das Tiroler Inntal in vor- und frührömischer Zeit in the group
Roman Provincial Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAus historischer Sicht sind genauere Definitionen, Abgrenzungen und ethnische Zuweisungen der
Bevölkerung des Alpengebiets in vorrömischer Zeit ausgesprochen schwierig, umstritten und problematisch.
Die einschlägigen Diskussionen drehen sich meist um die Kategorien „Kelten“ oder „Räter“
3. Beide Zuordnungen sind jedoch seit der Antike unsc…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Das Tiroler Inntal in vor- und frührömischer Zeit in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAus historischer Sicht sind genauere Definitionen, Abgrenzungen und ethnische Zuweisungen der
Bevölkerung des Alpengebiets in vorrömischer Zeit ausgesprochen schwierig, umstritten und problematisch.
Die einschlägigen Diskussionen drehen sich meist um die Kategorien „Kelten“ oder „Räter“
3. Beide Zuordnungen sind jedoch seit der Antike unsc…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Die Bischofssitze Rätiens und Noricums vor ihrem historischen Hintergrund – Bruch und Kontinuität in the group
Roman Provincial Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDieser Text soll auf drei Ebenen Fragen an die Quellen tragen. Erstens will ich versuchen, exemplarisch
Entwicklungslinien zwischen der antiken Provinzstruktur und dem bairischen Dukat
– einer militärisch-politischen Organisation nach spätantikem Muster – bis in karolingische Zeit
herauszuarbeiten. Zweitens soll die Frage gestellt werden, wie u…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Die Bischofssitze Rätiens und Noricums vor ihrem historischen Hintergrund – Bruch und Kontinuität in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDieser Text soll auf drei Ebenen Fragen an die Quellen tragen. Erstens will ich versuchen, exemplarisch
Entwicklungslinien zwischen der antiken Provinzstruktur und dem bairischen Dukat
– einer militärisch-politischen Organisation nach spätantikem Muster – bis in karolingische Zeit
herauszuarbeiten. Zweitens soll die Frage gestellt werden, wie u…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Die Bischofssitze Rätiens und Noricums vor ihrem historischen Hintergrund – Bruch und Kontinuität in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDieser Text soll auf drei Ebenen Fragen an die Quellen tragen. Erstens will ich versuchen, exemplarisch
Entwicklungslinien zwischen der antiken Provinzstruktur und dem bairischen Dukat
– einer militärisch-politischen Organisation nach spätantikem Muster – bis in karolingische Zeit
herauszuarbeiten. Zweitens soll die Frage gestellt werden, wie u…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Ethnische Identität und die Meistererzählung von der Wanderung. Probleme der Frühgeschichte in Geschichtswissenschaft und Archäologie in the group
Roman Provincial Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoZusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Ethnonyme
über einen sehr langen Zeitraum in Gebrauch
sein konnten. Im Falle der Veneder verschob sich
die Bedeutung. Sie galt nicht mehr nur für eine bestimmte
Gruppe, sondern bezog sich auf die Gesamtheit
der Fremden, die im Wahrnehmungsbereich der
eigenen Sprachgemeinschaft lagen. So wie man de…[Read more] -
Roland Steinacher deposited Ethnische Identität und die Meistererzählung von der Wanderung. Probleme der Frühgeschichte in Geschichtswissenschaft und Archäologie in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoZusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass Ethnonyme
über einen sehr langen Zeitraum in Gebrauch
sein konnten. Im Falle der Veneder verschob sich
die Bedeutung. Sie galt nicht mehr nur für eine bestimmte
Gruppe, sondern bezog sich auf die Gesamtheit
der Fremden, die im Wahrnehmungsbereich der
eigenen Sprachgemeinschaft lagen. So wie man de…[Read more] -
Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B ‘extra’ signs – syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the ‘core’ signs of the Linear B syllabary – are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B ‘extra’ signs – syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the ‘core’ signs of the Linear B syllabary – are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Processes of script adaptation and creation in Linear B: the evidence of the “extra” signs in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter examines the ways in which the Linear B ‘extra’ signs – syllabograms which can in certain circumstances replace the ‘core’ signs of the Linear B syllabary – are often used as evidence for the process by which this writing system was created from its parent writing system, Linear A, and thus, by extension, for reconstructing aspects of…[Read more]
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Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Deities, Demons, and Monsters in Mesopotamia. in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoOverview of demons and monsters in Mesopotamia, highlighting works in the Yale Babylonian Collection.
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Lloyd Graham deposited Iconographic similarities between Permian “goddess plaques” (Ural region, 7-8th centuries CE) and Horus cippi (Egypt, 8th century BCE – 2nd century CE) in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe iconography of the Horus cippus, an amulet popular in Egypt from the late Third Intermediate Period to Roman times (8th century BCE – 2nd century CE), is unexpectedly recapitulated in bronze “goddess plaques” of the 7-8th centuries CE made by Permian peoples – Finno-Ugric groups from the Ural region of northern Eurasia. The likely expla…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited The Linear B Inscribed Stirrup Jars in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoTransport stirrup jars – so-called because of the shape formed by their handles and false neck – are a common type of Mycenaean pottery: used to transport and store liquid commodities, usually assumed to be olive oil, they are found throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean. A small sub-group of these carry painted inscriptions in the Lin…[Read more]
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Anna P. Judson deposited Review of Variation within and among Writing Systems: Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents. LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Variation within and among Writing Systems: Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents. LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017. 384. ISBN 9783954901456 €98.00. in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of a collection of papers on variation in historical writing systems. The review focuses particularly on chapters on Linear B, Anatolian alphabets, and Hittite cuneiform.
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Anna P. Judson deposited Review of Supplemento al Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B. Biblioteca di Pasiphae Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi, Supplemento al Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B. Biblioteca di Pasiphae. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017. 224. ISBN 9788862279482 €225.00. in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of the most recent edition of Linear B inscriptions painted onto transport stirrup jars.
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Anna P. Judson deposited Review of Supplemento al Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B. Biblioteca di Pasiphae Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi, Supplemento al Corpus delle iscrizioni vascolari in lineare B. Biblioteca di Pasiphae. Pisa; Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2017. 224. ISBN 9788862279482 €225.00. in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReview of the most recent edition of Linear B inscriptions painted onto transport stirrup jars.
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James M. Harland deposited Memories of migration? The ‘Anglo-Saxon’ burial costume of the fifth century AD in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoIt is often claimed that the mortuary traditions that appeared in lowland Britain in the fifth century AD are an expression of new forms of ethnic identity, based on the putative memorialisation of a ‘Germanic’ heritage. This article considers the empirical basis for this assertion and evaluates it in the light of previously proposed ethnic con…[Read more]
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