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Justin Walsh deposited A method for space archaeology research: the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoSpace archaeology is defined as the study of “the material culture relevant to space exploration that is found on Earth and in outer space (i.e., exoatmospheric material) and that is clearly the result of human behavior” (Gorman & O’Leary 2013: 409). The aim of space archaeology is to understand the interaction of technology and human behav…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Víctimas de las vacunas in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHay en la Unión Europea, según los datos oficiales (nada aireados), muchos miles de muertos y muchos centenares de miles de enfermos por efectos negativos de las vacunas “de nueva tecnología” contra el Covid-19. No esperen oír esto en la tele ni leerlo en el periódico.
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Andrea Sinclair deposited Iconographic Entanglement in New Kingdom Egyptian Royal Rhetoric: Was the ‘International Style’ a Nuanced Form of Visual Rhetoric for an Old Office? in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe Late Bronze Age is renowned for heightened interregional interaction in the entire Near East and Eastern Mediterranean as wealthy states like Egypt and Hatti jostled with each other in the pursuit of valuable commodities, technologies and materials. This increased political and economic interaction is credited in relatively recent scholarship…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Net of Words: El autoengendramiento de ‘Beowulf’ in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoComentamos algunos elementos de autoengendramienento en el poema épico anglosajón ´Beowulf´. El motivo del autoengendramiento literario emerge espontáneamente allí a partir de la naturaleza misma de la narración—o quizá más bien vemos la emergencia natural de la narración artística a partir de las prácticas sociales que dieron lugar a ella, práct…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Arqueología del lenguaje y del pensamiento in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoComentamos, con ocasión del libro de Ángel Rivera ‘Arqueología del lenguaje’, los principales conceptos de arqueología cognitiva y sus posibles desarrollos en relación en particular a las aportaciones de la lingüística cognitiva y la narratología.
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Henry Colburn deposited A Parthian Shot of Potential Arsacid Date in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis paper publishes a ceramic bowl in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a Parthian shot. Although it lacks archaeological provenance, the bowl can be dated to the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, and probably comes from northwestern Iran. It is, therefore, one of the few possible instances of a Parthian shot from the Arsacid Empire.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited 60 millones de muertos el año de la pandemia: Grandes cifras in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEl año de la pandemia no murieron cuatro millones de personas. Murieron casi 60 millones, de diversas causas, entre ellas un número indeterminado por Covid-19. Las grandes cifras engañan mucho, y más si están intervenidas y subvencionadas.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEnglish abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer’s theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________ Spanish…[Read more]
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Stefanie Samida deposited Über Interdisziplinarität: Betrachtungen zur Kooperation von Natur- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Archäologie in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis article discusses major issues of interdisciplinary research. In the introduction, the concepts of ›disciplinarity‹, ›multidisciplinarity‹, ›interdisciplinarity‹ and ›transdisciplinarity‹ are being explicated. This is followed by a comparative treatment of experiences with designing and practicing interdisciplinarity in various fields…[Read more]
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Dimitri Nakassis deposited Why the periphery should be central to Mycenaean studies in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoIn this paper I outline some of empirical and theoretical problems associated with the dividing Mycenaean Greece into a core and a periphery. The periphery has traditionally been defined in contrast to a homogeneous palatial core, but recent research has shown that this homogeneity is illusory. I suggest, following Knappett’s discussion of M…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited En tiempos de los cíclopes in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoComentamos en este artículo la figura de los cíclopes en Homero y en Vico, leyéndola como un arquetipo cultural y psicológico de la sociedad protohumana. Los dos aspectos complementarios del mito (como tradición cultural que se remonta a la prehistoria, y como estructura psicológica, referida a la socialización y al desarrollo psicológico individ…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Consanguineous unions in the archaeology and mythology of the Neolithic passage-tomb at Newgrange, Ireland in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA recent genetic study has revealed that the adult male buried in the most elaborate recess of the Neolithic passage-tomb at Newgrange was the child of a first-degree incestuous union, suggesting that the complex was built as a burial monument for an endogamous family elite who may have been regarded as “god-kings.” The present paper shows how clo…[Read more]
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Henry Colburn deposited Von Silber und Getreide – Zahlungsmittel und Wirtschaft im Achämenidenreich in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA short essay on the different forms of money used in the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Translated into German by Julia Linke.
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Dimitri Nakassis deposited The Extractive Systems of the Mycenaean World in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis chapter surveys the means by which the Late Bronze Age polities of Mycenaean Greece acquired goods and services, with a focus on regular extractive transactions.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Never Let Me Go’: El sujeto en la sociedad orgánica in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Artículo sobre algunas implicaciones ideológicas de la película ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), basada en la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ofrece un retrato de la sociedad como un sistema educativo manipulador, que mantiene a los niños ignorantes de las cosas más importantes que se pueden saber sobre el poder y la expl…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Meandering in Transition in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThe chapter opens the “Meandering in Transition” collection. It presents contributors and outlines reasons why some of the Central and Eastern European states accomplished a decisive break with the Communist past and became members of European and transatlantic structures, while some opted for pseudo-transition and fostered hybrid political…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La macdonaldización de la sociedad in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]
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Julia Mattes deposited Neolithische Kunst der zirkumpolaren Jäger und Sammler Die Figuren der Grübchenkeramischen Kultur und ihre Deutung in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe neolithic figurines of North – and North-East Europe, belonging to Pitted Ware culture and Pit-Comb Ware culture, are a desideratum to research. These pretty creations, often sculptures of human and animals such as bears, moose, seals, wild-horse, domestic animals and fantastic four-limped beings are spatially distributed over the Baltic R…[Read more]
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Darshi Arachige deposited Do the estimated admixture times confirm the proposed Holocene Gene flow from India to Australia? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis paper argues that the current estimates for the time of influx of Indian genes into
some sections of the Australian Aboriginal population during the Holocene bear large
uncertainties which make elimination of the probability of a more recent gene flow less
likely. It also highlights that indications for the plausibility of a later gene…[Read more] - Load More