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2011, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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This article outlines new research into the crannogs of northeast Scotland and dating of two crannogs in Loch Kinord, Upper Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The dating of the crannogs in Loch AD. in eastern Scotland.
"Lately, anthropologists and archaeologists have emphasized the social dimensions of all technologies. However, it is also well known that the quality and quantity of lithic resources affected the organisation of the prehistoric use of lithics. In areas where good-quality knappable raw material was either scarse or absent, simple lithic technologies often prevailed. These are not easily converted into reconstructions of social strategies of the past. This paper discusses the problems and possibilities in deriving social information from lithic assemblages in Eastern Fennoscandia where good quality flint does not exist. An open access version of the whole book is available at www.sau.se/filarkiv/rapporter/skilled_production.pdf"
Nami, H. G. 2006. in J. Apel and K. Knutsson, eds., Skilled Production and Social Reproduction. Aspects on Traditional Stone Tool Technologies. Uppsala, Uppsala University, Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis (SAU) & The Deparment of Archaeology and Ancient History, pp. 139-150
Lately, anthropologists and archaeologists have emphasised the social dimensions in all technologies. However, it is also well known that the quality and quantity of lithic resources affected the organisation of the prehistoric use of lithics. In areas where good-quality knappable raw material was either scarce or absent, simple lithic technologies often prevailed. These are not easily converted into reconstructions of social strategies of the past. The paper discusses the problems and possibilities in deriving social information from lithic assemblaged in Eastern Fennoscandia where good quality flint does not exist.
2003
During a fivelday symposium in late August 2003, a group of archaeologists, ethnolarchaeologists and flintknappers met in Uppsala to discuss skill in rel lation to traditional stoneltool technologies and social reproduction. It soon became apparent that we, as the organizers of the symposium, should have steered the ship with more authority than we did, at least if our sole purpose was to cover the subject of the title of the present volume.
Nami, H. G. 2006. in J. Apel and K. Knutsson, eds., Skilled Production and Social Reproduction. Aspects on Traditional Stone Tool Technologies. Uppsala, Uppsala University, Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis (SAU) & The Deparment of Archaeology and Ancient History, pp. 69–80.
2006
We would like to thank the following persons for contributing to the sympol sium and making this book possible: Helena Knutsson and Britta Wallsten helped us to plan and execute the symposium, Elisabet Green revised the language, and Lars Sundström did the digital layout of the book, Martin Högvall and Suzanne Nash made the final revision of the manuscript, and the Berit Wallenberg Foundation generously supported the symposium.
2014, The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
This paper examines two genealogical manuscripts, dating to 1518-19, connected to John Stuart, Duke of Albany: one currently in Paris, the other in the Hague. Examining these two works together demonstrates that some of the recent scholarship on the Hague Manuscript is inaccurate. A comparison shows that this manuscript is not the work, as frequently stated, of the Franco- Flemish rhetorician, Jean Lemaire de Belges, but rather both manuscripts are the work of the same artist/author: Bremond Domat. Domat was employed by Albany for over a decade in Albany's home town of Mirefleurs in the Auvergne. These two manuscripts reveal a great deal about Albany's ambitions and priorities at a time when he was still Regent of Scotland, but also when his prominence was growing in France due to connections to the powerful Florentine Medici family. http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/9818
2017, The Florida Anthropologist
A well-preserved burial, discovered during peat clearing on Langwell Farm in Strath Oykel, Easter Ross, consisted of a stone cist that held the skeleton of a woman who had died in 2200–1960 cal BC. Although the cist contents were disturbed and partly removed before archaeological investigation took place, the burial rite can be interpreted to some extent. The woman, who died in her late 20s, had been wrapped in brown cattle hide, and wooden and woven objects were placed with her body. Periodic waterlogging created conditions that allowed the rare, partial preservation of the organic materials. Analysis of bone histology indicated that decay of the human remains had been arrested, either by deliberate mummification or by waterlogging. The cist had been sent into a low knoll on the valley floor and it may have been covered with a low cairn or barrow. This spot had been the site of a fire several hundred years earlier, and it may have been a node on a cross-country route linking east and west coasts in the Early Bronze Age. The use of animal hide suggests the creation and use of particular identities, linking the dead to ancestors and to powerful spiritual properties attributed to the natural world. The work was carried out for Historic Scotland under the Human Remains Call-off Contract. To read full article: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_144/144_0065_0132.pdf
2011, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
A detailed survey of the Atlantic roundhouse at Loch Glashan (NMRS: NR99SW 8; NR 9227 9301) was carried out over two weeks in June 2003 alongside a small-scale excavation to assess the extent of damage caused by encroaching vegetation and to obtain dating evidence. The structure is a large dry-stone circular building located above Loch Glashan, and the excavations produced architectural evidence suggesting more than one phase of occupation, alongside Iron Age artefacts and radiocarbon dates. These reinforce the argument that circular Iron Age structures in Argyll belong within the wider Atlantic milieu of brochs or Atlantic roundhouses dating to the second half of the 1st millennium cal BC.
Kumulative Habilitationsschrift zur Erlangung der Venia Docendi im Fach Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie, Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Wien. Vorgelegt von Mag. Dr. phil. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury in Wien, im April 2017.
2011, theory@buffalo
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which Marxist theory has deployed the figure of the monster.
A review of evidence, in five case studies, for the geography and organisation of early monastic estates in Northumbria.
2014
THE SILVER BELT FROM VANI BURIAL N 24: A TRANSREGIONAL WORLD RECONSTRUCTED THROUGH A SINGLE ARTIFACT*
Chapter 30 - Jewelry In: Z. Herzog and L. Singer-Avitz Beer Sheva III - The Early Iron IIA Enclosed Settlement and the Late Iron IIA-Iron IIB Cities
2008, School Leadership & Management
Following the publication of the book A complete guide to the birds of Malta, which revised the status of all species and included several new species to the list of birds of Malta, another 11 new species have been added: Amur Falcon, Lesser Yellowlegs, Common Eider, Bonaparte’s Gull, Oriental Turtle Dove, Red-flanked Bluetail, Atlas Pied Flycatcher, Citrine Wagtail, Black-throated Thrush, Twite and Bobolink. The species have been observed alive in the field or found as specimens in local carefully checked collections.
"Archaeologists working on the Northwest Coast have periodically employed the use of core and column sampling to describe the taxonomic composition of fish recovered from small volumes of fine-screened archaeological deposit (Cannon 2000; Casteel 1976a; Coupland 1991; Fawcett 1991; Hanson 1991; Monks 1977; Moss 1989; Wigen and Eldon 1987). Although the controlled recovery and laboratory processing of these fine-screened (less than 6 mm) matrix samples is known to be an effective way to describe the composition of fish in a shell midden deposit, this type of analysis is rarely conducted in more than a single area of a site, and the results are not often explicitly compared to fauna identified from adjacent excavation units (but see Cannon 2000). As a result, taxonomic frequencies of fine-screened fish remains are often not included in the spatial, temporal and quantitative investigation of prehistoric subsistence practices on the Northwest Coast, even though fish remains are often the most numerous and ubiquitous vertebrate taxa present in shell midden deposits. Here, I describe fish recovered from five fine-screened column samples and compare this with the large assemblage of fish remains identified from excavation units at Tsʼishaa (Frederick and Crockford, 2005). My purpose in doing so is to provide a broader assessment of the context and significance of the fauna recovered from the site as a whole. My column sample analysis is based an assemblage of 20,245 fine-screened fish remains and is compared to an assemblage of 45,333 fish specimens examined from 1⁄4" excavation units, where fish account for the overwhelming majority of the fauna identified (66–98% NISP, Frederick and Crockford 2005)."
In Marked Men, White Masculinity in Crisis, Sally Robinson explains that much work on theorizing and analyzing white hegemonic masculinity takes it as a starting point that hegemonic masculinity and whiteness retain their powers as signifiers and normative practices because they are invisible, that is opaque to analysis. “White male power,” she claims, “has benefited enormously from keeping whiteness and masculinity in the dark” (1). Pierre Bourdieu says as much in La Domination Masculine: La force de l’ordre masculin se voit au fait qu’il se passe de justification: la vision androcentrique s’impose comme neutre et n’a pas besoin de s’énoncer dans des discours visant à la légitimité (15). [The strength of masculine social order is apparent in the fact that it does not require justification: the andro-centric worldview has imposed itself as neutral and has no need to legitimate itself overtly through discourse.] To be unmarked, disembodied and non-performative is, we understand, a necessary condition for the perpetuation of male dominance. To be unmarked, Robinson claims, is essentially to be the self-evident (meaning, transhistorical) standard against which all differences and all visible and problematic “others” are measured (blacks, women, minorities, the enslaved, the colonized, etc.). The argument goes “one cannot question, let alone dismantle, what remains invisible from view” (1). With specific attention to the constructions of masculinity mentioned above, my line of argument will precisely attempt to problematize the doxa of invisible/visible binaries, using identity-shattering moments as “markers” that, I believe, can make masculinity “visible” in ways that can be both progressive and reactionary. By focusing on the staging of masculinity in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, I will argue that the portrayal of gender performance creates tensions, ambiguities, and double meanings that assist in the questioning, denaturalizing and contesting of an hegemonic model of Southern masculinity. As I wish to suggest, the constructed nature of gender, as best exemplified in the portrayal of a revitalized—yet deviant and all but too visible—male body like Rhett Butler’s, ultimately challenges the perceived authenticity of seemingly natural and inherent “gentleman” authority
Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata
Five wide aperture seismic lines were recorded with ocean bottom seismographs offshore western Peloponnese, between the Island of Zakynthos and the Gulf of Messinia. Four lines were ENE-WSW oriented, and one N-S crossing three of them. Two of the ENE-WSW lines extended from western Peloponnese to the Mediterranean Ridge, from the continental domain of western Greece to the oceanic of the Ionian Sea. Seismic energy was generated by a 48 l (~ 2976 in3) air gun array tuned at low frequencies. Data were compiled as Common Station Gathers (CStGs) and were evaluated by first break tomography and layer tomography combined with two-point ray tracing forward modelling. The Vp-velocity models obtained by this procedure were further used to depth migrate the CStGs. Line length of the profiles varied between 60 and 180 km, with seismic station spaced between 2.5 and 5.5 km inline, and shoots fired at 125 m. The crust from western Peloponnese to the Mediterranean Ridge is continental of variable...
La figura del corpo, atipico e in decadenza, con allusioni animalesche e e intertestuali, visionario e mortale, sembra costituire un’ossessione della scrittura coetzeeana. Questo studio si propone di investigarne i molteplici livelli interpretativi attraverso le analisi di Waiting for the Barbarians e Life and Times of Michael K, ove il corpo è al centro di un problematico rapporto con le categorie di linguaggio, violenza e verità. L'ineludibile questione della valenza politica dei testi è dunque affrontata con l’ausilio di metodologie critiche decostruttive, che esplorano i meccanismi narratologici comuni ad entrambi i testi ed evidenziano la necessità di letture non mutualmente esclusive. The figure of the body, atypical and decandent, visionary and substantial, with animal and intertextual features, seems to emerge as an obsession in the writings of J. M. Coetzee. This work is an attempt to investigate multilayered interpretations through the analyses of Waiting for the Barbarians and Lives and Times of Michael K, where the body confronts categories such as language, violence and truth. The political relevance of the novels is therefore explored by allowing deconstructive critical metodologies to reveal the narratological devices shared by the two texts and point up the need for readings that are not mutually exclusive.
Stela Doncheva
2013, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
2015
Este libro compila diversos trabajos sobre arte rupestre en el mundo, desde diversos enfoques teórico-metodológicos y presentando un corpus sugerente sobre los diversos motivos rupestres localizados en diversos sitios arqueológicos. Una lectura necesaria para todo aquel interesado en el tema de la gráfica rupestre.
Very special black patinated alloys were employed in the western ancient world for exceptionally precious objects. After the fall of the Roman Empire they were lost and forgotten in the West, but they survived in Asia. In Southern China they are known as wu tong. The same material is called shakudo in Japan, where it is considered characteristic of Japanese metal art. Related patinated alloys of different colours were employed in Roman Egypt and are found in 19th century Japan too. This paper will explore the possibility of and means of technology transfer from Egypt to Asia by examining the appearance, composition, manufacture and characteristics of the various finds from the earliest to the latest in their historical contexts.
2015, Rock Art Studies News of the World IV
Endangered by deforestation, agro-industrialisation and urbanisation, the protection of Central American rock art is more necessary than even before. Locally applied strategies of rock art preservation depend on the concept of a site's further utilisation. Thus one of the most omportant to pose is: How might ancient rock art be integrated into modern social contexts?
The present paper deals with the study of Oukaïmeden rock-art. The methodology developed for it is thoroughly explained. A total number of 249 rock-art stations containing 1068 individual depictions have been examined under three levels of analysis: rock-art station, panel and individual depiction. Eight different categories of depictions have been According to our analysis, anthropomorphs evolved from naturalistic to schematic designs. The same evolution is visi-weapons, the so-called undetermined depictions or ethnographic motives are also comprehensively analysed. Pecking-pretation of the meaning of art in the context of the Oukaïmeden landscape is offered. KEY WORDS: RESUMEN-análisis los antropomorfos evolucionan desde diseño naturalistas al esquematismo. Idéntica evolución se observa en-paisaje de Oukaïmeden.
2014, Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (ed. J. Oakley) pp. 11-21
2011
Much recent scholarship has been critical of the concept of a Dál Riatic migration to, or colonisation of, Argyll. Scepticism of the accuracy of the early medieval accounts of this population movement, arguing that these are late amendments to early sources, coupled with an apparent lack of archaeological evidence for such a migration have led to its rejection. It is argued here, however, that this rejection has been based on too narrow a reading of historical sources and that there are several early accounts which, while differing in detail, agree on one point of substance, that the origin of Scottish Dál Riata lies in Ireland. Also, the use of archaeological evidence to suggest no migration to Argyll by the Dál Riata is flawed, misunderstanding the nature of early migrations and how they might be archaeologically identified, and it is proposed that there is actually quite a lot of evidence for migration to Argyll by the Dál Riata, in the form of settlement and artefactural evidence, but that it is to be found in Ireland through the mechanism of counterstream migration, rather than in Scotland.
My paper on the ways in which Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ (2004) uses the idea of heroic suffering to intervene in contemporary religious politics and promote a militarized form of Christianity is now available in the open access journal CULTURAL ANALYSIS. Citation. Gardiner, Steven. 2013. Behold the Man: Heroic Masochism and Mel Gibson's Passion as Rite of Passage. Cultural Analysis 12: 18-43. Note the 2013 publication date reflects a delay caused by a turn-over in the editorial collective at CA. This is a wonderful journal and there are two insightful responses to my article included. The link below is to a full version of the article available both in html and pdf formats. The journal itself is distributed in hardcopy to libraries.
Amit, David and Adler, Yonatan, “The Stone Vessels,” in Ancient Jaffa from the Persian to the Byzantine Period: Kaplan Excavations (1955–1981) (ed. Orit Tsuf; Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project Series 3; Ägypten und Altes Testament 89; Münster: Zaphon), pp. 538–572.
The stone vessels presented in this chapter were uncovered during the course of numerous excavation seasons conducted by Jacob Kaplan in Jaffa, intermittently between the years 1955–1982. These vessels are grouped according to stone type, manufacturing technique, and form. Finds from all of Kaplan’s excavation areas in Jaffa have been presented together, and the provenance of each vessel has been noted. Whenever possible, the stratigraphic context within which the vessels were discovered has been presented as fully as possible. None of the vessels presented in this chapter derive from sealed loci, and the stratigraphic contexts of many of the vessels could not be ascertained with any degree of confidence from an examination of Kaplan’s excavation notes. Nevertheless, the richness of the Jaffa stone vessel assemblage, in terms of both the unusually large quantity and the variegated nature of the material, have provided important insights into the settlement history of Jaffa and the ethno-religious nature of the city’s population during the Persian, Hellenistic and Early Roman periods. A comparative study of the stone vessels from Jaffa with both published and unpublished stone vessel assemblages from other sites throughout the country has also provided a unique opportunity to reassess the historical development of the region’s stone vessel industry, which by the end of the Second Temple period had grown into a large-scale, mass-production industry. A precise understanding of these developments, catalyzed by religious and cultural concerns, is an essential requisite for any attempt to reconstruct the cultural history of Judaism during the late Second Temple period.
2000, European Journal of Entomology
ABSTRACT
2017, South Midlands Archaeology
Round-up of finds recorded with PAS in 2016 from Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire
2009
Citeseer
Invasive species are now widely regarded as the second most important threat to biodiversity, after habitat destruction. The impacts of invasive species are particu-larly severe on small island ecosystems. This paper briefly reviews the importance of such ...