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Open Access Journal: Bulletin de l'Association pour la Promotion des Recherches sur l'Age du Bronze

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Bulletin de l'Association pour la Promotion des Recherches sur l'Age du Bronze
Le bulletin de l'APRAB est imprimé depuis 2003, et se compose de deux principales parties :
- La première est consacrée aux résumés des communications tenues lors de la journée d'information annuelle (début mars). 

Les résumés des communications devront être rendus sur CD ou clé USB, le jour même de la présentation orale, à Théophane Nicolas. Il est également possible de les envoyer par internet, en fichier attaché, à aprab@free.fr, et ce jusqu'à deux semaines après la journée d'informations.

- La seconde partie du bulletin est consacrée à l'actualité de la recherche en âge du Bronze  : publications, colloques, découvertes récentes, annonces de fouilles à venir, travaux universitaires (en cours ou achevés), expositions, conférences, séminaires thématiques, etc… Tout ce qui a trait à l'âge du Bronze. Merci de nous faire part rapidement (dernier délai : janvier - février, en fonction de la date de la Journée d'information) de toutes les informations utiles, cette partie du bulletin ne pouvant exister que grâce à la participation de chacun. 

Toutes les informations utiles pour cette partie doivent être envoyées par mail (aprab@free.fr) :
•  annonce de colloques en relation avec l'âge du Bronze
•  découvertes récentes
•  annonces de fouilles à venir
•  travaux universitaires en cours ou achevés
•  publications récentes (monographies, colloques, …)
•  annonces d'expositions
•  annonces de conférences ou de séminaires thématiques
•  etc
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Bulletin n°0 - 2003
Bulletin n°1 - 2004
Bulletin n°2 - 2005
Bulletin n°3 - 2006
Bulletin n°4 - 2007
Bulletin n°5 - 2008
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Bulletin n°7 - 2010
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Bulletin n°8 - 2011
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Bulletin n°10 - 2012
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Bulletin n°11 - 2013 : SOMMAIRE...
Bulletin n°12 - 2014 : SOMMAIRE...

Open Access Journal: The Undergraduate Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology

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The Undergraduate Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology
The journal is a scholarly medium through which U of T students' work, especially work relating to anthropology, can go through the peer review process and be published. The Journal encourages academic discourse, the sharing of ideas and interests, and a high degree of respect of everyone involved.The journal is run by students for students, meaning that it strongly supports a strict peer-review process.

Vol 1 (2009)

Table of Contents

Social - Cultural Anthropology

Natalie Ellis
Emma Neubauer
Illusha Nokhrin
Corina Tudor
Nicole Dawkins
Juliana Vegh
Maria Luiza Campos
David Rusak

Archaeology

Kelly-Anne Pike
Steven Dorland
Bryan Wyshnicki
Christopher J. Melnick-MacDonald
Mark Dolynskyj

Biological - Medical Anthropology

Claire Bennett
Samantha Cassista

Open Access Journal: Complutum

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Complutum
ISSN 1131-6993
ISSN-e 1988-2327
Portada de Complutum
Complutum (ISSN 1131-6993, ISSN-e 1988-2327), revista anual hasta el número 18 y bianual a partir del número 19, fue fundada en 1991 por el profesor Martín Almagro Gorbea. La publicación responde a la necesidad de difundir a la comunidad nacional e internacional trabajos de investigación arqueológica de calidad en todos los campos, con especial incidencia en la Prehistoria de la Península ibérica. Se priman los trabajos teóricos, metodológicos e interdisciplinares y de síntesis de apartados novedosos de la investigación, sobre los informes de yacimientos, colecciones de museos o piezas arqueológicas excepcionales. La revista acepta artículos escritos desde diferentes posiciones teóricas y apoya la igualdad de género en el campo científico. Uno de los dos volúmenes anuales presenta artículos de asuntos variados, mientras que el otro es generalmente de tema monográfico con una o varias editoras a cargo de su contenido. En ambos se ofrece también una sección de recensiones y crónica científica.






























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Open Access Journal: Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos

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Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos
ISSN 1131-9070
ISSN-e 1988-2637
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos) (ISSN 1131-9070, ISSN-e 1988-2637) es una revista de periodicidad anual que continúa desde 1991 en su especialidad, juntamente con la sección la sección latina, la antigua revista Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Refundada por los Catedráticos José S. Lasso de la Vega y Luis Gil Fernández, acoge en sus páginas colaboraciones científicas españolas y extranjeras que versen sobre los ámbitos comprendidos bajo los conceptos de Filología Griega y Lingüística Indoeuropea.

 

Open Access Journal: Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos

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Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos
ISSN:1131-9062
ISSN-e: 1988-2343
Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Latinos (ISSN 1131-9062, ISSN-e 1988-2343), que realiza el Departamento de Filología Latina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa desde 1991 la antigua revista Cuadernos de Filología Clásica, consta de dos secciones: artículos y reseñas. Tiene una periodicidad semestral y acepta trabajos en todos los idiomas admitidos por la FIEC. Las contribuciones se enmarcan en el área de conocimiento de Filología Latina, referida esta no solo a la Lengua, la Literatura y los textos latinos de la época clásica, sino también a su pervivencia y toda la producción en lengua latina de épocas posteriores.

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ARCANE Project: Synchronizing Cultures and Civilizations of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Third Millennium BC

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[First posted in AWOL 10 July 2013, updated 23 October 2016]

ARCANE Project: Synchronizing Cultures and Civilizations of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Third Millennium BC
ARCANE
The ARCANE project aims at synchronising the third millennium BC regional assemblages of archaeological material in the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean, with the goal to produce a reliable relative and absolute chronology.
To reach this aim, it was decided to review the complete material culture, but to examine it under the specific point of view of chronological variation, leaving aside other historical and archaeological problems. A common methodology will be used by all regional groups, and participants will try to develop, in the course of the project, a common terminology in order to define both periods and different types of material.
The proposed methodology is based on three main points: 1) to concentrate on stratigraphically safe contexts and sealed assemblages (e.g. in situ material on floors, material inside a room sealed by the collapse of the roof, undisturbed, not reused graves) and on complete objects; 2) to analyse complete assemblages (combinations of co-occurring artefacts): these have to be studied together, in order to establish the co-occurrence of different types of objects in the different phases; and 3) not to limit the study to already published material, but to include as much as possible unpublished material, provided by the directors of excavations and their collaborators, which will be involved to different degrees in the project Work will proceed in successive steps: first at a regional level, by establishing regional periodizations, then at a supra-regional level, by synchronising the different regional periodizations. Finally, a general synchronisation will be attempted at...


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Open Access Journal: Nova Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos

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[First posted in AWOL 23 September 2014, updated  23 October 2016]

Nova Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos
ISSN: 0185-3058
Encabezado de página
Noua Tellus publica artículos y notas de investigación de carácter filológico referentes a las lenguas y literaturas griega, latina y sánscrita clásicas, además de a su tradición, así como documentos, reseñas y noticias relativas a dichos campos de estudio.

El Anuario del Centro de Estudios Clásicos Noua Tellus ofrece a sus lectoresuna útil guía de consulta, da crédito y reconocimiento a sus colaboradores, quienes la han distinguido con la generosidad de sus conocimientos, desde 1993 hasta el primer semestre de 2013.












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Open Access Journal: Studia Philologica Valentina

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Studia Philologica Valentina
ISSN: 1135-9560
Departament de Filologia Clàssica
Studia Philologica Valentina, publicación de periodicidad anual, acogerá en sus páginas colaboraciones inéditas referidas a la Filología Clásica en general y a los estudios relacionados con ésta. El criterio preferente para la publicación atenderá, sobretodo, al carácter científico del método y a los resultados.


Open Access Journal: CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica

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CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
ISSN: 1676-3521
Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em
Letras Clássicas e do Departamento de Letras Clássicas da UFRJ
CALÍOPE 20

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 19

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2011 - Número 19




CALÍOPE 18

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2011 - Número 18




CALÍOPE 17

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2007 - Número 17




CALÍOPE 16

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2007 - Número 16





CALÍOPE 15

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2006 - Número 15





CALÍOPE 14
CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 13

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2005 - Número 13





CALÍOPE 12

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2004 - Número 12




CALÍOPE 11

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
2003 - Número 11





CALÍOPE 10

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 9

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 8

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 7

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
1988 - Ano V - Número 07




CALÍOPE 6

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 5

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
1986 - Ano III - Número 05





CALÍOPE 4

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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CALÍOPE 3

CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
1985 - Ano II - Número 3




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CALÍOPE: Presença Clássica
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Open Access Book: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future

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Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future
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Mobilizing the Past is a collection of 20 articles that explore the use and impact of mobile digital technology in archaeological field practice. The detailed case studies present in this volume range from drones in the Andes to iPads at Pompeii, digital workflows in the American Southwest, and examples of how bespoke, DIY, and commercial software provide solutions and craft novel challenges for field archaeologists. The range of projects and contexts ensures that Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future is far more than a state-of-the-field manual or technical handbook. Instead, the contributors embrace the growing spirit of critique present in digital archaeology. This critical edge, backed by real projects, systems, and experiences, gives the book lasting value as both a glimpse into present practices as well as the anxieties and enthusiasm associated with the most recent generation of mobile digital tools.
This book emerged from a workshop funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities held in 2015 at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. The workshop brought together over 20 leading practitioners of digital archaeology in the U.S. for a weekend of conversation. The papers in this volume reflect the discussions at this workshop with significant additional content. Starting with an expansive introduction and concluding with a series of reflective papers, this volume illustrates how tablets, connectivity, sophisticated software, and powerful computers have transformed field practices and offer potential for a radically transformed discipline.
Edited by Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts
With additional contributions by Rebecca Bria, Bridget Buxton, William Caraher, J. Andrew Dufton, Steven J. R. Ellis, Samuel B. Fee, Shawn Fehrenbach, Eric C. Kansa, Morag M. Kersel, Marcelo Castro López, Christopher F. Motz, Brandon R. Olson, Eric E. Poehler, Adam Rabinowitz, Ted Roberts, Shawn Ross, Matthew Sayre, Adela Sobotkova, Matthew Spigelman, John Wallrodt, and Steven Wernke.

Download the book or individual chapters either from this website (below) or with full metadata at a stable URL from Digital Commons at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A paper copy of the book is available at Amazon.com.
Complete Book Download | Complete Book from Digital Commons | Purchase the Book in Paper
Table of Contents
Introduction. Mobile Computing in Archaeology: Exploring and Interpreting Current PracticesJody Michael Gordon, Erin Walcek Averett, and Derek B. CountsDownload | Chapter from Digital CommonsSupplemental Materials
1.1. Why Paperless: Technology and Changes in Archaeological Practice, 1996–2016John WallrodtDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials

1.2. Are We Ready for New (Digital) Ways to Record Archaeological Fieldwork? A Case Study from PompeiiSteven J. R. EllisDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials

1.3. Sangro Valley and the Five (Paperless) Seasons: Lessons on Building Effective Digital Recording Workflows for Archaeological FieldworkChristopher F. Motz
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1.4. DIY Digital Workflows on the Athienou Archaeological Project, CyprusJody Michael Gordon, Erin Walcek Averett, Derek B. Counts, Kyosung Koo, and Michael K. Toumazou
Download | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials

1.5. Enhancing Archaeological Data Collection and Student Learning with a Mobile Relational DatabaseRebecca Bria and Kathryn E. DeTore
Download | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials

1.6. Digital Archaeology in the Rural Andes: Problems and ProspectsMatthew Sayre
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1.7. Digital Pompeii: Dissolving the Fieldwork-Library Research DivideEric E. Poehler
Download | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials

2.1. Reflections on Custom Mobile App Development for Archaeological Data CollectionSamuel B. FeeDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
2.2. The Things We Can Do with Pictures: Image-Based Modeling and ArchaeologyBrandon R. OlsonDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
2.3 Beyond the Basemap: Multiscalar Survey through Aerial Photogrammetry in the AndesSteven A. Wernke, Gabriela Oré, Carla Hernández, Aurelio Rodríguez, Abel Traslaviña, and Giancarlo MarconeDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
2.4. An ASV (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) for Archaeology: The Pladypos at Caesarea Maritima, IsraelBridget Buxton, Jacob Sharvit, Dror Planer, Nikola Mišković, and John HaleDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
3.1. Cástulo in the 21st Century: A Test Site for a New Digital Information SystemMarcelo Castro López, Francisco Arias de Haro, Libertad Serrano Lara, Ana L. Martínez Carrillo, Manuel Serrano Araque, and Justin St. P. WalshDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
3.2. Measure Twice, Cut Once: Cooperative Deployment of a Generalized, Archaeology-Specific Field Data Collection SystemAdela Sobotkova, Shawn A. Ross, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Andrew Fairbairn, Jessica Thompson, and Parker VanValkenburghDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
3.3. CSS for Success? Some Thoughts on Adapting the Browser-Based Archaeological Recording Kit (ARK) for Mobile RecordingJ. Andrew DuftonDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
3.4. The Development of the PaleoWay Digital Workflows in the Context of Archaeological ConsultingMatthew Spigelman, Ted Roberts, and Shawn FehrenbachDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
4.1. Slow Archaeology: Technology, Efficiency, and Archaeological WorkWilliam CaraherDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
4.2. Click Here to Save the PastEric C. KansaDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
5.1. Response: Living a Semi-digital Kinda LifeMorag M. KerselDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
5.2. Response: Mobilizing (Ourselves) for a Critical Digital ArchaeologyAdam RabinowitzDownload | Chapter from Digital Commons | Supplemental Materials
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Some open access content that complements this book:
J. Huggett, “Challenging Digital Archaeology.” Open Archaeology 1 (2015): 79-85.
J. Huggett, “A Manifesto for an Introspective Digital Archaeology,” Open Archaeology 1 (2015): 86-95.
Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall, eds. Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration. Cotsen Digital Archaeology 1. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology 2011. 
Brandon R. Olson and William R. Caraher, Visions of Substance: 3D Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota 2015.
Christopher H. Roosevelt, Peter Cobb, Emanuel Moss, Brandon R. Olson & Sinan Ünlüsoy, “Excavation is Destruction Digitization: Advances in Archaeological Practice,”Journal of Field Archaeology 40.3 (2015), 325-346.

Open Access Journal: Thamyris, nova series: Revista de Didáctica de Cultura Clásica, Griego y Latín

Ancient Places in Today's Library: Pleiades URIs and MARC

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Ancient Places in Today's Library: Pleiades URIs and MARC 
By Gabriel McKee
10/24/2016 
In September, the ISAW Library submitted a proposal to the Library of Congress to add the Pleiades gazetteer to its list of authorized sources for subject heading terms. That same month the proposal was accepted, and Pleiades was entered into the official list and assigned an identifying code. With this code, place names from Pleiades can now be entered into library catalog records.
Though this may seem like a somewhat arcane bit of technical news, it’s actually a big step forward for both Pleiades and the role of libraries in the Linked Open Data movement. The ability to use Pleiades names in subject headings is useful for keyword searching, as it allows us to provide access to both the ancient and modern names of some locations. Under the cataloging rules used by American academic libraries, inhabited places are cataloged using their modern names. For instance, the latest ISAW publication, Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna, is assigned the LC geographic heading İzmir (Turkey), the modern name of the city. Since Pleiades is now a recognized source of authoritative name data, we can now add to this book's record a geographic heading for the city’s Pleaides heading, which records not only one ancient name, but three: Naulochon/Smyrna/Palaia Smyrna
But additional name access is not all that this change allows.
recent change to MARC (MAchine-Readable Cataloging)—the standard format in which library catalog records are coded—allows for the entry of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) in subject headings. URIs—unique character strings used to identify a resource or thing—are one of the foundational principles behind Linked Data. Though you may not have heard of URIs, you probably use them every day—web URLs are a form of URI, and due to their utility and ubiquity most URIs are now structured in HTTP format and point to an online location. Though the names of places in Pleiades are useful, it is the unchanging URIs that Pleiades associates with those names and places that truly distinguish it as a 21st-century linked data resource. By encoding the URI for Smyrna (https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550771) in the metadata for a resource about that place, we create a connection between the resource, the conceptual place, and other resources that also connect to it. The Pleiades page in turn contains references to additional resources about the place in multiple periods. The metadata model known as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) describes individual information resources—from books to websites to physical artifacts—in three-part units of information (subject : predicate : object), called triples, that connect URIs to one another semantically, representing each resource as a part of web of interconnected information. Each portion of a triple is represented by a URI. For example:

RDF uses the relationships, represented by the links used above, to link resources to each other. A linked data library catalog or other database would use these links to draw connections between related resources. In the example above, a user would be able to easily navigate from Graffiti from the Basilica to Letter to the Philippians, other works by Polycarp, and other works concerning Smyrna. This would enhance the user's ability to discover information, and could highlight unexpected connections between different resources.
The use of URIs in library cataloging is relatively new, but has the power to transform the usefulness of cataloging and cataloging metadata. The Library of Congress is currently at work on the BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework) Initiative, an entirely new framework for resource cataloging that is intended to replace MARC. Though it is not likely to be implemented on a large scale for several years, BIBFRAME is built entirely on linked data principles, and will rely on URIs for connecting users to information. In preparation for this, the controlled vocabularies used for subjects and names are beginning to shift to a URI-based model.
The ISAW Library is ready to be an active agent in that conceptual shift. Beginning this semester, we will be adding Pleiades headings and URIs to many of our records for new materials. We are already beginning to think about different uses for this metadata, including the creation of browsable maps of our collection and the automatic updating of Pleiades pages with information about new resources that link to them. And we will also work to expand and enhance Pleiades itself, creating new Pleiades IDs for places represented in our collection but not yet in the gazetteer, particularly in Central Asia and Ancient China.
For more information about this project, please email or .

The Society for Classical Studies Launches New Website Front Page, Blog, and YouTube Channel

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The Society for Classical Studies Launches New Website Front Page, Blog, and YouTube Channel
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The Society for Classical Studies is proud to announce many new additions to our online presence.
First is the reinvigoration of the SCS blog, which was led by the Communications Committee and its current chair, Chris Francese. Along with the blog comes a new front page to our website, which will feature the Blog content as well as Amphora articles. There will be a new blog article every week, with new Amphora content on the way.
We are also happy to showcase our YouTube channel, a new outreach vehicle for people to find out what it is we do and what Classics is about. The channel will mainly feature interviews with people touched by Classics in some way, but will also showcase any video we collect from conferences or other SCS events. A new video will come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and you can watch the first one here.
If you want to write a piece for the Blog or be interviewed for the channel please contact erik.shell@nyu.edu.

Open Access Archaeology Fund

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Because it is Open Access Week, and because Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service are both 20 years old AWOL urges you to support the Open Access Archaeology Fund:

Open Access Archaeology Fund
By giving to the Open Access Archaeology Fund you help to reduce the barriers to open archaeological research and advance knowledge of our shared human past.
 
To mark our shared 20th anniversary year, Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have combined forces to launch the Open Access Archaeology Fund, with the specific aim of supporting the publishing and archiving costs of researchers who have no means of institutional support. We are asking you to support our efforts by pledging a recurring or single gift.

We are grateful for all gifts and to say thank you, everyone who donates over £25 will receive a token of our appreciation - one of our highly desirable red USB trowels. A limited number of special edition orange and purple trowels are also available for those who make donations of between £50-£74.99 (orange) and £75 and over (purple).


A row of coloured USB trowels OUSB trowels
Please allow at least 4 weeks for delivery of your trowel.

Fund allocation

Funds will be prioritised to those without means of institutional support, namely early career researchers and independent scholars who deposit an archive with ADS or who have been accepted for publication in Internet Archaeology. As the Fund develops, we will publish on this page the total raised and a list of the articles and archives assisted by your generosity.

Thank you for your support.

David Kennedy's 'Kites in Arabia' iBook now free to download

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Publications - 'Kites in Arabia' iBook now free to download
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Back in 2014 we launched an iBook that brought together a lot of our research on Kites (see our blog http://www.apaame.org/2014/09/publications-kites-in-arabia-ibook.html). 

The iBook is now FREE TO DOWNLOAD!

You may also be interested in the following:
The Global Kites Project: http://www.globalkites.fr/
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy Special Issue Desert Kites - Old Structures, New Research: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.2015.26.issue-2/issuetoc (Pay Wall)

You can browse thousands of photographs of Kites from Jordan in our archive.

 

 

Description

In this book, Professor David Kennedy explores all aspects of kites and related structures from their basic function to more elaborate arrays of kites. Together with examples and case studies, he explores all aspects of these intriguing structures and the methods being employed to better understand them. In particular, the use of aerial archeology techniques from airborne photography in the early days to today’s use of Google Earth and similar tools.

Prior to the aerial crossing of the Jordanian desert and lava fields of the early 20th Century, little was known in the Western world of the structures built from the basalt boulders which became known as kites. News of these structures were published in the journal Antiquity and speculation began on their purpose, composition and the various styles of structure which were being observed. Kites are formed from walls built from these boulders and form a head or enclosure and a run of walls which flow out for up to more than a kilometre.

Open Access Journal: Humanitas

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Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) News

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RIC 9 published to OCRE
RIC volume 9 has been published to Online Coinage of the Roman Empire. This represents about 1,700 types and 3,200 subtypes. In total, there are now more than 43,000 Roman Imperial coin types in OCRE, spread over half a millennium from Augustus to Zeno. This was a huge undertaking with many collaborators from the ANS and DAI, as well as contributors of data from more than a dozen American and European cultural heritage institutions. Without generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we may never have completed this project, which will officially come to a close in December. Since publishing the types to OCRE yesterday, I have begun the process of harvesting relevant coins from partner institutions. The British Museum alone has contributed an additional 11,600 RIC 9 coins to OCRE, and the total number of physical specimens linked into the project stands around 93,000. We hope to surpass 100,000 when the ANS and Fitzwilliam Museum coins are added soon.

Despite the official "end" of the project (with respect to meeting the specifications of the original NEH grant application), the project will continue to evolve in a variety of ways. We anticipate aggregating content from more partners, especially from the archaeological community. There are more than 200,000 Roman Imperial coins in the Portable Antiquities Scheme, but so far barely over 300 have been linked to OCRE URIs. I am continuing to build more sophisticated analysis and visualization interfaces. These advancements have been implemented directly in Nomisma.org, but I anticipate porting these code updates into OCRE and various other Numishare-based coin type projects. We also plan to unveil two new features by the end of this year: an intuitive coin type identification interface that non-specialists (collectors or archaeologists working in the field) might use to identity coins, and a faceted search function for architecture depicted on Roman coinage (which extends into Republican coins in CRRO).

While the NEH funding was instrumental in the development of OCRE specifically, the open source code and the workflows we developed for this project have had an impact on our ability to publish similar online type corpora. In 2015, we saw the release of Coinage of the Roman Republic Online and PELLA. Since the multilingual and visualization functionality are inherent to Numishare, our other projects benefit from the funding the NEH invested directly into OCRE. One of these, obviously, is the Egyptian National Library collection of Islamic coinage, which is available in both English and Arabic
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Open Access Journal: Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies

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[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2009. Updated 26 October  2016]

Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
ISSN: 1097-3702
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Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies is an electronic journal dedicated to the study of the Syriac tradition, published semi-annually (in January and July) by Beth Mardutho. Published since 1998, Hugoye seeks to offer the best scholarship available in the field of Syriac studies.
The word Hugoye, the plural form of Hugoyo, derives from the root hg' meaning 'to think, meditate, study'. Hugoyo itself means 'study, meditation'. In modern times, the term has been applied for academic studies; hence, Hugoye Suryoye translates as 'Syriac Studies'.
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Homer and the Papyri

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 [First posted in AWOL 16 May 2011, updated 27 October 2016]

Homer and the Papyri

HOMER & THE PAPYRI

Homer and the Papyri, first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is here published in a second electronic edition. The edition consists of a database of Homeric papyri published prior to the year 2004.

Homer & the Papyri Editors and Advisors

Editor in Chief: Gregory Nagy, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies

Editor Emeritus: Dana F. Sutton, The University of California, Irvine

A note to users about the Homer and the Papyri database

The database archived here was created in 2002 by Michael Jones, with the cooperation and supervision of the Stoa Consortium, edited at that time by Anne Mahoney and Ross Scaife. The database is now more than a decade old and has not been updated since 2003. Instead, complete editions of Homeric papyri are now being published as part of the Homer Multitext project. What follows is an overview of the current functionality of the two major types of searches available in this archived version of Homer and the Papyri.

Searching for variants: Users may search for variants by specifying Iliad or Odyssey, book number, or a particular witness, as described on the Homer and the Papyri Help page and in the Introduction.

Searching and generating lists of papyrus witnesses: Lists of Homeric papyri (regardless of whether or not they contain variants) can be generated by the database for the Iliad and Odyssey by simply choosing the title and selecting the "search witnesses" button. This list cannot be further specified. 
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Read the Introduction to the Previous Web-based Edition of Homer and the Papyri

Read the Letter from Gregory Nagy to Dana Sutton, which created the present edition of Homer and the Papyri
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How to Contribute
Homer and the Papyri is now part of the Homer Multitext. If you would be interested in contributing XML editions of Homeric papyri to the project, please contact the project editors, Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott. All contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and credited to their editor(s).

Open Access Classical Studies Books from Verlag C.H.Beck

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[First posted in AWOL 17 June 2016, updated 27 October 2016]

Classical Studies Books from Verlag C.H.Beck in Open Edition
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Der Verlag C.H.Beck, gegründet im Jahr 1763, zählt zu den großen und traditionsreichen Namen im deutschen Verlagswesen. Sein Programm umfasst mehr als 9.000 lieferbare Titel und 70 Zeitschriften zu unterschiedlichsten Themen aus den Bereichen Recht, Geschichte, Theologie, Altertums¬wissenschaften, Literaturgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte, Naturwissenschaften und Wirtschaft. Mit einer jährlichen Produktion von bis zu 1.500 Neuerscheinungen und mehr als 14.000 Autoren rangiert der Verlag auch quantitativ unter den großen deutschen Buch- und Zeitschriftenverlagen. Der Hauptsitz des Verlags ist in München, Dependancen befinden sich in Warschau, Prag, Basel, Bukarest und Bratislava. Seit den späten 1980er Jahren erweitert C.H.Beck seine Publikationstätigkeit um den Bereich des elektronischen Publizierens.
In dieser Schriftenreihe werden unterschiedliche Themen der Altertumswissenschaften, vor allem aus dem Bereich der Klassischen Philologie, aber auch der Alten Geschichte, Philosophie und der Geschichte des Faches behandelt.
Begründet wurde die Reihe 1951. Sie wird derzeit von Eckard Lefèvre und Gustav Adolf Seeck in Verbindung mit Thomas Baier und Dieter Timpe herausgegeben. Aktuell sind 148 Bände erschienen (Stand Mai 2014), die zum großen Teil noch lieferbar sind.

Die Veröffentlichungen der papyrologisch-rechtshistorischen Reihe, die 1915 von Leopold Wenger begründet wurde, behandeln die Themen Recht, Politik, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung in antiken Kulturen, insbesondere in ptolemäischer und hellenistischer Zeit. Insgesamt wurden bislang 109 Bände dieser Zeitschriftenreihe veröffentlicht (Stand Mai 2014), wovon ein Großteil noch lieferbar ist.
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