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Open Access Journal: Analecta Romana Instituti Danici

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[First posted in AWOL 15 March 2010. Updated 28 July 2014]

Analecta Romana Instituti Danici
P-ISSN: 0066-1392
E-ISSN: 2035-2506
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Analecta Romana Instituti Danici (ARID) publicerer studier indenfor Instituttets hovedforskningsområder: humanistiske studier (f. eks. antikhistorie, arkæologi kunsthistorie, historie, litteratur, filologi), billedkunst og arkitektur. Siden 2008 udkommer tidskriftet både i en papir- og en digital udgave.
Analecta Romana Instituti Danici (ARID) publishes studies within the main range of the Academy's research activities: the humanities (e.g. ancient history, archaeology, art history, history, literature, philology), the fine arts and architecture. Since 2008 the journal is published both on paper and on-line.
La rivista Analecta Romana Instituti Danici (ARID) pubblica studi nell'ambito dei settori principali di indagine dell'Accademia di Danimarca: la ricerca umanistica (storia antica, archeologia, storia dell'arte, storia, letteratura, filologia), le arti figurative e l'architettura. A cominciare da 2008 ANALECTA è pubblicata anche online.
Indhold/Contents:
1-19602-19623-19654-19675-1969
6-19717-19748-19779-198010-1981
11-198212-198313-198414-198515-1986
16-198717/18-1988/919-199020-199221-1993
22-199423-199624-199725-199826-1999
27-200128-200229-200330-200431-2005
32-2006
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New Open Access Journal: Indo-European Linguistics

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Indo-European Linguistics
ISSN: 2212-5884
E-ISSN: 2212-5892 
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The peer-reviewed journal Indo-European Linguistics (IEL) is devoted to the study of the ancient and medieval Indo-European languages from the perspective of modern theoretical linguistics. It provides a venue for synchronic and diachronic linguistic studies of the Indo-European languages and the Indo-European family as a whole within any theoretically informed or analytical framework. It also welcomes typological investigations, especially those which make use of cross-linguistic data, including that from non-Indo-European languages, as well as research which draws upon the findings of language acquisition, cognitive science, variationist sociolinguistics, and language contact.

Friends of ASOR Podcasts

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Friends of ASOR Podcasts
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The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) is a non-profit 501 (c)3 organization that supports and encourages the study of the cultures and history of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present. ASOR is apolitical and has no religious affiliation.

We were founded in 1900 by twenty one institutions—including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia. Over a century later, ASOR has more than 90 consortium institutions, including universities, seminaries, museums, foundations, and libraries. In addition, we have more than 1,550 individual members.

ASOR communicates news of the latest research findings in our publications, through lectures at the Annual Meeting, and our overseas institutes host scholars working in the Middle East. ASOR's book series and journals, such as Near Eastern Archaeology and the Bulletin of ASOR, are intended for both a lay audience and specialist archaeologists, historians, and Biblical scholars. ASOR's Annual Meeting brings together scholars from around the world to present their latest findings and discuss their research. Our independent overseas institutes in Cyprus, Israel, and Jordan facilitate research in the field by students and scholars. Fellowship programs are available to provide funds for work at these institutes as well as for Mesopotamian studies and student travel to the Annual Meeting.


Latinometer

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Latinometer
A Latinometer™ gives you a reading on how others read you. Insert your prose into the slot below and find out!

20% and below: You see the world in concrete terms
20% to 35%: You sound educated
35% to 60%: You sound pretentious
60% and above: You are probably lying

If you do not like the way you sound, you can change!

Archaeopress: Open Access

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Archaeopress: Open Access
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Open Access content is available to view online or you can download to your chosen device. All content is in PDF format. You are welcome to share Open Access content amongst your colleagues but please be sure to cite it fully and accurately. To learn more about publishing in Archaeopress Open Access please contact archaeo@archaeopress.com.
Archaeopress Archaeology


Time Periods

Bronze Age and Iron Age
Classical and Hellenistic
Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
Neolithic / Chalcolithic
Palaeolithic / Mesolithic
Prehistory (general titles only)
Roman


Geographical Areas

Africa
Arabia
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
British Isles
Central and Eastern Europe
Central and South America and the Caribbean
Egypt and Sudan
Far East
Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
Levant / Near East
Mediterranean
North America
Western Europe and Britain
 

Open Access Journal: Zephyrus

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Zephyrus
ISSN: 0514-7336
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ZEPHYRVS es una Revista científica internacional de PREHISTORIA y ARQUEOLOGÍA, editada por la Universidad de Salamanca. ZEPHYRVS aparece semestralmente. Las secciones de ARTÍCULOS, VARIA y NOTAS CRÍTICAS/RESEÑAS publican, respectivamente, trabajos originales de investigación, informaciones científicas novedosas o hallazgos importantes, producidos en diversas partes del mundo, y estados de la cuestión o recensiones de monografías de calidad, seleccionadas entre aquellas obras recibidas en la Redacción de la Revista.
See the full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) and EAGLE News

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Attic Inscriptions Online and EAGLE News:
Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) and EAGLE are delighted to announce the launch, on Tuesday 29th July, of a package of new English translations, supporting papers and upgrades to AIO:
1. 153 new translations (by Stephen Lambert, P. J. Rhodes, Feyo Schuddeboom and Lina van’t Wout).
From the late-5th cent. BC:
(a) sacrificial calendar of Thorikos
(b) Athenian decree on the administration of the property of Kodros, Neleus and Basile (IG I84)
(c) accounts of payments from the treasury of Athena, 410-407? BC (IG I3 375 and 377, the “Choiseul marble” in the Louvre, Paris)
B. A selection of 27 important Athenian laws and decrees of 403-353 BC
C. A newly published inscription of ca. 340-325 BC honouring the historian of Attica, Phanodemos
D. The corpus of Athenian decrees of 229/8-198/7 BC, 121 in total, together with brief historical notes (IG II3 1, 1135-1255)
This brings the total number of translations on the site to 469.
2. Two new AIO Papers (4 and 5) and a revised version of AIO Paper no. 1. These discuss particular inscriptions, or groups of inscriptions, in greater detail:
S. D. Lambert, Notes on Inscriptions of the Marathonian Tetrapolis. AIO Papers 1.
S. D. Lambert, Inscribed Athenian Decrees of 229/8-198/7 BC (IG II3 1, 1135-1255). AIO Papers 4.
S. D. Lambert, Accounts of Payments from the Treasury of Athena in 410-407 ? BC (IG II3 375 and 377)
3. Improvements to translations and metadata already on the site
4. Upgrades, including:
(a) responsive design, which will facilitate use of the site with tablets and mobile phones and the addition of fuller notes to the translations
(b) XML and JSON outputs and API
(c) numerous other improvements to site design and functions.

Open Access Journal: Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science

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[First posted in AWOL 15 October 2009. Most recently updated30 July 2014]

Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science
Aestimatio provides critical, timely assessments of books published in the history of what was called science from antiquity up to the early modern period in cultures ranging from Spain to India, and from Africa to northern Europe. The aim is to allow reviewers the opportunity to engage critically both the results of research in the history of science and how these results are obtained.

Opinions des anciens philosophes - Opinions of ancient philosophers

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Opinions des anciens philosophes - Opinions of ancient philosophers
Cette collection de témoignages vise à rassembler au sein d’une base de données informatique le texte des sources relatives aux philosophes dits présocratiques ou préplatoniciens.

Dans un premier temps, la collecte des témoignages ne sera cependant systématique que pour les philosophes Milésiens (Thalès, Anaximandre, Anaximène) et Eléates (Xénophane, Parménide, Zénon, Mélissos). Cette limitation pratique tient au caractère de « prototype » de cette base de données, qui reste en voie d’élaboration tant pour ce qui concerne les entrées de textes que les formes de leur indexation. Nous la publions seulement à titre de proposition, soumise à la critique.

Une autre partie de ce projet consistant à réunir les principaux textes anciens relevant de la doxographie systématique (qu’il s’agisse d’œuvres complètes, ou d’extraits), des philosophes n’appartenant pas à la période dite présocratique trouvent également droit de cité dans cette base, bien qu’il ne soit aucunement question pour le moment de chercher à réunir exhaustivement les sources les concernant...


This collection of testimonies aims at collecting in a database the text of the sources related to the so-called presocratic philosophers.

This collection of testimonies has been at first limited to Milesian (Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes) and Eleatic philosophers (Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus). This limitation was only a practical one. This web site, and the database attached to it, is only to be considered as a prototype of what an exhaustive collection of testimonies related to presocratic philosophers should look like. The work has not to be considered as a finished one : indexations, at many levels, have not been completed, texts are still lacking, etc.

Any remark or critical comment will be appreciated...



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Radio-Past: Radiography of the past

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Radio-Past: Radiography of the past
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The RADIO-PAST Project

The project, which was launched April 1st 2009, will last 48 months and aims at developing so-called “open laboratories for research and experimentation”, where all expertises convey, analysis, and technical activities are performed, experimental techniques and new data processing tested, and formation activities are held. The place chosen for the principal “open laboratory” is the archaeological site of Ammaia in Portugal. Here, the Coordinator Institution (University of Evora) pilots an archaeo-topographical project named “Cidade de Ammaia”, centred around a deserted Roman town. This research is linked to several reference projects, mainly on Roman urban sites in Italy, where several of the partners are active since many years.

The website

This website wants to take Radio-Past online, by offering up-to-date and elaborated information on the aims of the project, the research techniques applied, the partners involved, and the results gained. Using the navigation area above, it is possible to address these specific project topics. Please, feel also free to comment on this Radio-Past project, as your input can be of great value to all the researchers currently involved. As frequently as possible, this site will be updated with more texts, and downloadable maps and pictures.

Open Access Journal: Illinois Classical Studies

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 [First posted in AWOL 11 July 2009. Updated 31 July 2014]

Illinois Classical Studies
ISSN: 0363-1923
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Illinois Classical Studies was founded in 1976 by Miroslav Marcovich, Head of the Department of the Classics (1973-77) at the University of Illinois. Professor Marcovich served as editor from 1976-82 and 1988-92. Professors J. K. Newman (1983-87), David Sansone (1992-2000), Gerald M. Browne (2001-2003), and Danuta Shanzer (2004-2011) were subsequent editors of the journal. ICS publishes original research on a variety of topics related to the Classics, in all areas of Classical Philology and its ancillary disciplines, such as Greek and Latin literature, history, archaeology, epigraphy, papyrology, patristics, the history of Classical scholarship, the reception of Classics in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and beyond. ICS has also published thematic volumes on topics such as Greek Philosophy, Euripidean tragedy, Latin poetry, and Byzantium.
IDEALS provides open access to volumes 1 (1976) - 23 (1998) of Illinois Classical Studies (ISSN 0363-1923). Information about current issues and subscriptions can be found at the University of Illinois Press at http://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ics.html.

Open Access Journal: Acta Tulliana (formerly Gazette Tulliana)

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Acta Tulliana (formerly Gazette Tulliana)
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Gazetteand Acta Tulliana

For Cicero’s Friends, Tulliana.eu provides a Gazette, which is online, free and open for all, and the Acta Tulliana, a bimonthly report. 

Gazette

Our Gazette, published as a .pdf file, is more a newsletter than an academic review. Papers and notes written by scientific members are not a paid work, and are monitored by the scientific editor, Andrea Balbo.
The main purpose of the Gazette is:
  • a stage for information: open-ed, notes about our organization and the site, books and issues, schedules for conferences coming soon, announcements about ongoing projects or in the next future, etc.
  • a spot for ideas and debates: curiosities and interviews from all points of views (philology, major texts, history, philosophy, rhetorics, linguistics, iconography, and more)
  • an open place: learning and teaching, personal interest ("My Cicero") etc.
The Gazette is published in the three official languages of Tulliana.eu  and in Spanish (in the section Documents > Hispanica).

01. Gazette 2009, 1 :
Français - English - Italiano - Español





Open Access Journal: Nummus: numismática, medalhística, arqueologia

Latest Release of all EpiDoc code

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Latest Release of all EpiDoc code
EpiDoc is an international, collaborative effort that provides guidelines and tools for encoding scholarly and educational editions of ancient documents. It uses a subset of the Text Encoding Initiative's standard for the representation of texts in digital form and was developed initially for the publication of digital editions of ancient inscriptions (e.g. Inscriptions of Aphrodisias, Vindolanda Tablets). Its domain has expanded to include the publication of papyri and manuscripts (e.g. Papyri.info). It addresses not only the transcription and editorial treatment of texts themselves, but also the history and materiality of the objects on which the texts appear (i.e., manuscripts, monuments, tablets, papyri, and other text-bearing objects).

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Mappable places in Pleiades for Google Earth


The image bank HeidICON

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The image bank HeidICON


The image  bank HeidICON is a valuable gratis pictorial resource for students and professionals alike. Since inception of the image pools generated by the field operations of Heidelberg University, it has grown rapidly. HeidICON includes images surrounding the Heidelberg field-work in South Asia, Yemen, Oman and most recently, Tigray, Ethiopia. These are only a small part of this data archive.

You can call up HeidICON with your browser in English language and log in as a guest. Most of the images are unpublished, or are referenced to published works. In the status row at the top of the page you can select which image pool you desire. You can download the images you desire or just browse.


HeidICON has a browser which enables you to view the images 20 at one time.
You can view up to 1000 images by means of scrolling up or down.
The images are indexed for quick searches.

HeidICON is the solution to publish numerous (6000+) archaeological images which
otherwise would never see the light of day.


Highlights of the collection include all excavated sculpture from Zafar/Yemen and
excavated field photos from the excavation at Izki, Oman

Languages and Cultures of the Near East
& University Library
Heidelberg University
20.07.2014
contact: effinger@ub.uni-heidelberg.de
paul.yule@t-online.de
heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/




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Open Osteological Data - Two Imperial Roman Cemetery Populations

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Open Osteological Data - Two Imperial Roman Cemetery Populations


I defended my dissertation, Migration and Mobility in Imperial Rome, four years ago.  Because of my interest in open access and because my NSF grant required a data access statement, I've been thinking for four years about how best to open up all the data I collected.

At first, I was worried about opening up the data because I wanted to get a job.

I got a job in 2012 at the University of West Florida.  

Roman Osteology Database Screenshot
Then I worried about opening up the data because I needed to publish and get tenure, but growing interest in open data among scholars made me conflicted.  So I compromised: I posted all published isotope data as bare-bones Excel files.  But divorcing these data from their larger context didn't sit well with me.

I'm entering my third year at UWF, and I see no reason to hold back the database any longer.  While I'm still a ways from making my tenure case, I've been steadily publishing the plethora of data I generated during my dissertation fieldwork, so I feel confident in my ability to research, analyze, and write on bioarchaeology.  

More importantly, though, I think I'm just done with this project.  

That's not to say there isn't more to write or that there aren't more data to analyze or that I'm not still interested in this time and place.  There's a ton of dental and skeletal pathology data, for example, that I haven't tackled.  But I want to move on to other projects, and at this point I worry that I'm becoming too myopic.  Honestly, Imperial Rome tends to do that -- it sucks you in, making you think it is, was, and ever will be the most important city in the world full of the most important people in history.  Roman imperialism is calling out for more diverse perspectives, though.  The rise in osteological analysis of Romano-British cemeteries, for example, is created a multifaceted Empire.  And new multidisciplinary studies in the Transatlantic slave trade are raising the question of potential comparative work with slavery in the Roman world.  I still love answering questions about population interaction in the past, but I might try focusing that interest on times and places like Medieval Berlin, Greco-Roman Italy, or Pre-Emancipation Southeast U.S.  Still, I am working on skeletons from various time periods at Gabii, so I haven't abandoned Roman bioarchaeology.  And I might yet publish dental pathology data (or enlist a grad student to do it for a thesis)...

At any rate, you can find my Access database on GitHub at this link.  Please use it if you're interested in comparative data sets, if you want to check my work, if you disagree with my interpretations, or if you just like reading databases.  I only ask that you credit me appropriately.  (If you want to collaborate further for a publication, though, I'm happy to do that as well.)

Open Access Journal: Mathal/Mashal: Journal of Islamic and Judaic Multidisciplinary Studies

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Mathal/Mashal: Journal of Islamic and Judaic Multidisciplinary Studies
ISSN: 2168-538X
Mathal/Mashal: Journal of Islamic and Judaic Multidisciplinary Studies  (ISSN forthcoming) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to  scholarly discussion of topics present in the Islamic and Jewish  traditions, cultures, and practices especially in the area where  thematic and doctrinal aspects are common.


The journal approaches these complex issues  through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary lenses. There are many  topics that lend themselves to comparative studies but we will publish  papers that deal with any of the topics in either of the traditions.  Topics that can be discussed include Islamic and Jewish law,  socio-economic and political history of the Islamic and Jewish  communities, social and religious institutions, Tafsir and Rabbinic  traditions, Midrash and/or Islamic and Jewish mysticism.

Feed Aggregators for Ancient Studies

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[originally posted 1/7/09, most recently updated 2 August 2014]

Tom Elliott has built a set of news feed aggregators for topics relating to Ancient Studies. Each of these keeps track of a variety of websites, blogs, and other entities, and informs you when any of them is updated or added to. Look at the Atlantides: Feed Aggregators for Ancient Studies page, or choose one of them from the list below:

Other feed aggregators

      •  archaeoinaction.info
        • archaeoinaction.info is a dynamic Web and RSS Feeds Directory dedicated to the Open Movement within the Humanities, and especially in those of Archaeology and History.
          This smart Open service, that in real time aggregates and connects info about Openness from across the web, aims to: put everything in a context via an automated system of tagging, make this context searchable via an advanced search engine, and available to users via subscription to different XML Feeds.
      •  Archaeoweb
        • From Hembo Pagi: "As Google Reader is about to disappear soon I thought that I should set up a small website for myself where i can follow all the archaeology and technology related blogs. So I did  http://archaeoweb.net/. I have collected about 40 blogs at the moment. If you run a blog and wish to share it with me (and rest of the world) please submit it via the form on the page."
      • Digital Data Interest Group News Feed
        • This feed aggregates sources of interest to professional archaeologists concerned with the creation, use, dissemination and preservation of digital content. Eric Kansa created this feed on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology's (SAA) Digital Data Interest Group (DDIG). IMPORTANT NOTE: The content expressed on this feed are not those of SAA. Links contained on this feed do not constitute endorsement of those linked sites.
      Do you use or know of other feed aggregators useful for ancient world studies? Let me know!

      Ur Region Archaeology Project

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      Ur Region Archaeology Project
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      The Ur Archaeology Project has been formed to investigate an ancient settlement in southern Iraq, the birthplace of civilization. It combines up-to-date British practice with the excellent local knowledge of Iraqi experts. The directors worked in Iraq up until the later years of Saddam’s rule, when operating conditions finally became impossible, and are delighted to be back.

      Our institutional backing comes from Iraq’s State Board for Antiquities and Heritage, the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and the University of Manchester.

      Members of our team have extensive experience in British archaeology, and most have also worked in Middle Eastern countries, and so are familiar with the conditions and materials we are dealing with.

      Experts in environmental studies are drawn from the Universities of York and Liverpool as well as Manchester, giving us access to a wealth of experience in collection, analysis and interpretation.
      Field-work at our chosen site, Tell Khaiber, is carried out annually each spring, followed by post-excavation, research and publication work over the rest of the year.

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