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Kinds of Antiquity Selected AbstractsPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF ROMAN LEAD-GLAZED POTTERY AND ITS CONTINUANCE INTO LATE ANTIQUITYARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 5 2010M. S. WALTON A broad selection of Roman lead-glazed pottery dating from the first century ad through the fifth century ad was studied to establish locations of workshops and to address their technology of production. The ceramic bodies were analysed by ICP,AES. In addition, lead isotope analysis was undertaken on a selection of glazes. These findings suggested that there were several regions responsible for the production of lead-glazed ceramics in the western Roman world, including central Gaul, Italy and, probably, Serbia and Romania. Using the body compositions as a starting point, the glazing techniques employed by each of the potential workshops were examined using electron probe microanalysis. It was determined that there were two primary methods of glazing. The first method used lead oxide by itself applied to non-calcareous clay bodies, and the second method used a lead oxide-plus-quartz mixture applied to calcareous clay bodies. Based on these data for clay composition and glazing method, transfer of technology from the Hellenistic east to the western Roman world was proposed. Likewise, the inheritance of lead-glazing technology into late antiquity was established by making comparisons to lead-glazed ceramics dating to the seventh to ninth centuries from Italy, the Byzantine world and Tang Dynasty China. [source] THE PIEDMONT WHITE MARBLES USED IN ANTIQUITY: AN ARCHAEOMETRIC DISTINCTION INFERRED BY A MINERO-PETROGRAPHIC AND C,O STABLE ISOTOPE STUDY*ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 6 2009A. BORGHI The metamorphic rocks outcropping in the Western Alps are characterized by a great variety of white marbles, which have been poorly studied in the archaeometric field even though they have been used since antiquity. Typical examples are the Arc of August of Roman times in Susa (Piedmont, Italy) and lots of monuments and historical buildings of Turin (Italy). A multi-analytical approach based on petrographic (optical and scanning electron microscopy), electron microprobe and stable isotope analysis of Piedmont white marbles has been performed in order to carry out a detailed description, summarizing their main microtextural, mineralogical and isotopic features. Eight historical Piedmont marbles have been sampled from well-known quarry sites belonging to different metamorphic geological units of the Western Alps (Ornavasso, Crevola, Pont Canavese, Foresto, Chianocco, Prali, Brossasco and Garessio marbles). Their different metamorphic conditions, ages and structural evolution allowed us to draw a discriminative flowchart based on microscopic and minero-chemical data. [source] Antiquities under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War.MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2010By Lawrence Rothfield No abstract is available for this article. [source] Review article: The dangers of polemic: Is ritual still an interesting topic of historical study?EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 4 2002Geoffrey Koziol Philippe Buc, The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Gerd Althoff, Spielregeln der Politik im Mittelalter: Kommunikation in Frieden und Fehde. Frans Theuws and Janet L. Nelson (eds). Rituals of Power from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Joëlle Rollo-Koster (ed), Medieval and Early Modern Rituals: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan. [source] Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society by David d'Avray Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience, AD 800,1200 edited by Lynda Garland Household, Women and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2007E. M. C. VAN HOUTS First page of article [source] Tracking ,Same,Sex Love' from Antiquity to the Present in South AsiaGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2002Rosemary Marangoly George This essay focuses on the anthology Same,Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Unlike many other recently published, celebratory ,gay anthologies', this book contributes to ongoing scholarly work on specific same,sex erotic practices and relations in historical and cultural context. We examine issues relevant to this anthology and other such projects: the use of ,love' and ,same,sex' as (stable) signifiers over centuries; the validity of interpreting social reality through literary texts from the period; the difficulties of locating ,love' in severely hierarchical, even slave,owning, societies; and the implications of using such anthologies in the classroom. [source] Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination 1820,1915JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2005Ben W. Fallaw [source] ANTHROPOS AND ETHICS Categories of Inquiry and Procedures of ComparisonJOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS, Issue 2 2005Thomas A. Lewis ABSTRACT Building on influential work in virtue ethics, this collection of essays examines the categories of self, person, and anthropology as foci for comparative analysis. The papers unite reflections on theory and method with descriptive work that addresses thinkers from the modern West, Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity, early China, and other settings. The introduction sets out central methodological issues that are subsequently taken up in each essay, including the origin of the categories through which comparison proceeds, the status of these categories in the process of comparison, and the goals of comparison. In considering the question of goals, the introduction draws connections between comparative study and historical study within one tradition. Both types of analysis can bridge the gap between historical and normative work by attending to the ways in which the questions a scholar asks,not just the answers found,vary from one context to another. [source] Antigone and Cassandra: Gender and Nationalism in German LiteratureORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 2 2000Isabel Capeloa Gil Stemming from an understanding of literature as a sub-text of culture, created through the circulation of social energies, this paper will discuss how the reception of the Antigone and Cassandra stories in German literature may help understand the nation-building process, particularly from Bismarck's "Grunderjahre" until 1990. Seen as female models in the Western tradition, Antigone and Cassandra derive their particular role in German literature, especially in the 20th century from the coming together of three factors: a sense of decay in the present which leads to the search for cultural models in the past, more specifically in Greek and Roman Antiquity; the "verspätete Nation" complex leading both to a cosmopolitan outlook on the nationality issue, as well as to an identity-reductive conception further represented by the "völkisch" ideology; and thirdly the ideological and utopian projection of the feminine as the "natural" representative of an alternative and purified existence. Since all identity is constructed across difference, this paper argues that Antigone and Cassandra function as gendered nation-building constructions and will show how in literary terms they were used to support and/or reject nationalist cohesion. [source] Antiquity of postreproductive life: Are there modern impacts on hunter-gatherer postreproductive life spans?AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Nicholas G. Blurton Jones Female postreproductive life is a striking feature of human life history and there have been several recent attempts to account for its evolution. But archaeologists estimate that in the past, few individuals lived many postreproductive years. Is postreproductive life a phenotypic outcome of modern conditions, needing no evolutionary account? This article assesses effects of the modern world on hunter-gatherer adult mortality, with special reference to the Hadza. Evidence suggests that such effects are not sufficient to deny the existence of substantial life expectancy at the end of the childbearing career. Data from contemporary hunter-gatherers (Ache, !Kung, Hadza) match longevity extrapolated from regressions of lifespan on body and brain weight. Twenty or so vigorous years between the end of reproduction and the onset of significant senescence does require an explanation. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 14:184,205, 2002. © 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity , By Kim BowesRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 1 2010Dennis P. Quinn No abstract is available for this article. [source] Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods , Edited by Jas' Elsner and Ian RutherfordRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2009Blake Leyerle No abstract is available for this article. [source] The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity , By Guy G. StroumsaRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2009Robin Darling Young No abstract is available for this article. [source] Nazirites in Late Second Temple Judaism: A Survey of Ancient Jewish Writings, the New Testament, Archaeological Evidence, and Other Writings from Late Antiquity , By Stuart ChepeyRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 2 2008April D. DeConick No abstract is available for this article. [source] Thomasine Traditions in Antiquity: The Social and Cultural World of the Gospel of Thomas , Edited by Jon Ma Asgeirsson, April D. DeConick, and Risto UroRELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 3 2006Birger A. Pearson No abstract is available for this article. [source] Christianization and Communication in Late Antiquity: John Chrysostom and his Congregation in Antioch.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2008By Jacyln L. Maxwell No abstract is available for this article. [source] Opening the Sealed Book: Interpretations of the Book of Isaiah in Late Antiquity.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2008By Joseph Blenkinsopp No abstract is available for this article. [source] Philosophy in Late Antiquity.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 2 2008By Andrew Smith No abstract is available for this article. [source] Why Philosophy Abides for AquinasTHE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 3 2001Wayne J. Hankey In Truth in Aquinas Catherine Pickstock and John Milbank continue Radical Orthodoxy's ,reinterpretation' of the history of philosophy and theology by evaluating philosophy as metaphysics so that ,metaphysics collapses into sacra doctrina' in Thomas Aquinas. Their strategy for saving Aquinas from Heideggerian ,onto-theology' is the opposite of that Jean-Luc Marion who in ,Saint Thomas d'Aquin et l'onto-théo-logie' keeps philosophy and metaphysics distinct from sacred teaching. The article examines some of the questions involved by reconsidering the nature of philosophy as textual commentary in late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages. It goes on to examine what Aquinas means by ,the truth of things', and concludes by looking at how he treats the aspects of metaphysics and the relation of metaphysics and sacra doctrina. Hankey judges that Marion is right on this question. The author suggests that what is involved with Milbank and Pickstock is not a reinterpretation of Aquinas. What they have written depends on mistakes and misrepresentations of basic points in his teaching, e.g, participation, intellectual intuition and abstractions, God's being and his existence in things, with the result that Thomas looks more like Descartes or Spinoza than himself. [source] Slave Revolts in Antiquity , By Theresa UrbainczykTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2010Rose Mary Sheldon No abstract is available for this article. [source] Erotic Dreams And Nightmares From Antiquity To The PresentTHE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 2 2002Charles Stewart The history of erotic dreams, nightmares, and erotic nightmares offers a valuable opportunity to study how such dreams tested Western ideas about the self, desire, and self-control. Like Foucault, I find it more productive to analyse these dreams, and the struggles to introject them, as sites of self-making rather than of repression. Erotic dreams and nightmares have been inflected by various historical strategies of self-making, themselves produced by different regimes of knowledge such as Christian asceticism, medicine, or philosophy. Erotic nightmares still proliferate today in reports of alien abductions. A reason for this historical tenacity has been the ease with which the affective sensations of the erotic nightmare , terror and sexual arousal , have jumped between genres as various as monastic handbooks, medieval folk-tales, gothic fiction, and personal dreams. This study demonstrates the importance of historical perspective for the ability to identify and understand culturally elaborated (,culture-bound') syndromes. [source] II,Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300,900)ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE, Issue 1 2009P.S. Barnwell First page of article [source] II,Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300,900)ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE, Issue 1 2008P.S. Barnwell First page of article [source] II,Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300,900)ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE, Issue 1 2006P.S. Barnwell First page of article [source] II Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (300,900)ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE, Issue 1 2002Paul Barnwell First page of article [source] Integrated geophysical and topographical investigation in the territory of Ancient Tarquinia (Viterbo, central Italy)ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 3 2007S. Piro Abstract This paper presents the results of an ongoing study of the territory of Ancient Tarquinia (Viterbo, central Italy). The work is part of the University of Milano's ,Tarquinia Project', which studies the monumental area of this territory with particular emphasis on the ,Ara della Regina' temple site. To enhance the knowledge of this territory, a scientific collaboration between the University of Milano (Department of Science of Antiquity) and the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage (ITABC-C.N.R.) was initiated in 2000 and is still in progress. The primary objective of the study was to determine the location and degree of conservation of unknown buried structures below the sites studied, using the integration of topographical surveys, three-dimensional laser scanner surveys of the temple and ground-based remote sensing surveys. The remote sensing surveys were carried out using the ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The analysis of the GPR time-slice maps indicates that some structural formations and walls of the buildings are still present below the surface. The results presented and discussed in this paper demonstrate the potential of both the topographical survey combined with the three-dimensional laser scanner survey of the monument and the remote sensing technique for understanding of the presence and the extent of buried buildings with respect to the temple area. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The Source Provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from CyprusARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 1 2002B. Gomez Archaeological interpretations of ancient economies have been strengthened by chemical analyses of ceramics, which provide the clearest evidence for economic activity, and comprise both the objects of exchange and its means. Pottery is often manufactured from local materials, but its compositional diversity typically prevents significant patterns of resource utilization from being identified. Centrally located and positioned on traditional shipping routes, Cyprus maintained ties with and supplied a variety of distinctive ceramic products to the major commercial centres in the eastern Mediterranean throughout Antiquity. We analysed two Cypriot .ne wares and a variety of utilitarian pottery, as well as samples of extant Cypriot clays to determine source provenance. These chemical analyses provide an objective indication of the origins of ancient (Bronze Age and Roman) ceramics manufactured on Cyprus. The distribution of the probable clay sources and the links between pottery style and the material environment also afford a perspective on the spatial organization of large-scale pottery production on the island. Compositional analysis provides the means to assemble geographies of pottery production and to unravel the interregional system of exchange that operated in Antiquity, but the ability to accomplish these tasks is predicated on systematic analyses of ceramic products and raw materials that are found far beyond the bounds of individual archaeological sites. [source] Monuments and Texts: Antiquarianism and the Beauty of AntiquityART HISTORY, Issue 4 2002Maria Grazia Lolla Maria Grazia Lolla has published articles in English and Italian on various aspects of antiquarianism, aesthetics and eighteenth,century culture, as well as on Caribbean poetry and literature. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, has been awarded fellowships from the British Council and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has held research fellowships at the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities and the Huntington Library. Now at work on Rivers Unknown to Song: Antiquarian Explorations of the East and West Indies, she is an adjunct professor at New York University. From the beginning of the Renaissance antiquaries had been publishing monuments at such a pace that publishing as much as collecting or studying monuments could be counted amongst the defining features of antiquarianism. However widely and routinely practised, the publication of monuments revealed substantial divisions within the world of antiquarianism. Antiquaries were faced with the choice of either textualizing monuments , turning monuments from visual or tactile objects into reading material , or attempting to reproduce their materiality , even if the monument was a text. The paper analyses Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti (1767) as a significant example of the former and the discussion concerning the publication of Domesday Book that took place in the rooms of the London Society of Antiquaries in 1768 as a compelling example of the latter. Juxtaposed to one another, Monumenti antichi inediti and the projected facsimile of the Domesday Book provide mutually revealing accounts of the aesthetic and intellectual complexities of eighteenth,century antiquarian practice. Where Winckelmann patently sought to rid monuments of their materiality in an effort, perhaps, to nobilitate antiquarianism , while nevertheless keeping it in a suitably ancillary position to literature , the fellows of the Society of Antiquaries chose the facsimile as the vehicle of preservation and transmission best suited to conveying their admiration of texts as material objects, indeed, as non,representational art. As necessarily (and self,consciously) imperfect attempts to reproduce original monuments, facsimiles provide both a marker of deep scepticism about the possibility of ever really knowing the past and a precious trace of past versions of the past , of what could be seen and deemed worthy of preservation, scholarly investigation and aesthetic appreciation. [source] The Birth of Late Antiquity: Riegl and Strzygowski in 1901ART HISTORY, Issue 3 2002Jas´ Elsner This paper celebrates the anniversary of the publication of Alois Riegl's Spätrömische Kunstindustrie and Josef Strzygowski's Orient oder Rom in 1901. The significance of these two books and the polemic that developed between their authors and their adherents goes to the heart of the development of late-antique studies in the history of art. But beyond this, it exemplifies what was best in the characteristic scholarship of the ,Vienna School', empiricism embedded in idealism , and the dangers of teleological politics to which such Austro-German art, historical theorizing ran the risk of succumbing, especially by the 1920s and 1930s. Yet the legacy of the Vienna School's methodological intervention in art history through the emphasis on style runs longer still than the middle of the century. The paper explores also some of the effects of Vienna-style empiricism in the much more recent works of Ernst Kitzinger and Ernst Gombrich. [source] TRAGEDY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, FORTY YEARS AFTER,BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2003AXEL SEEBERGArticle first published online: 12 MAR 2010 There is new evidence, including some with a possible bearing on the early popularity of Euripides outside Athens (as reported by Plutarch); his superior popularity in later Antiquity is also stressed. A few working hypotheses seem to merge: revival of interest in the second century AD transformed the craft of acting (as in Comedy) , in performance, comedies may have outlasted tragedies. Tragic myths are depicted as myths, while stage illustration stands for feats of acting, as evidenced by the emphasis on servant parts. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||