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From the Caspian to the Aegean, from the Caucasus to the Carpathians. The Circulation of the "Long-Sword" in the Second Millennium BC.
No full textFrom the Caspian to the Aegean, from the Caucasus to the Carpathians. The Circulation of the "Long-Sword" in the Second Millennium BC.
No full textHow Wide is the Near East? Some Reflections on the Limits of “Near Eastern Archaeology”
Full text linkThe paper considers how the traditional focus of Near Eastern Archaeology, which was centred on Mesopotamia and the surrounding areas of Syro-Palestine, Anatolia and Iran, has been challenged, in several ways and for several reasons, by recent development of the discipline, whose geographical limits have thus become increasingly vague. Examples are given of how recent field activities, by revealing deep and in some cases unsuspected connections with areas which are traditionally the object of different disciplines and have developed a different scholarly tradition, encourage a renewed interest on long-distance circulation and diffusion of raw materials, artefacts and ideas, but at the same time require a deep re-adjustment of our theoretical frameworks and even of our scientific background. Special attention is devoted to the new perspectives about interconnections within the northern portion of the Near East and between this and other cultural macroareas (Central Asia, the Aegean, Southwestern Europe and the Eurasian steppes) opened by field research in the highlands of the Southern Caucasus and Northern Turkey in the course of the last decades
The Tell Gomel archaeological survey. Preliminary results of the 2015-2016 campaigns
Full text linkThis paper presents the methodology, goals and preliminary results of the Tell Gomel Archaeological Survey.
The project has its origins in the wider ‘Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project’ (LoNAP) which has been conducted
since 2012 by the University of Udine in the northern Region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The area examined
by the project is the heart of the Navkur Plain, an alluvial plain that covers the eastern hinterland of the Assyrian
capital of Nineveh. The focus of settlement throughout the entire Navkur Plain was the site of Tell Gomel,
where a preliminary survey documented the existence of a settlement sequence ranging from the Chalcolithic
to the Ottoman period. Due to its large size and position in the centre of the plain, Gomel must have played an
important role in this region, presumably as its political and economic centre. The area around Gomel is also of
great interest because of its position in the heart of the Navkur Plain, a trade route hub from the Late Chalcolithic
onwards, and the main focus of settlement for a much wider region. The project therefore aims to investigate
the archaeological landscapes of this crucial and still unknown area
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Rescue archaeology in the sultanate of Oman: methods and solution strategies
No full textThis paper aims at presenting the results of the topographic fieldwork of a team of professional archaeologists invited by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture of the Sultanate of Oman to excavate and survey three graveyards in the area of Sohar (Falaji as Souq, Wadi al Arad and Liwa) in 2014 and 2015.
The construction of the Batinah Express Highway would have led to the destruction of hundreds of burial mounds, therefore the team developed a quick and accurate surveying strategy to document them properly: after a first “test” campaign using monoscopic photogrammetry, the team opted for 3D SfM photogrammetry using a completely open source workflow.
This workflow required two surveyors on the field and in the IT lab to ensure the archaeologists updated orthophotos and to update the 2D and 3D vector plans. To manage the huge mass of data coming from the field the team opted for QGIS and the plugin PyArchInit.
The mix of surveying methodology and managing system developed on site allowed the team to document the numerous Stratigraphic Units produced during the excavation of hundreds of graves, and also proved to be very helpful as hermeneutic tool as shown in the case of the excavation of Grave 21
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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