105 research outputs found
Building Identities: Breaks and Continuity in Construction Practices at the Late Bronze Age Settlement of the Serraglio on Kos
No full textIn this contribution, we examine changes in the construction methods and structural orientation of the built environment at the prehistoric settlement of the ‘Serraglio’ on Kos. In so doing, our aim is to understand shifts in occupation, cultural interactions, and identities at the site during the Late Bronze Age. As a human product embedded with meanings, we see the Koan built environment as the outcome of societal ideas, beliefs, and needs, which eventually reflect the socio-political strategies of the local elites. During the Late Bronze Age, the ‘Serraglio’ was progressively transformed by complex processes of cultural fusion that are also visible in other aspects of Koan material culture. Through these processes, local, Minoan, and Mycenaean diacritics were continuously recombined to express cultural and political change. Shifts identified in structural orientation at the ‘Serraglio’ during the Palatial phases of Mycenaean civilization indicate the active choice of the Koan community to mark a difference from the past. At the same time, consistency in construction techniques suggests the expression of a distinct Koan Mycenaean identity at the site. Our research, which relies largely on the archaeological excavations carried out on Kos between 1935 and 1946 by Luigi Morricone, demonstrates that advances in our understanding of Aegean Bronze Age cultural trajectories can be achieved through the analysis of legacy data, despite their limitations relative to modern standards
The Grave of the Griffin Warrior at Pylos: Construction, Burial, and Aftermath
No full textThe circumstances of the discovery, stratigraphy, and construction of the grave
of the Griffin Warrior were described briefly in 2016 as an introduction to
a detailed presentation of the four gold rings found inside it. Here the “life
history” of the grave is considered fully. As a sealed context, the grave of the
Griffin Warrior also provides a key dated context for many classes of artifact,
the chronologies of which have not hitherto been well defined. Because of its
importance in this regard, supporting evidence is presented that the Griffin
Warrior was buried in Late Helladic IIA and that the burial deposit in the
grave lay undisturbed after Late Helladic IIA
Legal psilocybin mushrooms in Oregon: a prologue
No full textLuca Mazzucato, Ph.D., neuroscientist at the University of Oregon, Audra McNamee, cartoonist.Covers OCLC #1391088228.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Langada Revisited
No full textThis chapter investigates burial practices and cultural identity at the cemetery of Langada on Kos and discusses the evidence for diachronic changes in the context of Koan Late Bronze Age society. More specifically, through an in-depth study of excavation data, this contribution reconsiders three significant aspects of the Langada burial arena. The first one concerns tomb type, size, shape, and spatial distribution. The second and the third aspects concern, respectively, evidence for tomb reuse and mortuary treatments. The analysis of these features is used to compare burial practices, characterize societal structure, and better understand cultural developments. The results of this research imply that the gradual formation of a Mycenaean identity on Kos was the outcome of a long-term process of integration between Greek mainland and local funerary traditions, which came to fruition during Late Helladic IIIA2 and Late Helladic IIIB. During these phases, Mycenaean identity functioned to bind a well-organized Koan society. In the successive Late Helladic IIIC period, on the other hand, the identification of greater variability in material evidence and burial practices suggests that, while Mycenaean culture remained important, Koan society had a more fluid character and a looser structure
Soil Phytolith Assemblages of the American Southwest: The Use of Historical Ecology in Taphonomic Studies
No full textPhytolith analysis is a prominent microbotanical technique utilized in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research. Opal phytoliths are silica bodies that form in and around the cells of plants and are often preserved within sediment due to their silica structure long after decomposition of the original organic material. This dissertation combines phytolith analysis with modern vegetation data and historical ecology to increase the interpretive potential of phytolith studies within the American Southwest. The research expands on phytolith analysis and its usefulness as an archaeological and environmental proxy in the American Southwest by 1) developing and presenting a regional comparative collection of common species 2) establishing modern phytolith analogues for Southwestern vegetation communities, and 3) examining processes of phytolith deposition and preservation.
This research presents a comprehensive comparative collection of 159 prominent plants from the American Southwest. The morphotypes identified in the comparative collection support a classification of soil phytoliths into twelve categories: chloridoid, Eragrostis species, panicoid, pooid, aristidoid, C4 short cells, redundant short cells, other Poaceae, gymnosperm, eudicot, Agave, and Cyperaceae. Using this classification system, modern soil phytolith assemblages are examined from three vegetation zones: the ponderosa-pine bunchgrass community, the Sonoran desert grassland, and the Chihuahuan desert grassland. In order to assess the impacts of soil formation processes on phytolith assemblages, historical vegetation data from two of these three vegetation zones, the ponderosa pine bunchgrass community and the Sonoran desert grassland, are compared to soil phytolith assemblages collected through microsampled soil profiles.
The results of this study show that phytolith assemblages can clearly differentiate the ponderosa pine bunchgrass community from the desert grassland communities. The desert grassland communities, however, cannot be differentiated from one another based on soil phytoliths. This research also shows that phytoliths can identify different micro-ecological niches within desert grassland environments. Incongruities between the modern vegetation record and the phytolith assemblage exist at all three locations. Three factors, differential phytolith production, plant biomass, and soil formation processes, contribute to these incongruities. The long term accumulation of phytolith forms, bioturbation, and translocation are the primary soil formation factors that impact soil phytolith assemblages in this area. The effects of bioturbation and translocation are more pronounced in the upper 4 cm of the soil profile and decrease below this depth. The long term movement and accumulation of phytoliths in a soil profile results in a background signal that pervades the assemblage. These processes do not fully obscure the phytolith record of vegetation change and, through micro-sampling, soil phytoliths can provide valuable information on changes in plant communities through time. This is especially true in settings where sedimentary input contributes to vertical soil growth. This research emphasizes the need for researchers interested in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction to understand phytolith production and sample context and to target locations conducive to the preservation of the phytolith record
L’échec du mythe de la virilité dans The Ultras d’Eoin McNamee
No full textDans cet article, je me propose d’analyser les procédés d’écriture qui permettent à Eoin McNamee dans The Ultras de dévoiler l’échec de la tentative de rétablissement d’une virilité mythifiée. Par le réinvestissement d’une figure controversée de l’histoire des Troubles nord-irlandais, Robert Nairac, l’auteur souligne la persistance d’un mythe de la virilité dont le deuil entamé ne semble pas fini. Les techniques d’estompage et la juxtaposition des points de vue brouillent non seulement les frontières entre réalité et fiction, mais attestent aussi du caractère fictif du réel. En révélant la hantise du présent par le passé, le roman met en question les récits officiels de la période post-conflit nord-irlandaise, fait surgir l’expérience traumatique et déboulonne l’optimisme de la « propagande de la paix », pour reprendre l’expression de McLaughlin et Baker.This article examines the writing strategies used by Eoin McNamee in The Ultras to unveil the failure of the attempt to rebuild a mythologised manliness. The reshaping of a controversial figure of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Robert Nairac, enables the author to underline the persistence of a myth of manliness, of which the period of mourning is not yet completed. By shading the realism of the novel and by intertwining several points of view, McNamee is not merely blurring the lines between facts and fiction, but also revealing the fictional aspect of reality. The obsessive nature of the characters’ preoccupations with the past questions the post-Troubles official narratives and leads to the eruption of the trauma eschewed by the optimism of the hegemonic discourse, which flourished after the peace agreement in Northern Ireland – a discourse dubbed the ‘propaganda of peace’ by McLaughlin and Baker
Ethics in Leisure - An Agenda for Research
No full textThe point of our brief paper today is to draw attention to the scope of ethics in leisure research (and therefore, by implication, teaching too) that is underpinned by philosophy and the rich potential it offers for academics in the next century
Unsought and unsolicited knowledge: a problem-solving-process framework for knowledge exchanges in organizations
No full textThis dissertation starts with the premise that a well-functioning learning organization should be able to effectively and efficiently resolve both known-unknowns as well as unknown-unknowns. Furthermore it takes a bottom-up, emergent perspective on organizational learning by assuming that this is done, in large part, by organizing for and encouraging various forms of knowledge exchange interactions among its members (e.g., Argote, 1999). By reviewing a number of different literature streams (e.g,. knowledge search-transfer, advice sharing-acceptance, innovation championing-adoption), I highlight that each focuses on a different form of knowledge exchange. Furthermore, I suggest that these literatures have implicitly assumed that whether a recipient or a source initiated an exchange corresponded to whether the exchange and the knowledge it involved was solicited / sought (and thus likely to only resolve known-unknowns) or unsolicited / unsought (and thus offers the potential to resolve unknown-unknowns). However, I argue, initiation in modern, complex, knowledge-based organizations is frequently mutual or coincidental and thus may be a poor proxy for unsolicited / unsought knowledge. In order to understand instances of unsolicited / unsought knowledge across all forms of knowledge exchange, I propose that knowledge exchange interactions can be contextualized within a recipient’s overall problem-solving process. By contextualizing knowledge-exchanges within a multi-phase problem-solving process (e.g., problem formulation, problem validation, solution formulation, solution validation), I am able to examine where recipients are cognitively when they start an interaction as well as the implications for the type of knowledge provided by sources during the interaction. A survey of over 1200 respondents describing over 700 knowledge exchange interactions at four multinational Research and Development companies provided evidence of my propositions. In each of three sections / studies, I debunk what I argue are assumptions built into literature focused on either source- or recipient-initiated exchanges. Collectively my results seem to suggest that initiation is not particularly relevant for differentiating the type of knowledge exchange (or more precisely whether an exchange may resolve unknown-unknowns) and highlight unsolicited / unsought knowledge as a more relevant construct.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Robert Carlton McName
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