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Appendix: Bioarchaeological Analysis of Bronze Age Human Remains from the Čačak and Surrounding Area
Full text linkThis paper presents the results of a bioarchaeological analysis of cremated and inhuma- tion human remains coming from nine Bronze Age archaeological sites located in the territory of Čačak (Serbia): 1) Veliko Polje in Jančići, 2) Dubac in Jančići, 3) Ivkovo Brdo in Krstac, 4) Grotnica in Guča, 5) Ruja in Dučalovići, 6) Suva Česma in Lučani, 7) Kruševlje in Lučani, 8) Babinjak in Donja Kravarica, and 9) Mala Kolonija - Beljina in Čačak. Cremations were generally characterized by small weights. Colour of the cremated remains, bone warping, volume loss, transversal and longitudinal cracks, delamination, and fragmentation were consistent with high combustion temperatures. These kinds of changes made it very difficult to make accurate estimations of minimum number of individuals, sex, and age. Skeletal individuals showed evidence of degenerative disease in the spine and bad dental health. Both cremated and inhumated records showed subtle indications of metabolic disease and physiological stress.У овом раду су представљени резултати биоархеолошке анализе спаљених и инху- мираних посмртних остатака са девет бронзанодопских археолошких локалитета који се налазе на територији Чачка: 1) Велико Поље у Јанчићима; 2) Дубац у Јанчићима; 3) Ивково Брдо у Крстацу; 4) Гротница у Гучи; 5) Руја у Дучаловићима; 6) Сува Чесма у Лучанима; 7) Крушевље у Лучанима; 8) Бабињак у Доњој Краварици и 9) Мала Колонија - Бељина у Чачку. Спаљени скелетни остаци су показали релативно мале тежине. Боја спаљених остатака, савијање, губитак запремине, попречне и уздужне пукотине, деламинација и фрагментација били су у складу са високим температурама спаљивања. Ове промене су значајно отежале процене минималног броја индивидуа, као и њихове полне и старосне припадности. Инхумирани остаци су показали присуство дегенеративних промена на кичменим пршљеновима и на кичми и денталне болести. И спаљени и инхумирани остаци су показали присуство суптилних индикатора метаболичких болести и физиолошког стреса
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
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
Bronze Age funerary practice in the Western Morava basin
No full textОбласт Западног Поморавља, дефинисана током истоимене реке и појединих притока, представља природну спону између западне и централне Србије...Defined by the flow of the river and its tributaries, the region of the Western
Morava basin represents a natural connection between western and central Serbia, which in
wider sense links the Dinarides of the western Balkans and the Morava Vardar route. A
significant number of funeral sites originate from the Bronze Age, and they are mostly
concentrated in the northern part of this area, while the settlements are rare and
insufficiently known despite very intensive field surveys. During several decades of the
intensive research, a significant amount of the material was collected from the necropolises,
which provided an opportunity to reconsider the previous attitudes and knowledge,
especially the ones regarding some recent archeological research and the ones compared to
the contemporaneous analysis from the neighboring regions.
Examining the different types of the necropolises used through the various phases of
the Bronze Age, we can infer that the barrows are always noticed in the northern part of the
Western Morava basin bordered by the valley. Downstream of Kraljevo, the basic
concept is rather different, primarily due to the fact that flat necropolises were used without
preserving any grave mark, thus hindering their identification. This type of necropolis
distribution has remained almost unchanged during the whole period of the Bronze Age
development, which consequently has provided a reliable opportunity to define a bordering
are
The basic concept for the material systematization has been primarily determined by
the necropolis type, and the following characteristics type of material, shape, decoration
and function, whereby the material traces of the executed rituals that followed the funeral
were not omitted. The characteristics, amount and place of finding of the material traces..
Bronze Age funerary practice in the Western Morava basin
Full text linkОбласт Западног Поморавља, дефинисана током истоимене реке и појединих притока, представља природну спону између западне и централне Србије...Defined by the flow of the river and its tributaries, the region of the Western
Morava basin represents a natural connection between western and central Serbia, which in
wider sense links the Dinarides of the western Balkans and the Morava Vardar route. A
significant number of funeral sites originate from the Bronze Age, and they are mostly
concentrated in the northern part of this area, while the settlements are rare and
insufficiently known despite very intensive field surveys. During several decades of the
intensive research, a significant amount of the material was collected from the necropolises,
which provided an opportunity to reconsider the previous attitudes and knowledge,
especially the ones regarding some recent archeological research and the ones compared to
the contemporaneous analysis from the neighboring regions.
Examining the different types of the necropolises used through the various phases of
the Bronze Age, we can infer that the barrows are always noticed in the northern part of the
Western Morava basin bordered by the valley. Downstream of Kraljevo, the basic
concept is rather different, primarily due to the fact that flat necropolises were used without
preserving any grave mark, thus hindering their identification. This type of necropolis
distribution has remained almost unchanged during the whole period of the Bronze Age
development, which consequently has provided a reliable opportunity to define a bordering
are
The basic concept for the material systematization has been primarily determined by
the necropolis type, and the following characteristics type of material, shape, decoration
and function, whereby the material traces of the executed rituals that followed the funeral
were not omitted. The characteristics, amount and place of finding of the material traces..
Chronological and cultural attribution of the Early Iron Age graves from mound necropolis in Mojsinje near Čačak
No full textThe paper discusses the burial horizon II from the tumuli necropolis in
Mojsinje, near Čačak, characterized by the inhumation burial ritual. Based
on radiocarbon dates, this horizon is set between the second half of the
11th and the beginning of the 8th century BC and probably had two burial
phases. The older phase (the second half of 11th to the end of 10th century
BC) comprises graves without any grave goods or with a coarse ceramic
vessel. The radiocarbon dates from graves with early iron objects, which
belong to the younger phase, confirm iron use in the 9th and the beginning
of the 8th century BC. These items represented prestigious goods of an
emerging elite at the very beginning of the Early Iron Age. Finally, a new
term is proposed (the Mojsinje-Stapari Horizon), based on the names of
necropolises in Mojsinje and Stapari, sites that revealed rich and
characteristic material from the beginning of the last millennium of the old
era, in order to segregate the cultural pattern in western Serbia from the
Bosut culture
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