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The potential of archives for archaeological research on sites in conflict zones. A case study
No full textRome and the Tzani in Late Antiquity. An historical and archaeological review
No full textCompared to other stretches of the eastern frontier, northeastern Anatolia has rarely attracted the attention of scholars of the Roman and late antique periods. The region is known, through late antique written sources, to have housed a belligerent confederation of tribes, the Tzani, who lived off raids conducted against their neighbours. Until the fifth century AD, the Roman approach to the Tzanic problem was one of quiet co-existence, but, in the early sixth century AD, after war broke out again with Persia, necessity moved the emperor Justinian (r.AD 527-565) to intervene more actively against the Tzani. According to the sixth-century historian Procopius, the Tzani were subdued and a chain of forts was constructed in their lands to protect access to the Black Sea coast. The remains of these forts, as well as those of other sixth-century AD infrastructure allegedly built under Justinian, are still elusive. Nonetheless, evidence on the ground and in the written sources can still help investigate the nature of the Justinianic frontier defensive system
Geç Antik Çağ’da Tzanika’nın (Kuzeydoğu Anadolu) sınır savunma sistemine ilişkin notlar
No full textBu makale, altıncı yüzyılda Kuzeydoğu Anadolu’da yer alan Tzanika’nın sınır savunma sistemine ilişkin matbu arkeolojik bulguların yeniden değerlendirilmesi amacıyla Koç Üniversitesi’nde yürütülen ve TÜBİTAK tarafından desteklenen bir araştırma projesinin (‘Unutulmuş Sınırlar Projesi’) sonuçlarını sunmaktadır. Makale, Justinian’ın sınır politikasını değiştirme sebebini inceleyecek kısa bir tarihsel arka plandan sonra, altıncı yüzyılda doğu sınırının ilgili kısmında uygulanan savunma sistemine daha fazla ışık tutacak arkeolojik bulguları odağına alacaktır
The Javakheti Plateau: Megaliths, Villages, and Obsidian mines in the Prehistory of the Lesser Caucasus of Georgia
Get PDFThe surveys carried out during the last decade in the Javakheti Plateau (Lesser Caucasus, Georgia) led to the discovery
of hundreds of archaeological sites among which are obsidian mining-fields, different types of megaliths and kurgans,
complex villages, and basalt/andesite quarries, which were exploited mainly during the Bronze Age. All sites are located
between c. 1500 and 2500 m of altitude, where present temperatures are well below 0° Celsius during the winter months.
This chapter discusses the complexity of the archaeological landscapes we have investigated, their probable seasonal
exploitation, and suggested complementarities between residential, funerary, and mining areas, whose archaeological
remains in no case overlap. The systematic occurrence of megalithic structures and scatters of obsidian artefacts,
sometimes located dozens of km from the extractive sources, poses many questions regarding their distribution and presence rarely asked by archaeologists
Parution : Emanuele E. Intagliata, "Palmyra after Zenobia AD 273-750 : An Archaeological and Historical Reappraisal", Oxbowbooks, sept 2018
No full textE. Intagliata (Emanuele), Palmyra after Zenobia AD 273-750 : An Archaeological and Historical Reappraisal, Oxbow Books, 2018, 272 p. ISBN 9781785709456 Auteur He is New UrbNet Assistant Professor at Aahrus University. My research interests lie in the archaeology of frontier areas in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth to the ninth century AD. I obtained my PhD at the University of Edinburgh with a research on the history and archaeology of Palmyra in Late Antiquity and the early Islamic per..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
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