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Cultural Heritage in Albania. The management of the relationship between historic Centers and Modern Cities
No full textThe Earliest Urbanized Settlements in the Hinterland of Apollonia (Albania): 7th – Mid 5th Century B.C
No full textAntipatrea (Berat), Arnavutluk’tan iki yeni mozaik
No full textAncient Antipatreia today known as Berat (from Belligrad meaning ‘white city’) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed for its urban center reflecting a vernacular housing tradition of the Balkans, examples of which date mainly from the late 18th and the 19th centuries. Berat is a testimony of several thousand years of history and archaeology. The earliest archaeological evidence in its territory dates back to the Bronze age. Although, limited excavations have hindered our understanding of the various development phases of the city. In fact, fragments of two structures with floor decorations with geometric motifs and Greek-language inscriptions were brought to light at two different locations in the city during works inside the castle in 2012 and in the lower city in 2018. According to the opinion of several researchers, these are two late antique basilicas. Such findings are not so well-known outside the realm of Albanian research publications. Therefore, the principal goal of the research is to present to the international scientific community these late antique churches, partially excavated, inside and outside the medieval castle of Berat. The second goal is to make an analysis of the two structures, the fragmented mosaic motifs and their contextualization in the Balkan and Adriatic area and to possibly attempt the identification of the donors and the craftsmen who build them.Antik Antipatreia – günümüzde “beyaz şehir” anlamına gelen Belligrad’dan türemiş adıyla Berat – Balkanlar’ın geleneksel konut dokusunu yansıtan kentsel merkezleriyle UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesi’nde yer almaktadır. Bu kent, başlıca 18. yüzyılın sonları ile 19. yüzyıldan kalan mimari örnekleri barındırır. Berat, birkaç bin yıllık tarih ve arkeoloji birikiminin somut bir tanığıdır; bölgedeki en erken arkeolojik bulgular Tunç Çağı’na kadar uzanmaktadır. Bununla birlikte, sınırlı kazı çalışmaları kentin gelişim evrelerini bütünüyle anlamamızı güçleştirmiştir. Nitekim, 2012 yılında kalenin iç kesimlerinde ve 2018’de aşağı şehirde yürütülen çalışmalar sırasında, geometrik bezemeli ve Yunanca yazıtlı taban döşemeleriyle ilişkili iki farklı yapıya ait kalıntılar ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Araştırmacıların büyük kısmı bu yapıların Geç Antik Çağ’a ait iki bazilika olduğunu düşünmektedir. Söz konusu buluntular, Arnavutluk’taki bilimsel yayınlar dışında henüz uluslararası ölçekte pek bilinmemektedir. Bu nedenle araştırmanın temel amacı, kısmen kazılmış bu Geç Antik Çağ kiliselerini – hem Berat Ortaçağ kalesi içinde hem de dışında – uluslararası bilim camiasına tanıtmaktır. İkinci amaç ise bu iki yapının, parçalı mozaik motiflerinin ve bağlamlarının Balkanlar ve Adriyatik bölgesi kapsamında analizi; ayrıca bu yapıların olası bağışçılarını ve ustalarını tanımlamak şeklindedir
Una espada de periodo La Tène medio del museo de Durrës, Albania
No full textThe present paper examines a sword dated in the La Tène Period, currently exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Durrës, Albania. According to the scientific staff of the Museum the archaeological context of the sword has not been specified but the blade had been found in the necropolis of the city. The analysis of the sword is based on its typological features but also the historical, the archaeological and ethnological aspects of the region had been taken into consideration. The most significant feature of the blade is of course the bending. This feature led us to correlate the examined object with the Celts, who practiced this ritual of the intentional destruction “killing” a weapon. This is the first folded sword which had been found in the territory of the modern-day Albania.El presente artículo examina una espada fechada en el Período La Tène, actualmente exhibida en el Museo Arqueológico de Durrës, Albania. Según el personal científico del Museo no se ha precisado el contexto arqueológico de la espada, pero la hoja habría sido encontrada en la necrópolis de la ciudad. El análisis de la espada se basa en sus características tipológicas, pero también se han tenido en cuenta los aspectos históricos, arqueológicos y etnológicos de la región. La característica más significativa de la hoja es, por supuesto, la flexión. Esta característica nos llevó a correlacionar el objeto examinado con los celtas, quienes practicaban este ritual de “matar” un arma. Esta es la primera espada doblada que se encontró en el territorio de la actual Albania
The Shala Valley Project
No full textThe Shala Valley Project (SVP) is an Albanian-American collaboration, led by Michael Galaty of Millsaps College in Jackson, MS and Albanian archaeologists Ols Lafe of the Albanian Ministry of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports and Zamir Tafilica of the Shkodra Historical Museum. The project was launched in 2004 and conducted fieldwork during the summers of 2005-2008. The SVP integrates interdisciplinary programs of intensive and extensive archaeological survey and excavation with geo-scientific, ethnographic, and (ethno) historical surveys, including archival historical research, in order to study the Shala fis (''tribe''), one of many northern Albanian fisi that survived intact into the 20th century and, to some extent, down to the present day. The goals of the project are twofold: (1) to produce a diachronic record of the valley''s cultural resources, including both prehistoric and historic resources, that might help local administrators create a viable management plan, and (2) to study the effects of ''isolation'' on people who have always lived in a frontier zone at the edge of larger polities such as the Ottoman Empire and Albanian nation state
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Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania
No full textThere are few places in Europe as remote as the Shala Valley of northern Albania. The inhabitants appear lost in time, cut off from the outside world, a people apart. But this careful interdisciplinary study of their past and way of life tells a very different tale, overturning much of what we thought we knew about Shala and “persistent” peoples everywhere.The residents of this mountain tribe spent centuries inside the bounds of the Ottoman Empire, yet they retained not only their Catholicism, but also their political autonomy, forming a flexible, resilient society. Employing survey archaeology, excavation, ethnographic study, and multinational archival work, the Shala Valley Project uncovered the many powerful, creative ways in which the men and women of Shala shaped their world, and successfully fought for their survival. The researchers also unveiled a new, deeper history for the region—one that reaches back to an unexpected fortified Iron Age site. The people of Shala may serve as an example in our modern age, in which tribal people still seek to preserve some degree of independence from capitalist economies bent on their incorporation.Series: Monumenta Archaeologica 2
Consistent nighttime light time series in 1992–2020 in Northern Africa by combining DMSP-OLS and NPP-VIIRS data
No full textHuman activities modulate the impact of environmental forcing in general and of climate in particular. Information on the spatial and temporal patterns of human activities is in high demand, but scarce in sparsely populated and data-poor regions such as Northern Africa. The intensity and spatial distribution of nighttime lights provide useful information on human activities and can be observed by space-borne imaging radiometers. Our study helps to bridge the gap between the DMSP–OLS data available until 2013 and the NPP–VIIRS data available since 2013. The approach to calibrate the OLS data includes three steps: a) inter-calibrate the OLS DN data acquired by different sensors in 1992–2013; b) calibrate the OLS DN data using VIIRS data in 2013; c) generate synthetic OLS radiance data by degrading the VIIRS data in 2013–2020. We generated a) a time series of calibrated OLS nighttime light radiance data (1992–2013); b) mean annual VIIRS radiance on stable lights at the OLS spatial resolution for 2013–2020; c) synthetic OLS radiance data generated using VIIRS radiance data degraded to match the radiometric specifications of OLS for 2013–2020. The evaluation of these data products in 2013 documented their accuracy and consistency.Geoscience and Remote SensingOptical and Laser Remote Sensin
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