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Emergency actions for the documentation, stabilization, and consolidation of the Early Bronze Age fortifications at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
No full textIskandar is an Early Bronze Age (ca. 3800-1950 BCE) mound in the Madaba Governorate of Jordan. Until a decade ago, it was better known as a key site for the non-urban Early Bronze IV period (ca. 2500-1950 BCE), but is increasingly emerging as a signature site for the urban Early Bronze II-III period (ca. 3050-2500 BCE). The contour of the tall site is shaped by the presence of buried fortifications that were investigated in the north-western sector of the mound, where a long sequence of rebuilds was recognized, but were exposed to and impacted by modern construction activities along the southern and south-eastern areas prior to being recorded. There, due to erosion and weathering, the stone fortifications dating to the first half of the Early Bronze III (ca. 2850-2650 BCE) fell down. In this paper, we report on our strategies to assess threats, document damages, sustainably stabilize, and consolidate the collapsed ancient fortifications in the 2023 field season at Khirbat Iskandar. At the same time, we discuss the conceptual/methodological and practical challenges of identifying best practices in the conservation and preservation of antiquities that collapsed prior to being excavated. We conclude with some thoughts on how to build on these actions to efficiently present the archaeology and cultural heritage at protohistoric sites, like Khirbat Iskandar, and to make it accessible for the local and the international communities
Expedtion to Khirbat Iskandar and its Environs: the 2019 season
No full textReport of the 2019 excavations at the archaeological site of Khirbat Iskandar
Expedition to Khirbat Iskandar and its environs. The 2016 season
No full textReport on the 2016 excavation season at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
Telegram from Jesse L. Lasky to Arthur S. Friend, ca. 1919
No full textTelegram from Jesse L. Lasky to Arthur S. Friend regarding Mack Sennett comedies, December 18, [1919].POSTAL TELEGRAPH - COMMERCIAL CABLES
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Jesse W. Smith letter to Scott C. Bone, August 6, 1920
No full textIn this letter dated August 6, 1920, Jesse "Jess" W. Smith, secretary at Harding Headquarters, writes to Scott C. Bone of the National Republican Committee. The Cleveland News-Leader and other city newspapers are publishing a series of articles contributed by "The Girl Next Door to Hardings." The author is Eleanor Margaret Freeland, a teacher and close friend of the Hardings who lives next door to their home in Marion, Ohio. Her articles provide an intimate, wholesome portrait of Warren and Florence Harding. Smith suggests that the Republican National Committee circulate these for a wider audience, and asks that Freeland be compensated accordingly.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Shedding light on the urban/rural nexus about 2500 BCE. The 2019 excavations at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
No full textKhirbat Iskandar, Jordan is one of the rare sites in the southern Levant to include substantial
Early Bronze (EB) III and IV occupation on the tell. The 2019 excavations, which afforded
stratigraphic evidence for continuous occupation at the EB III/IV nexus, affirm the earlier
postulated view of cultural continuity between the two. These data shed light on the controversial
“collapse” of EB III urbanism, the mechanisms of recovery in the post-“collapse”
period, and the subsequent ruralization during the EB IV period. This new dataset questions
traditional views of collapse, suggesting rather that societal transformation in current theory
resonates with the Khirbat Iskandar evidence along with a range of social constructs, like
recovery, resilience, agency, along with transformation
Supplement_files – Supplemental material for Hemiresection Interposition Arthroplasty of the Distal Radioulnar Joint: A Long-term Outcome Study
No full textSupplemental material, Supplement_files for Hemiresection Interposition Arthroplasty of the Distal Radioulnar Joint: A Long-term Outcome Study by Femke Nawijn, Svenna H. W. L. Verhiel, Jesse B. Jupiter and Neal C. Chen in HAND</p
"Show Me How You Bury Your People":Dolmens, Burials and Social Development in the Early Bronze Age
No full textThis paper focuses on tracing the development of urbanism through major transitions in the Early Bronze Age, particularly in Jordan. The paper revisits various pertinent topics for the Early Bronze Age, such as continuity/discontinuity, urbanization, and the city-state model, in light of recent discoveries and research. The article will survey sites primarily from the Lower Jordan Valley and the Ghors from the Chalcolithic through the EB IV period. The author will attempt to make the case for urbanization, continuity, and the city-state model in Jordan. The article also considers the Egyptian presence and possible influence on urbanism in the period. During the fourth millennium BCE the southern Levant was in permanent contact with Egypt through copper trade. Evidence for this trade in Jordan was found in the archaeological excavations conducted at sites, such as Hujeirat el-Ghuzlan and Maqas, on the eastern side of the Wadi Arabah. This relationship enhanced at the beginning of the third millennium BCE, after the start of the Dynastic Period in Egypt and, undoubtedly, impacted the urbanization development in the southern Levant. I dedicate this brief survey on the Early Bronze Age to my dear friend and colleague for many years in Jordan, Dr. Suzanne Richard
CernVM Workshop 2019
No full textThis talk explores the underlying purposes of CernVM-FS and CephFS, providing intuition for the general goals of each project, indicating recent directions and highlighting use cases for which they are each well-suited.
**About the Speaker**
Jesse Williamson is a software engineer with experience in a wide variety of environments. He has contributed to Ceph, CernVM-FS, Riak, and the Boost C++ libraries. A long-time user of C++, he is an organizer of the Portland C++ User's Group, a member of several committees at CppCon, and has
participated in WG21
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