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Traverser les Alpes au Néolithique
No full textSummary : The revision of a series of information allows us to discuss some questions related to contacts between societies living North and South of the Alps between the beginning ofthe V millennium and the middle of the V millennium BC, period which coincides with the development of peasant societies and the gradual introduction of metallurgy. These finds often relate to jewels and prestige goods made of green stone from the Piedmont, flint from the Veneto and Trentino Pre-Alps, cor al and Mediterranean shells and they appear in funeral and household assemblages in Switzerland, South Germany and Austria. In addition, some identical ceramics found on both sides ofthe alpine chain, as well as different Mediterranean plant species discovered on some sites of Eastern Switzerland and South Germany confirm ease contacts during recent prehistory.Résumé : La révision d'une série d'informations permet d'aborder ici la question des contacts entre les deux versants des Alpes sur une période comprise entre le début du Ve et la moitié du IIe millénaire av. J.-C, période qui coïncide avec le développement des communautés agro-pastorales et l'introduction progressive de la métallurgie. Les découvertes se rattachent souvent à des parures et à des biens de prestige travaillés en roches vertes des Alpes piémontaises, en silex des Préalpes de Vénétie et du Trentin, en corail et en coquillages de Méditerranée et font partie des mobiliers funéraires et domestiques de Suisse, du Sud de l'Allemagne et de l'Autriche. Certaines céramiques identiques trouvées des deux côtés de la chaîne montagneuse, ainsi que différentes espèces végétales méditerranéennes attestées dans l'Est de la Suisse et le Sud de l'Allemagne confirment la facilité dans les contacts transalpins tout au long de la préhistoire récente.Borrello Maria Angelica, Mottes Elisabetta, Schlichtherle Helmut. Traverser les Alpes au Néolithique. In: Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, tome 149, 2009. Alpes et préhistoire. pp. 29-60
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
New Evidence of Ancestral Landscape in Trentino in the Copper and Bronze Ages: the Ritual Sites of Cles-Campi Neri and La Vela di Trento
No full textRecent investigations (1999-2007) carried out at the site of Cles-Campi Neri in the Valle di Non have brought to light a circular stone structure which can be attributed to a period between the Late Copper Age and the initial phase of the Early Bronze Age. Two structural phases have been identified. The earlier one saw the presence of a large enclosure made up of large blocks enclosing a smaller structure. The items found at the upper levels are made up of flint tools altered by heat. There are also small agglomerations of calcined human bones. In the subsequent phase the area inside the large enclosure was filled in with a platform made up of stones and pebbles, covered and surrounded by organic soil, in which hundreds of flint tools and flakes have been found, along with rarer fragments of pottery. The agglomerations of calcined human bones continue in this phase. Other circular stone structures are positioned along the external perimeter of the platform. Initial analysis of the structural context and the overall material culture, the presence of probable food offerings, suggested by palaeobotanical analysis, and of cremated human remains, make it possible to surmise that the site may have been linked to ritual practices or complex funeral rites.
There are considerable similarities between the site of Cles-Campi Neri and the funeral and cult complex dating back to the Copper Age discovered in 2006 at La Vela di Trento (sector Vela IX) in the Adige valley.
The cult area developed diachronically according to the principle of horizontal stratigraphy, illustrating the progressive extension of the structure from the centre towards the outside. It was made up of a series of stone rings delimiting the structured platforms. The placing of the remains of human skeletons and animal remains, mostly calcined, on these has been documented, along with archaeological material including flint tools, parts of copper and stone ornaments and occasional pottery sherds. It has also been ascertained that fires were lit. A baby was found buried in a jar (pithos burial) in the southern part of the area investigated. This can be attributed to the Early Bronze Age.
The structure brought to light at La Vela very probably represents evidence of more extensive rites and funeral practices linked to the cult of ancestors, according to a practice also documented in other alpine areas.Endrizzi Lorenza, Mottes Elisabetta, Nicolis Franco, Degasperi Nicola. New Evidence of Ancestral Landscape in Trentino in the Copper and Bronze Ages: the Ritual Sites of Cles-Campi Neri and La Vela di Trento. In: Ancestral Landscape. Burial mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe – Balkans – Adriatic – Aegean, 4th-2nd millennium B.C.) Proceedings of the International Conference held in Udine, May 15th-18th 2008. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2012. pp. 511-522. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série recherches archéologiques, 58
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
New Evidence of Ancestral Landscape in Trentino in the Copper and Bronze Ages: the Ritual Sites of Cles-Campi Neri and La Vela di Trento
No full textRecent investigations (1999-2007) carried out at the site of Cles-Campi Neri in the Valle di Non have brought to light a circular stone structure which can be attributed to a period between the Late Copper Age and the initial phase of the Early Bronze Age. Two structural phases have been identified. The earlier one saw the presence of a large enclosure made up of large blocks enclosing a smaller structure. The items found at the upper levels are made up of flint tools altered by heat. There are also small agglomerations of calcined human bones. In the subsequent phase the area inside the large enclosure was filled in with a platform made up of stones and pebbles, covered and surrounded by organic soil, in which hundreds of flint tools and flakes have been found, along with rarer fragments of pottery. The agglomerations of calcined human bones continue in this phase. Other circular stone structures are positioned along the external perimeter of the platform. Initial analysis of the structural context and the overall material culture, the presence of probable food offerings, suggested by palaeobotanical analysis, and of cremated human remains, make it possible to surmise that the site may have been linked to ritual practices or complex funeral rites.
There are considerable similarities between the site of Cles-Campi Neri and the funeral and cult complex dating back to the Copper Age discovered in 2006 at La Vela di Trento (sector Vela IX) in the Adige valley.
The cult area developed diachronically according to the principle of horizontal stratigraphy, illustrating the progressive extension of the structure from the centre towards the outside. It was made up of a series of stone rings delimiting the structured platforms. The placing of the remains of human skeletons and animal remains, mostly calcined, on these has been documented, along with archaeological material including flint tools, parts of copper and stone ornaments and occasional pottery sherds. It has also been ascertained that fires were lit. A baby was found buried in a jar (pithos burial) in the southern part of the area investigated. This can be attributed to the Early Bronze Age.
The structure brought to light at La Vela very probably represents evidence of more extensive rites and funeral practices linked to the cult of ancestors, according to a practice also documented in other alpine areas.Endrizzi Lorenza, Mottes Elisabetta, Nicolis Franco, Degasperi Nicola. New Evidence of Ancestral Landscape in Trentino in the Copper and Bronze Ages: the Ritual Sites of Cles-Campi Neri and La Vela di Trento. In: Ancestral Landscape. Burial mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe – Balkans – Adriatic – Aegean, 4th-2nd millennium B.C.) Proceedings of the International Conference held in Udine, May 15th-18th 2008. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2012. pp. 511-522. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série recherches archéologiques, 58
Architettura e ritualità funeraria in Trentino nel Neolitico. La necropoli della Cultura dei vasi a bocca quadrata di Arco via Degasperi
No full textIn Trentino le testimonianze relative alle strutture e ai rituali funerari del Neolitico medio sono documentate in modo significativo dal ritrovamento di 57 sepolture attribuibili alla Cultura vbq di II stile ad eccezione di una evidenza da riferire alla facies berico – euganea.
Considerata la documentazione già nota, in questo lavoro si intende fornire un quadro aggiornato delle conoscenze acquisite sulla base di ricerche archeologiche inedite come nel caso di 14 sepolture a inumazione messe in luce recentemente a Arco via Degasperi in seguito a indagini condotte dall’Ufficio beni archeologici della Provincia autonoma di Trento.
Le strutture funerarie vbq destinate a individui adulti e subadulti, sono organizzate in tre distinti raggruppamenti areali. In dieci casi sono dotate di cista litica in calcare Rosso Ammonitico locale. Le dimensioni sono varie e proporzionali all’età e alla statura del defunto. Quattro sepolture sono in fossa, due delle quali sono delimitate da un recinto di pietre. L’orientamento è costantemente sud-nord, con il corpo deposto in posizione rattratta sul fianco sinistro, il capo a nord e il volto rivolto a oriente. Alle tombe neolitiche sono associati alcuni pozzetti con probabile valenza rituale.
Le sepolture neolitiche di Arco via Degasperi si caratterizzano per la ricchezza dei corredi funerari presenti in 10 tombe, anche di individui infantili, con attestazione di materie prime di provenienza esotica.
Il rituale funerario condivide le regole ideologiche comuni a tutta la Cultura vbq ma presenta alcune peculiarità come ad esempio la manipolazione dei resti umani che potrebbe trovare elementi di confronto con quanto documentato in area alpina nell’ambito del phénomène Chamblandes
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