586 research outputs found
Grim's Ditch, Wansdyke, and the Ancient Highways of England: Linear Monuments and Political Control
No full textPublished first in 2007, Tim Malim's review of Grim's Ditch and Wansdyke provides a valuable synthesis and exploration of key issues of wider application regarding the relationship between linear earthworks, movement, territoriality and politics in the later prehistoric and early historic societies in Britain. The author provides a new introduction, while the article has been revised to the format of the Offa's Dyke Journal by the editors
Indigenous views on the future of public archaeology in Australia. A conversation that did not happen
No full textThis paper was written in response to a request by the editors of the AP: Online Journal of Public Archaeology, Jaime Almansa Sánchez and Elena Papagiannopoulou, for Claire Smith to write on the future of public archaeology in Australia. In Australia, public archaeology focusses on high profile colonial sites such as The Rocks in Sydney (Karskens 1999) and Port Arthur in Tasmania (Steele et al. 2007; Frew 2012), tourism (e.g. Cole and Wallis 2019) or enhancing school curricula (Nichols et al. 2005; Owens and Steele 2005). However, given her decades-long relationships with Jawoyn and Ngadjuri people (Smith 1999; Smith et al. 2016; Smith et al. 2020), Claire Smith decided that a useful way of approaching this topic would be to obtain Indigenous views on the subject. Accordingly, she contacted the Aboriginal co-authors of this article and invited them to co-author the paper. The possibility to write in free form was a boon. The ‘conversation’ format we settled on was designed to facilitate the voices of individuals, to present a range of Indigenous views, to allow people to express their views frankly, and to deal with the constraints of people being located in different parts of Australia as well as occasional lock-downs due to COVID-19. We decided on five topics/questions that would be the basis of the conversation. Each Aboriginal author gave their views either by email or by phone. These views were interwoven into a ‘conversation’. The language has been edited lightly for clarity and to simulate a real-life conversation. The final text was approved by all authors
Shifting Border, Shifting Interpretation: what the Anglo-Norman Castle of Dodleston in Cheshire might be trying to tell us about the eleventh-century northern Anglo-Welsh Border
No full textThis chapter follows on from research and publication by this author on the form and placing of Anglo-Norman castles situated within the northern Anglo-Welsh medieval borderland, recently interpreted and newly termed the Irish Sea Cultural Zone (Swallow 2016). This interpretation argues for the Anglo-Normans’ reuse of pre-existing monuments dating from the prehistoric and Romano-British periods for the deliberate placing of their castle builds. Dodleston Castle was situated within the fluctuating borders of this frontier borderlands zone, and, it is argued, played a significant role in the continuity of strategic and commercial movement along the entirety of the Anglo-Welsh border and the Irish Sea Region. Within this context, and taking a cross-period and interdisciplinary research approach to re-examine the earthworks and landscape of Dodleston Castle in more detail than hitherto, the earthworks at Dodleston may reveal a meeting point of significance over millennia. It will be demonstrated, for instance, that Dodleston’s earthworks likely represent an Anglo-Saxon assembly site situated at the meeting points of important medieval administrative boundaries within the Irish Sea Cultural Zone. By considering the wider spatial significance of Dodleston beyond the temporal confines of the Anglo-Norman period, it is therefore possible to understand better, and reinterpret, the form of the castle earthworks as they exist in the landscape today
Wat's Dyke: An Archaeological and Historical Enigma
No full textOne of the very few published articles dedicated to the investigation of Wat's Dyke, Margaret Worthington Hill's article stemming from her University of Manchester M.Phil thesis was originally published in a special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library published by Manchester University Press. Guest-edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker, the theme was Anglo-Saxon Texts and Contexts (Worthington 1997). Her article is re-printed here with the permission of the author and with the support and permission of the guest-editor, the current editors of that journal, and Manchester University Press. This version has been revised for style (including the removal of footnote citations and the inclusion of a Bibliography) and includes new photographs taken by this journal's editors to illustrate the character of the monument at key locations mentioned in the text. The article remains an invaluable resource for those studying Wat's Dyke and it might be profitably read in conjunction with the published fieldwork and dating of Wat's Dyke at Gobowen (Shropshire) by Malim and Hayes (2008). Margaret spoke eloquently about her long-term research on Offa's Dyke and Wat's Dyke at the first meeting of the Offa's Dyke Collaboratory in Shrewsbury in April 2017 and attended the Offa's Dyke Conference at Oswestry in September 2018. In this context, it is a particular privilege to include her important study in the first volume of the Offa's Dyke Journal, thus recognizing her longstanding contribution to the study of Britain's longest early medieval linear earthworks
Resampling of the I-JAS Data for Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis : Compilation of "I-JAS for CIA"
No full text会議名: 言語資源ワークショップ2024, 開催地: オンライン, 会期: 2024年8月28日-29日, 主催: 国立国語研究所 言語資源開発センター, 共催: 言語資源協会, 後援: 国立情報学研究所「多言語母語の日本語学習者横断コーパス（I-JAS）」は、2020年のリリース以降、日本語教育・第二言語習得の研究分野で広く使用されている。しかし、海外の学習者コーパス研究で広く実践されている計量的な中間言語対照分析（contrastive interlanguage analysis：CIA）は、I-JAS 研究ではあまり普及していないようである。この理由の一端は、I-JAS の習熟度データの複雑性と、I-JASのダウンロード版テキストデータの扱いにくさにあると思われる。そこで、筆者は、習熟度を統制したCIAの実現のため、新しい習熟度指標で1,000人の学習者を再分類し、すべてのテキストデータを単一のエクセルシートに集約した「I-JAS for CIA」というデータシートを作成した。本稿は、「I-JAS for CIA」の構築過程とその利用法、また、研究応用の可能性について報告する。application/pdf神戸大学Kobe UniversitySince its release in 2020, the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS) has been widely used in research fields of Japanese language teaching and second language acquisition. However, quantitative contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA), which is commonly practiced in learner corpus studies overseas, does not seem to be fully used in I-JAS research. Part of the reason for this may be due to the complexity of the learners' proficiency data offered in the I-JAS and the unwieldiness of the I-JAS downloadable text data. The author, therefore, has re-classified 1,000 learners based on a new integrative proficiency index and created a data sheet called "I-JAS for CIA," which consolidates all text data into a single Excel sheet to enable proficiency-controlled CIA. This paper reports on the process of constructing "I-JAS for CIA," its usage, and potential research applications.conference pape
Pegging, floating, and price stability: lessons from Taiwan
No full textTaiwan ; Foreign exchange - Law and legislation ; Vector autoregression
中間言語対照分析（CIA）のためのI-JASダウンロードデータの加工 : I-JAS for CIA の整備
No full text会議名: 言語資源ワークショップ2024, 開催地: オンライン, 会期: 2024年8月28日-29日, 主催: 国立国語研究所 言語資源開発センター, 共催: 言語資源協会, 後援: 国立情報学研究所「多言語母語の日本語学習者横断コーパス（I-JAS）」は、2020年のリリース以降、日本語教育・第二言語習得の研究分野で広く使用されている。しかし、海外の学習者コーパス研究で広く実践されている計量的な中間言語対照分析（contrastive interlanguage analysis：CIA）は、I-JAS 研究ではあまり普及していないようである。この理由の一端は、I-JAS の習熟度データの複雑性と、I-JASのダウンロード版テキストデータの扱いにくさにあると思われる。そこで、筆者は、習熟度を統制したCIAの実現のため、新しい習熟度指標で1,000人の学習者を再分類し、すべてのテキストデータを単一のエクセルシートに集約した「I-JAS for CIA」というデータシートを作成した。本稿は、「I-JAS for CIA」の構築過程とその利用法、また、研究応用の可能性について報告する。application/pdf神戸大学Kobe UniversitySince its release in 2020, the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS) has been widely used in research fields of Japanese language teaching and second language acquisition. However, quantitative contrastive interlanguage analysis (CIA), which is commonly practiced in learner corpus studies overseas, does not seem to be fully used in I-JAS research. Part of the reason for this may be due to the complexity of the learners' proficiency data offered in the I-JAS and the unwieldiness of the I-JAS downloadable text data. The author, therefore, has re-classified 1,000 learners based on a new integrative proficiency index and created a data sheet called "I-JAS for CIA," which consolidates all text data into a single Excel sheet to enable proficiency-controlled CIA. This paper reports on the process of constructing "I-JAS for CIA," its usage, and potential research applications
Offa's Dyke: A Continuing Journey of Discovery
No full textNew observations concerning the Mercian/Welsh frontier, principally on Offa’s Dyke (but also on Wat’s Dyke and in the Vale of Clwyd), were made each winter between 2016/17 and 2019/20 by the lead author with, at one time or another, each of the collaborators in this article. The prime focus here is upon Offa’s Dyke in west Gloucestershire and in Flintshire, in both of which areas fieldwork is adding incrementally to our stock of knowledge about the extent and nature of the monument. However, observations elsewhere on its course, such as in west-central Herefordshire, at Hem (Montgomeryshire), and near Trefonen (Shropshire) are also noted in brief descriptive sections. The identification of ‘new’ lengths of Offa’s Dyke in Tutshill (near Chepstow) and between Lower Redbrook and Lower Lydbrook south-east of Monmouth indicates that the linear earthwork was built as a near-continuous or continuous monument in these southerly areas. Meanwhile, the discovery of lengths of linear earthwork in Flintshire that could have formed part of a continuous course reaching the sea near Gronant east of Prestatyn has also raised important questions about the relationship of Wat’s Dyke to Offa’s Dyke
‘Archaeology Time with Miss Jessica’ Archaeology education in summer schools and summer camp in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
No full textArchaeology education benefits not only archaeologists, but also teachers and students. It fosters future stewards of our cultural heritage while making any classroom lesson more exciting and engaging for the students. In an effort to realize both of these goals, the author undertook an archaeology education programme in her local area of Upper Peninsula Michigan using a dual approach. She coordinated and implemented archaeology education activities in four local elementary schools during summer school, on a weekly basis, and developed and led an archaeology summer camp for children in conjunction with a local chapter of the 4-H Club. Teaching methods and activities varied between the two approaches; however, object handling was a key component of every lesson. Activities included learning about the instructor through examining objects she had brought from home, the dustbin game and skeleton game, a wastebasket excavation to learn context and stratigraphy, a mock excavation, a pot-mending activity, the creation of a museum exhibit, a “Maya Math” activity using the Maya numbering system, and a human evolution activity using replica hominid crania. Each approach presented its own challenges and rewards, but ultimately the author was able to inculcate over one hundred future stewards of our cultural heritage
Jim Thompson and Jas S. Hall hiking the Appalachian Trail
No full textThis photograph of Jim Thompson and Jas S. Hall hiking the Appalachian Trail is in the collection of the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club. The club was formed after a group of outdoor enthusiasts hiked up to Mount LeConte in October 1924. The photograph was made by Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), a founding member of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association and author of “Birth of a National Park.” Club member James E. (Jim) Thompson (1880-1976) was a professional photographer who played a major role in promoting a national park in the Southern Appalachians
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