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How Did a Chimaera Get Lost in Margush? Indus-Related Seals from Bronze Age Oases Along the Amu Darya and Murghab Rivers
No full textThis paper presents a coherent collection of Indus-related stone seals and tablets from Bactria and
Margiana, detailing their morphological and iconographic features and indicating comparisons with equivalent
seals found in the greater Indus Valley of present-day Pakistan and northwestern India. Overall, these objects reveal
a new aspect of the settlement pattern in the oases flourished along the Oxus river during the Middle Bronze
Age, with specific reference to the seminal paper by Sandro Salvatori (2008), ‘The Margiana Settlement Pattern
from the Middle Bronze Age to the Parthian-Sasanian Period: A Contribution to the Study of Complexity’. A few
other miscellaneous hybrid-seals with features of both the Oxus and the Indus seal productions, including the
representation in local style of a typical Harappan chimaera, will also be presented to further stress the duration
and significance of the commercial and cultural links between these two macro-regions along the third and in the
first half of the second millennium B
Prehistoric Fishing along the Coasts of the Arabian Sea: A Short Overview from Oman, Balochistan and Sindh (Pakistan)
No full textCommunities of fishers and shellfish gatherers settled along the coasts of the Arabian Sea since the end
of the 8th millennium BP. Traces of their presence are known from both the Sultanate of Oman and Pakistan. The
surveys and excavations carried out in Oman since the 1970s, and Las Bela and Sindh (Pakistan) since the beginning
of the 2000s, led to the discovery of an impressive number of shell middens whose characteristics vary according
to the coastal zone where they are located. The present paper discusses the archaeological evidence of prehistoric
fishing in the aforementioned region. The archaeological evidence relies on characteristic material culture and
faunal remains, the radiocarbon chronology of the sites, the importance they play in the reconstruction of the
Holocene Arabian Sea coastal landscapes, and the intensity of peopling during different periods of habitatio
Prehistoric Fishing along the Coasts of the Arabian Sea: A Short Overview from Oman, Balochistan and Sindh (Pakistan)
No full textCommunities of fishers and shellfish gatherers settled along the coasts of the Arabian Sea since the end of the 8th millennium BP. Traces of their presence are known from both the Sultanate of Oman and Pakistan. The surveys and excavations carried out in Oman since the 1970s, and Las Bela and Sindh (Pakistan) since the beginning of the 2000s, led to the discovery of an impressive number of shell middens whose characteristics vary according to the coastal zone where they are located. The present paper discusses the archaeological evidence of prehistoric fishing in the aforementioned region. The archaeological evidence relies on characteristic material culture and faunal remains, the radiocarbon chronology of the sites, the importance they play in the reconstruction of the Holocene Arabian Sea coastal landscapes, and the intensity of peopling during different periods of habitation
La campagna di telerivamento nell’ambito del Progetto Via Annia: riflessioni, bilanci e prospettive
No full textThe ‘Via Annia Project’ was implemented by Local Government Bodies, the University of Padova and
Heritage Departments of Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia operating in synergy with the aim of the recovery and
appreciation of the Via Annia. The road was built around the middle of the 2nd century BC and ran probably from
Adria to Aquileia. For many centuries most of its traces were lost and the route was largely erased from the maps.
Archaeological excavations, geomorphological surveys and a number of remote sensing investigations were carried
out between 2007 and 2011 in order to increase the scientific knowledge. Museum exhibitions, road signs, tourist
guides have made it more familiar to the general audience, providing a symbolic reconstruction.
Remote sensing involved the analysis of aerial photographs, multispectral orthophotos and high-resolution satellite images, as well as the acquisition of about 30,000 oblique aerial panchromatic photographs during 100 hours of flight along three years of research. This resulted in the GIS mapping of about 2000 lines and polygons of archaeological interest. Cropmarks provided excellent ‘archaeological visibility’. Some relevant features were ground-validated through coring, archaeological excavations and, in the outstanding site of Altinum, geophysical prospection
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
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
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