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"Roman Colonial Landscapes: Ager Venusinus"
No full textProgetto in collaborazione tra Università Foggia (Italia) Univerisità di Leida (Olanda), Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma (KNIR) e Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata.
This project investigates the role of non-urban settlements in Roman colonial expansion in the formative phase of the Roman empire (4th-1st centuries BC). It challenges the traditional, urbanized city-state model of Roman colonies by proposing instead a distinctive, non-urban settlement organization, within which clustered sites such as villages played key-roles.
Preliminary research suggests a pioneering role of small rural communities in Roman colonial enterprises, but as yet little is known about the physical reality of such settlements and their functioning in the colonial settlement network. The project proposes to examine Roman village communities and their role in Roman colonial enterprises through a combination of ancient historical analysis with archaeological science-based methods
Settling the Apennines in the Bronze Age. New data from the Tappino Valley Area
No full textResearch on mobility and connectivity in protohistoric southern Italy has predominantly
focused on coastal communities and their integration into the Late Bronze Age
Mediterranean economic and cultural networks (XIV-XII century BC). These routes of
commerce and cultural exchange not only spurred technological innovation (e.g. the use
of potter's wheel) but also served as catalysts for the emergence of social and economic
complexity among indigenous populations. In contrast, coeval inland communities across
the Apennines have traditionally been considered rather isolated and secluded due to
their exclusion from the Mediterranean-wide exchange networks. However,
archaeological evidence suggests that these groups developed alternative, internal
connections. Facilitated by mountain routes, these networks established a functional
economic organization and cultural dynamism, but its traces are still few and far
between.
Recent non-invasive field investigations in the mountainous area surrounding the
Tappino River Valley (modern Molise, southern Italy) - including pedestrian surveys,
geophysics, and drone imagery - resulted in the discovery of several pre-Samnite sites,
ranging in chronology from the Middle Bronze Age (XVIII-XIV century BC) to the VII/VI
century BC. The examination of these sites, particularly in a region where previous data
were limited, provided a starting point for delving into aspects such as location
preference, settlement patterning and the special characteristics and functioning of
these sites. Moreover, the analysis of pottery production aided in tracing interactions
with neighbouring Apennine communities (notably in Campania, Abruzzo, and Marche),
which furthered our understanding of the role of cultural exchange in shaping the
region's history.
This paper adopts a multi-scalar approach, moving from individual sites to broader areas
and trying to identify similarities that may serve as evidence for connections. We will
present the new discoveries and discuss their contribution to our understanding of
Bronze Age communities that settled the Apennines before historical times
A Mediterranean micro-valley: survey results from the Carapelle valley
No full textIn this paper, we present the results of survey activities conducted in the Carapelle Valley area (CB, Molise). Preliminary findings offer insights into the long-term development of settlement systems in the region, with evidence covering most phases from the Prehistoric to Late Antique periods. Adopting a micro-regional approach provides a well-defined and manageable spatial unit for an in-depth chronological study of long-term land use changes, particularly within rugged landscapes. This approach allows for the exploration of local variability and establishes a foundation for comparative analysis
Stek, T.D. 2008. <I>Sanctuary and Society in Central-Southern Italy (3rd-1st centuries BC). A Study into Cult Places and Cultural Change after the Roman Conquest of Italy</I>. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. 320 p. Promotores: prof.dr M. Gnade, University of Amsterdam, prof.dr E.M. Moormann, Radboud University Nijmegen. Trade edition: 2010. <I>Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy. A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society after the Roman Conquest.</I> Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 276 p.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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