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The Emergence and the Architectural Development of the Tumulus Burial Custom in NW Greece (Epirus and the Ionian Islands) and Albania and its Connections to Settlement Organization
No full textDuring the post-war era, excavations of tumuli constituted the bulk of our knowledge of Albania’s prehistory, as attested by the large number of these burial monuments known so far. In contrast, the numbers of tumuli in NW Greece seems to be limited.
In the Ionian Islands the earliest tumuli (Leukas-R Graves) are erected at the end of EH II, in Northern Albania at the end of the local EBA (1900/1800 B.C.), in Central Albania (chronologically) at the end of MH, while in southern Albania and Pogoni in mainland Epirus in 12th c. B.C. At Ephyra, at the estuary of the Acheron river, the first tumulus is erected during LH IIIA. This paper aims to pinpoint the emergence of these burial monuments in Albania and NW Greece and their main architectural features, while attempting to describe their architectural development both in space and through time. Finally, an attempt will be made to connect tumuli with settlements and to analyze, wherever possible, their role in the formation of a cognitive landscape in the minds of their builders.Oikonomidis Stavros, Papayiannis Aristeides, Tsonos Akis. The Emergence and the Architectural Development of the Tumulus Burial Custom in NW Greece (Epirus and the Ionian Islands) and Albania and its Connections to Settlement Organization. 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. 185-201. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée. Série recherches archéologiques, 58
Before Minoan Crete: Sir Arthur Evans' travelling across the Balkans (Τίτλος περίληψης)
No full textσ. [17]-43Περιέχει εικόνεςΚείμενο στα ελληνικά με περίληψη στα αγγλικά με τον τίτλο: Before Minoan Crete: Sir Arthur Evans' travelling across the BalkansThe aim of this article is to unfold a half-lightened side of Sir Arthur Evans’ plethoric multidimensional personality, which is connected to his travels in the Balkans before his arrival to Crete andhis “noisy” pioneering work concerning the discovery and the archaeological definition of the Minoan
civilization. Inspired by the mythological “gravity” of the Mediterranean World, influenced by the ar-
chaeological family past, lived and educated within an intellectual urban environment, urged by the
passion of knowledge and adventure, and following the “fashion” of Orientalism and Romanticism,
he is travelling across the Western and Southern Balkans during the sensitive years 1871-1884, a period
of dense political events, due to the Berlin Treaty (1878), which resettled the European territory of the
Ottoman Empire based on the interests of the Great Powers by recognizing the independency of Ser-
bia, Montenegro and Bulgaria and the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina to the Austrian-Hungarian
Empire. As official correspondent of The Manchester Guardian and loyal follower of the liberal policy
of Gladstone, Sir Arthur Evans supported the Slav independency, fact that led him to imprisonment
by the Austrian authorities. Using his journalistic quality, he settled in Ragusa and he is revealing his
interest in studying the remains of many ancient and Roman cities, in locating the continental and
maritime network of Roman routes, in collecting seals and coins, in describing the customs and the
clothes of the local mountainous populations, in negotiating between the tough Turkish beys and the
Slav rebellions and in offering help and accommodation to the Bosnian refugees. The sides of this rich
political, antiquarian and scientific activity were published during his keepership in the Ashmolean
Museum. His books are a combination of a vivid description, accompanied always with his personal
drawings, and of a precise, detailed research on many aspects of the Roman period of unknown cities
and villages, from the important Adriatic ports to the center of the Balkans. His narrations are enriched
with specific reports on the natural sources of the region, on the new proposed regime of administra-
tion, on the character of the local people, on the religious syncretism, on the importance of the Illyrian
culture and on the support of the national Slav issue without hesitating to oppose to the anti-Slav policy
of the British Consulates. His published work had a very serious impact, since it was a synthesis of cul-
tural information and of specific propositions about the future of the Balkans, which familiarized the
European audience and political elites to the details of the difficult Eastern Issue. Arthur Evans
was stained by his presence in the Balkans, even after his Minoan adventure, and he never stopped in-
teresting in the future of the region, as proved by his official participation in the Balkan Committee
(1912-1919) concerning the redefinition of the borders between the new born States. “Travelling” with Arthur Evans across the Balkans is really a fascinating experience for any scholar.ΕισαγωγήΤα πρώτα ταξίδια στα Βαλκάνια και οι πρώτες εκδόσειςΗ παραμονή του A. Evans στα ΒαλκάνιαΤο συγγραφικό του έργοΕπίλογοςΔωδώνη: Τεύχος Πρώτο: επιστημονική επετηρίδα του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων; Τόμ. 43-44 (20114-2015
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
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koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Το ταφικό έθιμο της ανέγερσης τύμβου κατα μήκος της Ιονίας και Αδριατικής ακτής ως πολιτιστικό και κοινωνικό φαινόμενο
Full text linkThis article deals with the two-folded role of the burial custom of tumulus along the Adriatic and Ionian Arc, both as an impressive architectural construction that excels in the surrounding area, as well as a symbolic place of collective memory for the local communities. Initially, the main architectural features –the central burial, the soil and the enclosure– are presented, which, with varied local peculiarities, determine the emergence of the tumulus almost simultaneously in these regions and its evolution in the course of the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Furthermore, the article is focused on the chronological and geographical distribution of the tumulus custom starting from the northern Adriatic and ending in the southern part of the Ionian Sea with the scope of unfolding local similarities and differences. The social role of the tumulus as a labour-intensive, enduring and highly visible ancestral monument – signal (sema), is then addressed, via both its topographical correlation to its settlement and the surrounding landscape, and via the ceremonial acts performed in several of them in the study area. Finally, through the choice of selected groups of finds and the adoption of common burial practices, the cultural relations of these regions and the special bond developed between them during the Bronze Age are emerging
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