Download or read book La terra sigillata italica liscia dal quartiere ellenistico romano di Agrigento written by Antonella Polito and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morgantina Studies Volume VI written by Shelley C. Stone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-25 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavation of the ancient city of Morgantina in southeastern Sicily since 1955 has recovered an extraordinary quantity and variety of pottery, both locally made and imported. This volume presents the fine-ware pottery dating between the second half of the fourth century BCE, when Morgantina was a thriving inland center closely tied to the Hellenistic east through Syracuse, and the first half of the first century CE, when Morgantina had been reduced to a dwindling Roman provincial town that would soon be abandoned. Bearing gloss and often paint or relief, these fine ceramics were mostly tableware, and together they provide a well-defined picture of the evolving material culture of an important urban site over several centuries. And since virtually all these vessels come from dated deposits, this volume provides wide-ranging contributions to the chronology of Hellenistic and early Roman pottery. An introductory chapter sketches out a comprehensive history of the city, discusses the many well-dated archaeological deposits that contained the excavated pottery, and defines the major fabrics of the ceramics found at the site. The bulk of the volume consists of a scholarly presentation of more than 1,500 pottery vessels, analyzing their shapes, fabrics, chronology, decoration, and techniques of fabrication. This rich ceramic material includes significant bodies of Republican black-gloss and red-gloss vases, Sicilian polychrome ware, and Eastern Sigillata A, as well as early Italian terra sigillata, with numerous examples imported from Arezzo and other Italian centers, along with regional versions from Campania and elsewhere on Sicily. The relief ware includes important groups of third-century BCE medallion cups and hemispherical moldmade cups of the second and first centuries BCE. Morgantina was also an active center of pottery production, and the debris from several workshops has been recovered, enabling Shelley Stone to reconstruct the working techniques and materials of the local craftsmen, the range of ceramics they produced, and how their products were influenced by pottery imported to the site from elsewhere on Sicily, the Italian mainland, and even more distant centers. The volume also presents new information about the sources of the clay used by the Morgantina potters, as revealed by X-ray fluorescence analysis of selected vases.
Download or read book Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily written by Laura Pfuntner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sicily has been the fulcrum of the Mediterranean throughout history. The island’s central geographical position and its status as ancient Rome’s first overseas province make it key to understanding the development of the Roman Empire. Yet Sicily’s crucial role in the empire has been largely overlooked by scholars of classical antiquity, apart from a small number of specialists in its archaeology and material culture. Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily offers the first comprehensive English-language overview of the history and archaeology of Roman Sicily since R. J. A. Wilson’s Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990). Laura Pfuntner traces the development of cities and settlement networks in Sicily in order to understand the island’s political, economic, social, and cultural role in Rome’s evolving Mediterranean hegemony. She identifies and examines three main processes traceable in the archaeological record of settlement in Roman Sicily: urban disintegration, urban adaptation, and the development of alternatives to urban settlement. By expanding the scope of research on Roman Sicily beyond the bounds of the island itself, through comparative analysis of the settlement landscapes of Greece and southern Italy, and by utilizing exciting evidence from recent excavations and surveys, Pfuntner establishes a new empirical foundation for research on Roman Sicily and demonstrates the necessity of including Sicily in broader historical and archaeological studies of the Roman Empire.
Download or read book Life Exposed written by Adriana Petryna and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Download or read book Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico written by Vania Smith-Oka and published by Vanderbilt University Press (TN). This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ethnographically explores the construction of motherhood in indigenous Mexico. Adds to anthropological literature on reproduction, economic development, and motherhood. Explores how indigenous mothers are viewed and managed by welfare programs as well as how humor becomes a way for the women to cope with their own marginality"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Maternal Death and Pregnancy Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America written by David A. Schwartz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious sourcebook surveys both the traditional basis for and the present state of indigenous women’s reproductive health in Mexico and Central America. Noted practitioners, specialists, and researchers take an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the multiple barriers for access and care to indigenous women that had been complicated by longstanding gender inequities, poverty, stigmatization, lack of education, war, obstetrical violence, and differences in language and customs, all of which contribute to unnecessary maternal morbidity and mortality. Emphasis is placed on indigenous cultures and folkways—from traditional midwives and birth attendants to indigenous botanical medication and traditional healing and spiritual practices—and how they may effectively coexist with modern biomedical care. Throughout these chapters, the main theme is clear: the rights of indigenous women to culturally respective reproductive health care and a successful pregnancy leading to the birth of healthy children. A sampling of the topics: Motherhood and modernization in a Yucatec village Maternal morbidity and mortality in Honduran Miskito communities Solitary birth and maternal mortality among the Rarámuri of Northern Mexico Maternal morbidity and mortality in the rural Trifino region of Guatemala The traditional Ngäbe-Buglé midwives of Panama Characterizations of maternal death among Mayan women in Yucatan, Mexico Unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, and unmet need in Guatemala Maternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America is designed for anthropologists and other social scientists, physicians, nurses and midwives, public health specialists, epidemiologists, global health workers, international aid organizations and NGOs, governmental agencies, administrators, policy-makers, and others involved in the planning and implementation of maternal and reproductive health care of indigenous women in Mexico and Central America, and possibly other geographical areas.
Download or read book Agrigento L abitato antico Il quartiere ellenistico romano written by Ernesto De Miro and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2016-01-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il Quartiere ellenistico-romano di Agrigento rappresenta estesa e complessa esemplificazione della organizzazione urbana di una città greco-romana in Sicilia. Sito in un punto nevralgico della maglia urbana della antica città, esso ha costituito per oltre mezzo secolo campo di sistematici interventi di scavo e di ricerche, i cui risultati vedono con la presente monografia la definitiva pubblicazione, con i dovuti approfondimenti sia nel senso del riconoscimento delle particolarità dell'architettura domestica sia nel senso delle stratigrafie. Inoltre la notevole messe di dati e di elementi, accumulatisi nel tempo, ha trovato riordino e organizzazione verso una considerazione non solo di moduli struttivi e planimetrici, ma ancora aperture per una lettura delle dinamiche socio-politiche di contestualizzazione storica. Il Quartiere, sorto su precedenti urbanistici tardo-arcaici, riceve il suo impianto determinante nel periodo tardo ellenistico e si sviluppa in età romana imperiale sino alla decadenza tardo antica, assommando in sé significati e vicende caratterizzanti la città intera. Alla monografia di base urbanistico-architettonica si assoceranno nel tempo prossimo futuro singole monografie riguardanti i materiali molteplici che hanno segnato la vita del Quartiere. Ernesto De Miro è stato Soprintendente nei ruoli dell'Amministrazione statale alle Antichità e Belle Arti, dal 1968 al 1986 quale Soprintendente ai Beni Archeologici per le province di Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Enna, e nel 1986 anche per le province di Palermo e Trapani. E' stato ordinario dell'insegnamento di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte greca e romana presso l'Università di Messina dal 1986 al 1998. Direttore dell'Istituto di StudiMicenei ed Egeo Anatolici del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche dal 1989 al 1992. Direttore della Missione Archeologica dell'Università di Messina in Libia (Leptis Magna) dal 1988 al 1998. Ha al suo attivo una lunga attività di ricerche e sudi sulla Sicilia antica, su Agrigento e il suo territorio in particolare, dei cui valori è stato strenuo difensore nella sua attività di Soprintendente, e le cui ricerche ha continuato scientificamente a curare anche durante l'insegnamento universitario.
Download or read book La Sicilia Romana Studi Ceramologici Sulla Terra Sigillata Africana written by Mariano Morganti and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La sigillata africana è una classe di ceramica fine, da mensa, di qualità più o meno raffinata, coperta interamente o in parte da vernice di colore rosso-arancione, più o meno liscia e brillante, che, decorata in vario modo, ha ampia diffusione dal I al VIII sec. d.C. in tutto il Mediterraneo e soprattutto lungo le aree costiere. I materiali africani sono veicolati per mare e ritenuti "merce di accompagnamento" delle anfore e del loro contenuto (l'olio africano). La sigillata africana C proviene dalla regione della Bizacena della Tunisia centro-orientale e si diffonde sporadicamente all'inizio del III sec. d.C. per essere poi sostituita dalla produzione in sigillata D. Tra la fine del III e gli inizi del IV secolo d.C. si assiste ad una ripresa delle officine della Tunisia settentrionale intorno all'area dell'antica Cartagine, che coincide con il maggior sviluppo della produzione in sigillata africana D tanto che proprio in questo momento si registra la massima diffusione della cultura figurativa africana nel Mediterraneo occidentale. A partire dalla seconda metà del IV sec. d.C. però, comincia un primo periodo di decadenza che porta, dapprima, ad una provincializzazione delle produzioni e, poi, ad un loro lento e costante declino a favore di forme di qualità, argilla e vernice sempre più scadenti. La classe dimostra una certa standardizzazione dei tipi e dunque l'esistenza di una tradizione ben consolidata, testimoniata dall'elevatissimo numero di produzioni. La dominazione vandala sembra comportare un declino delle esportazioni verso l'Oriente, dove la sigillata D è sostituita dalle ceramiche pergamene e cipriote mentre in Italia Meridionale la diffusione di tale ceramica riprende con la riconquista bizantina. La sua definitiva scomparsa si deve invece all'invasione araba dell'Africa (647-698 d.C.) che comporta la rottura dell'asse Cartagine-Costantinopoli e, di fatto, interrompe l'esportazione della classe.
Download or read book The Early Glyptic of Tell Brak written by Donald M. Matthews and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 1997 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most comprehensive treatment of the art of Syria in the third millennium B.C. It is a catalogue of nearly 600 seals from Tell Brak, combined with a general study of the comparative material. It is both a basic word of reference and a new synthesis of the Syrian Early Bronze Age. relate to taxation during the New Kingdom.
Download or read book The Ur Nammu Stela written by Jeanny Vorys Canby and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ur-Nammu was king of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) around 2000 B.C. In 1925 a joint expedition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum discovered dozens of fragments of a monument in honor of Ur-Nammu. Because such works have rarely survived, the stela became one of the most famous examples of Near Eastern art, a status it retains today. The stela had been ten feet high with registers in relief of scenes of religious practices on both front and back. By 1927 the best pieces had been restored in Philadelphia into an imagined version of the stela, with plaster filling the gaps. But more than twice as many small or worn pieces were omitted from the restoration and dutifully stored in boxes at the Museum. Jeanny Vorys Canby realized that the early reconstruction had been too hasty, and her meticulous, painstaking reexamination reveals a wealth of new scenes that revise our understanding of the monument. This book includes the justification of the reconstructions, description of the scenes, speculation on the ancient fate of the stela, as well as a description of each piece with photograph and drawing. These vigorous, innovative scenes contradict the long-held view from the old reconstruction that the monument was dull and repetitive. In fact, it is fresh and vibrant, with dynamic scenes peopled by beautifully sculpted actors. Entirely new evidence is presented here in scientific detail, including appendices from Steven Tinney, of the Museum's Babylonian Section, and Tamsen Fuller, conservationist. The book's conclusions will be of major significance to historians, archaeologists, art historians, biblical scholars, and anthropologists working in the ancient Near East and to scholars concerned with institutions of kinship, religion, and everyday life. University Museum Monograph, 110
Download or read book Africa in the Iron Age written by Roland Anthony Oliver and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975-10-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook providing the only comprehensive and up-to-date account of African history between 500 B.C. and 1400 A.D. Also useful to students of archaeology.
Download or read book The Uruk Countryside written by Robert McCormick Adams and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adapa and the South Wind written by Shlomo Izre'el and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001-06-23 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholarly world first became aware of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind when it was discovered on a tablet from the El-Amarna archive in 1887. We now have at our disposal six fragments of the myth. The largest and most important fragment, from Amarna, is dated to the 14th century B.C.E. This fragment of the Adapa myth has red-tinted points applied on the tablet at specific intervals. Izre’el draws attention to a few of these points that were missed in previous publications by Knudtzon and Schroeder. Five other fragments were part of the Assurbanipal library and are representative of this myth as it was known in Assyria about seven centuries later. The discovery of the myth of Adapa and the South Wind immediately attracted wide attention. Its ideology and its correspondence to the intellectual heritage of Western religions precipitated flourishing studies of this myth, both philological and substantive. Many translations have appeared during the past century, shedding light on various aspects of the myth and its characters. Izre’el unveils the myth of Adapa and the South Wind as mythos, as story. To do this, he analyzes the underlying concepts through extensive treatment of form. He offers an edition of the extant fragments of the myth, including the transliterated Akkadian text, a translation, and a philological commentary. The analysis of poetic form that follows leads to understanding the myth as a piece of literature and to uncovering its meanings. This study therefore marks a new phase in the long, extensive research into this Mesopotamian myth.
Download or read book Leaving No Stones Unturned written by Erica Ehrenberg and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2002 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fitting tribute to the life and achievements of Donald P. Hansen, this collection includes contributions by Z. Bahrani, R. A. Fazzini, R. E. Freed, P. O. Harper, J. and D. Oates, D. O'Connor, E. L. Ochsenschlager, E. Holmes-Peck, W. H. Peck, H. Pittman, M. Van de Mieroop, M. S. Venit, K. Wilson, I. J. Winter, and many others.
Download or read book Heartland of Cities written by Robert McCormick Adams and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Akhenaten and Nefertiti written by Cyril Aldred and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1973 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Download or read book Villages in the Steppe written by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to shed some light on the nature of prehistoric human occupation in the Balikh valley of northern Syria. Human settlement in the Balikh valley has a long history, and due to its central geographic position the region was of great importance in terms of communication and cultural interaction in many periods.
