Codex Climaci Rescriptus is worth knowing about. It is the only surviving Greek witness to Hipparchus’s previously lost star catalogue, is over seven centuries earlier than the next surviving witness of Eratosthenes, and is the earliest witness to parts of Aratus’s Phaenomena.…
“Your authors are a microcosm of the state of the world,” Mariellen Sandford wrote me, when I told her of the challenges we faced completing our issue.…
Part of a series of blog posts celebrating the 10th anniversary of the journal Advances in Archaeological Practice. It may come as somewhat of a surprise that the Digital Reviews Editor for Advances in Archaeological Practice is calling for an end to the concept of ‘Digital Archaeology’.…
IFTR 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland gave us the opportunity to meet with Senior Editor of Theatre Research International (TRI) Silvija Jestrovic.…
It is safe to say that archaeology generally isn’t the most well funded discipline. Many of you reading this probably know this all too well.…
The acknowledgments section of the Monico Bayesian paper expresses gratitude to “Deb Nichols, John Watanabe, Sophie Nichols-Watanabe, Robert (Bob) L. Kelly, and the Dartmouth Coach for inspiring and facilitating the development of some concepts in this paper.”
In July of 2021, Zalia Avant-garde, an eighth grader from Harvey, Louisiana, became the first Black student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the organization’s ninety-six-year history.
The very title of § 45 in Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment seems to undermine from the outset the possibility of a dialogue with contemporary art: “Beautiful art is an art to the extent that it seems at the same time to be nature”.…
In our next issue, TDR is publishing two significant essays in the TDR Comments section of the journal: “A Letter from Moscow” by a scholar who lives there; and Richard Schechner’s “Postpone the Great Game.”…
The American Civil War’s impact upon Sino-American commerce – a topic explored more thoroughly in my recent article with the Historical Journal – is more fascinating still given the parallel unfolding of China’s own Taiping Civil War.
At the end of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Auguste Dupin, the prototype of the analytical detective, offers a disparaging verdict on the Parisian Prefect of Police.…
The Journal of Hellenic Studies is making some key improvements which will better support authors and readers. Most importantly, from 17 August 2022, contributions to the journal should be submitted using the new online submission system on the Cambridge Core website.…
All I hoped as I embarked on my doctorate devoted to cross-cultural encounters between the International Brigades and the Spaniards who hosted them in the course of the Spanish Civil War was that those cross-cultural encounters had actually taken place.
In the spring semester of 2020, I developed and taught a class on archaeological data reuse and digital literacy at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.…
‘Human sacrifice’ isn’t a practice that we tend to associate early modern Europe. Nor would we expect it to be defended in a court of law. Yet this is exactly what happened in 1783 in a case concerning a British slaving ship, the Zong.
In a special session of parliament held on 27 February 2022, German Minister of Finance Christian Lindner discussed how the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected his country’s energy strategy. “We will build-up reserves of gas and coal, in order to increase our perseverance,” he said.
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open accessAims to give the widest possible understanding of Pakistan, past, and present Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…
Carl Schmitt, “the famous professor of constitutional and international law who later became a Nazi” (as Hannah Arendt once put it), continues to shock and intrigue, to convince and exasperate.…
At times during the past few years, evidence sessions of the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have made headline news, for example Dominic Cummings’ account of his time advising the Prime Minister during the COVID-19 pandemic, or controversial witness statements about diversity and inclusion in STEM careers.…
As we are both children of the 70s and 80s, the things that we were taught about the history of democracy in public school somehow does not track with what we understand about the topic today.…
Nobody knows when and why did the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) begin its nuclear weapon program. Our current state of knowledge regarding these simple questions is at best partial; scholars point to different periods as its origin such as 1950 (when the Korean War broke out), 1958 (when the United Stated brought nuclear weapons to South Korea), 1964 (when the People’s Republic of China tested its first bomb), or 1979 (when South Korea started its undeclared enrichment activities that were revealed only in 2014).…
For many decades, archaeologists have used the analysis of materials such as ceramics to establish, through typologies and varieties, their own qualitative characteristics, such as shapes, decorations, or surface finishes.…
When only four words of a poet’s entire output in a specific genre survive to the present day, is there really anything of substance that we can say about this poetry on the basis of such slender remains?…
In “Getting Your Feet Wet,” (out now open access in Advances in Archaeological Practice) the authors outline barriers to inclusivity writ large in underwater archaeology and provide solutions for increasing diversity in the field.…
Antiwar activists carve “no to war” in frozen rivers, spray-paint slogans of peace in the snow. They scrawl on banknotes, putting their opposition into circulation. Despite the looming threat of 15-year prison sentences, artists and activists in Russia continue to protest Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
One of the most exciting developments in archaeology over the past few years has been the rapid growth in population-scale studies using ancient DNA.…
Portable braziers, frequently made of clay utensils and appearing in different shapes (Fig. 1:a), are associated with the process of cooking. They were popular across the Mediterranean from the Early Hellenistic to the Early Roman periods.
Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica breaks off at a crucial and tantalising moment on the island of Peuce at the mouth of the Hister (Danube). With Medea’s assistance, Jason has managed to obtain the golden fleece and the Argonauts have departed Colchis for Greece with Medea in tow.
“I found my identity because of pottery,” says Amalia, who runs an Indigenous pottery workshop in General Paz, a city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Amalia and her family found archaeological pottery fragments by chance. These findings encouraged them to experiment and learn based on their observations of the techniques and designs of the ancient pottery.
In 2020, the city of Rijeka, which is located in the Kvarner gulf in present-day Croatia, was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture. Although the Covid surge heavily affected the cultural programmes, Rijeka’s multi-layered history has still proved able to stir up historical controversies.
The European Union (EU) has been hit by a series of crises in the past two decades testing its sense of solidarity and institutional design, namely the 2008 financial crisis, the migration crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and now most recently, the Russia-Ukraine War.…
Her students were struggling. Nicole Jacobs, a Shakespeare scholar and lecturer at California Polytechnic State University, had been noticing for a while.…
Archaeology in K-12 and undergraduate classrooms can be used to promote cultural awareness and sensitivity, provide a means of critical thinking, promote cultural awareness and sensitivity, create an awareness of archaeological research, as well as promoting the stewardship of the past.…
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union established the Central and Western Europe as its sphere of domination. In the states which found themselves within it, absolute power was assumed by communist parties, which followed instructions coming from Moscow.…
A new analysis of ancient faeces found at the site of a prehistoric village near Stonehenge has uncovered evidence of the eggs of parasitic worms, suggesting the inhabitants feasted on the internal organs of cattle and fed leftovers to their dogs.…
This reflection was prompted by my research into Poland's display at the International Labour Exhibition Turin in 1961 which is the subject of my current article. An unassuming symbol of a stick figure placed within parentheses was designed by a creative duo Wojciech Zamecznik and Jan Lenica.
After over two years of living in a pandemic, most everyone is familiar with COVID-19’s periods of incubation, progression and contagion. Similar issues were of great concern to physicians in early modern Europe.
From 1906 through 1910, archaeologists from the British School at Athens (BSA) conducted excavations at the well-known sanctuary of Artemis Orthia in Sparta (see Dawkins 1929).…
The times they are a-changing, Bob Dylan once noted, and so are the concepts we use to make sense of the world.…
In 2016, we were privileged to edit a special section in Advances in Archaeological Practices on lidar in Mesoamerica and are delighted that the editors of AAP have invited us to provide an update to that special section in this blog. At that time, lidar acquisition was still uncommon, with only a handful of projects being fortunate enough to acquire the data that was revolutionizing settlement studies in tropical areas like Mesoamerica.
There can be little doubt that the Anglo-Norman (or English) invasion of the twelfth century was one of the most important events of Irish history. By the time it took place it had been considered for some years by the English king, Henry II, and some modern commentators have been disposed to regard it as an inevitability.
My article analyses the entanglement of neutrality and displacement in two European colonial territories in South China – British-ruled Hong Kong and Portuguese-ruled Macau – during the Second World War in East Asia (1937-1945).
We take an archaeothanatological approach to the study of burial disturbances in northeastern and central-eastern Brazil from 12,000 years BP to 200 years BP.…
The ratification of the Paris Agreement opened a new chapter in Turkey’s climate policies. Followed by the declaration of a net-zero emissions target for 2053, Turkey’s ratification of the agreement came after a six-year delay, with exhausting bilateral post-Paris negotiations.…
As one of the editors and authors of Rome: An Empire of Many Nations. New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, it seems to me that the volume’s becoming open access affirms the purpose of the book and the field which it investigates.…
Research at Spirit Eye Cave did not take the course I envisioned. In the 1950s and 1960s, this cave, located on a private ranch in West Texas, was a pay-to-dig site. It was extensively dug, all too common with the vast tracts of private land that typify Texas. Initially, the goal of my research was to salvage any information about when the cave was occupied, and to examine the perishable collections.
My aim in this piece, however, is to suggest that there is much to be gained from turning to Hobbes’s immediate Parisian surroundings—for, France had its own share of intellectual and political turmoil during the decade of 1640s.
The Chinese political thinker Liu Xiaofeng is widely considered a key figure in the formation of the “Chinese Straussian School,” a loose intellectual faction that preached anti-liberal doctrines and advocated a quasi-theological form of authoritarian leadership in contemporary China.
Since the demise of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), known as the “Mahatma” or the Great Soul, numerous studies have unsurprisingly been published about him, particularly concerning his concept of “non-violence,” a central virtue of his anti-colonial satyagraha campaign. It is tempting to think that nothing new can be offered on the subject. However, by reading his writings in Gujarati, his native tongue, it is possible to reveal important and original insights.
Happy birthday! Advances in Archaeological Practice: A Journal of the Society for American Archaeology turns ten this year. You might not think that the birth of a journal is that big of a deal and certainly doesn’t warrant recognition a decade later.…
Until 5 years ago, if asked my profession, I’d have said I’m a scientist engaged in basic biomedical research to combat viral diseases.…
The article contributes, instead, to new writings about ‘popular individualism’ in this period, showing how large scale political movements around ‘the individual’ reshaped cultural and social life.
The Roman Catholic Church has, in most historical and theological analyses, had a rather hostile relationship to liberal modernity, despite the fact that the church helped to produce the modern world and the thought patterns that continue to govern it.
My article argues that various segments of Dutch society, at one time or another, preferred fleeting acts of solidarity to open protests and active resistance against the Nazis.
In 1978, an internal report by the Securitate, the Romanian political police, openly blamed the National Office for Tourism-Carpathians (ONT-Carpathians), the state agency in charge of running tourism, of ‘commercialism’.
It’s sometimes assumed that colonial war crimes were the product of fascism, but I discuss some atrocities of the Liberal era and the military culture that helped to produce them.
Myers’s work excavates how the subjective shock of the end of a long-standing model of the organized industrial workplace in Italy manifested as a disruption of people’s sense of temporal continuity.
This article contributes to the project of expressing the meaning of the kingdom of God by drawing on the practical and theoretical work of the Zapatistas as a theological mediation.
Fighting the enemies of Fascist Italy was a major concern for Benito Mussolini’s regime not only within the peninsular borders but also within the colonial administration. This was especially true in the colonial territories that constitute present-day Libya at the time of Fascist rule, where the Duce government established a branch of the Special Tribunal for the Defence of the State based in Rome, having an analogous composition and goal.
For more than a year now, on every weekday at noon, academics at Boğaziçi University gather in the main courtyard for a silent vigil turning their backs against the Rector’s Building carrying posters demanding the removal of the appointed rector and his appointees, the reinstitution of rectorate elections and the annulment of arbitrary decisions such as the opening of new programs.…
Since the beginning of 2022, Turkey has witnessed an unexpected strike wave. The strike by couriers at Trendyol, an e-commerce platform bought by Alibaba in 2018, has attracted the most public attention.…
We live in an era of absence. Lockdowns, quarantines, hospitals, and face masks: fear of contamination disappears the body from public space and discourse.…
How did a Scottish Catholic bishop who as a young man was imprisoned for participating in the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion help his community enter mainstream political culture? By holding fast to the very principles that formed the religious basis of Jacobitism.
In the first half of the twentieth century, locust plagues were managed by imperial governments, advised by their scientific institutions.
Guzmán’s article can be used to teach about and discuss the ways race, racism, and inequality have been—and continue to be—artificially constructed via extra-legal means and motives.
This article explores the career of Iosif Lavrent’evich Mordovets who was the chief of the Soviet political police in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) for more than a decade (1944-1955). His long career as a chekist started in Ukraine in the early 1930s continuing through the Great Terror in 1937-38 into 1940-41 Romanian Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union.
As a music historian teaching courses about racial inequality, I try to create an environment safe for students of color and challenging for the racially privileged.…
The history I tell in [my article] exemplifies how indispensable quotations can become... They invoke tradition, generating a sense of belonging and inspiring the young, and are involved in innovation, too.
Despite the fact that the leaders of the current governing alliance (Cumhur İttifakı– People’s Alliance) deny the possibility of a snap election, my short answer to the question in the title is “yes.”…
By focusing on the example of William Harvey and his travels, my article explores the difficulties encountered by those involved in collecting, preserving and transporting natural history specimens from the field to the museum or laboratory in the nineteenth century.
I wrote this article to take this past more seriously on its own terms, and to understand how the political, religious, and economic context of Ireland and its diaspora shaped a culture that, for historians of sexuality, will be familiar yet distinctive.
Between 1945 and 1953, scores of former fascists flocked to the Spanish capital; initially, they were just looking for a safe lay-over in their escape from Allied justice.
Lexica are the workhorses of Classical Studies. They’re the tomes that come most easily to mind when we joke that we spend our days ‘looking things up’. And so, the launch of a new lexicon for Ancient Greek is an event to be noticed.
Over the course of my research into Doctor Atomic, I found myself reflecting on this intertwining of the human and the technological, and how this manifested in the opera as well as in my research methods.
Authors Benjamin Carter, Jeff Blackadar and Weston Conner joined each other in conversation for this new blog post for Advances in Archaeological Practice.…
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