Rediscovering the rural landscape of Carthage's hinterland: a reassessment of the Carthaginian Countryside survey

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Rachael A. Sycamore ◽  
Brian G. Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Gis Analysis ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Legacy Data ◽  
The City

AbstractThis article discusses a GIS analysis of the results of the Carthaginian Countryside survey conducted by Joseph Greene from 1979 to 1983. The 136 sites identified by the project constitute one of the largest datasets of site locations recorded in the hinterland of Carthage from multiple time periods. The results of this survey have not generally been integrated into modern studies of the region because the project was never fully published and has not been digitised. This paper discusses the challenges of working with legacy data and the importance of using GIS to both preserve and analyse the Carthaginian Countryside survey. The results presented here reveal new insights into the antiquity of the rural landscape around the city of Carthage and the importance of revisiting legacy datasets to contextualise current research.

scholarly journals ARCHITECTURE IN THE ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION: MUSLIM BUILDING OR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayat Ali Yassin ◽  
Dr. Nangkula Utaberta
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Architecture ◽  
Architectural Models ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The City

The main problem of the theory in the arena of islamic architecture is affected by some of its Western<br />thoughts, and stereotyping the islamic architecture according to Western thoughts; this leads to the breakdown<br />of the foundations in the islamic architecture. It is a myth that islamic architecture is subjected to the<br />influence from foreign architectures. This paper will highlight the dialectical concept of islamic architecture or<br />muslim buildings and the areas of recognition in islamic architecture. It will also widen the knowledge in the<br />characteristics of each point in time according to the stages of islamic architecture from the prophetic age<br />moving through the architecture outside the city of Medina, the Caliphs, the Umayyad, Abbasid, and<br />architectural models by spatial and time periods, taking Iraq as the example to explain how the Islam influents<br />on architecture and vice versa.

scholarly journals Evolution of anatomical concept usage over time: Mining 200 years of biodiversity literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashanti Manda ◽  
Todd J Vision
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Concept Drift ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Temporal Data Mining ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Historic Record ◽  
Concept Usage ◽  
Over Time

The scientific literature contains an historic record of the changing ways in which we describe the world. Shifts in understanding of scientific concepts are reflected in the introduction of new terms and the changing usage and context of existing ones. We conducted an ontology-based temporal data mining analysis of biodiversity literature from the 1700s to 2000s to quantitatively measure how the context of usage for vertebrate anatomical concepts has changed over time. The corpus of literature was divided into nine non-overlapping time periods with comparable amounts of data and context vectors of anatomical concepts were compared to measure the magnitude of concept drift both between adjacent time periods and cumulatively relative to the initial state. Surprisingly, we found that while anatomical concept drift between adjacent time periods was substantial (55% to 68%), it was of the same magnitude as cumulative concept drift across multiple time periods. Such a process, bound by an overall mean drift, fits the expectations of a mean-reverting process.

scholarly journals Modern architecture: articulation of regional identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the study of the relationship between cultural landscape and architecture. The article considers the development of the city of Almaty since its Foundation as city in the context of relations between architecture and cultural landscape. The master plan is considered in different time periods, issues and problems of modern urbanisation of the city are identified, including the problem of taking into account regional identity in territorial planning.

Women’s Bodies, Femininity, and Spacetimemattering: A Baradian Analysis of the Activewear Phenomenon

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Julie E. Brice
Keyword(s):  
International Business ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Hegemonic Femininity

Over the past decade, activewear has become a booming international business and cultural phenomenon. It has simultaneously been critiqued for its pervasive neoliberal, postfeminist, and healthism rhetoric and the ways it continues to (re)produce hegemonic femininity. In this paper, the author drew upon new materialist theory, specifically Karen Barad’s concept of spacetimemattering, to contribute to this body of literature, providing an alternative perspective on the production of femininity and feminist politics within activewear. Using a Baradian-inspired approach, this paper brought various material-discourses and events from multiple time periods into dialogue with the activewear phenomenon to (re)think the production of femininity. Specifically, the analysis explored how activewear entanglements across various spatiotemporalities challenge appearance-based femininity and increase the visibility (and acceptance) of the moving female body. Through this exploration, the author provided a way to (re)imagine feminist politics that are embedded in women’s everyday fitness practices.

Bricks in the Making of Race and Place: Excavating a Lieu de Souvenir in New Orleans

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-32
Author(s):  
Angel Adams Parham
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The City ◽  
Race And Place

This essay facilitates a multi-dimensional immersion into the life and rhythms of New Orleans, an entrée to the past that equips us to better understand the present and, from there, critically and creatively to envision our possible futures together. We explore the Faubourg Tremé by traversing layers of its lieux de souvenir - places of remembering, a concept inspired by but distinct from Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire - across three time periods. Each lieu de souvenir we visit from 1720 to the present will highlight material and symbolic foundations in Tremé that help us to understand key aspects of New Orleans’s past and present. The object that will guide our travel and meditation through each layer is the lowly but highly serviceable brick. At a purely material level, bricks are the literal building blocks of the city. Roads were paved with them and homes and other buildings were constructed with bricks as well. And at a symbolic level, bricks carry multiple rich and complex significations: Who makes them? How does their manufacturing shape the lives of the laborers who create them? Who buys them, and who profits from their sale? Tracing the brick and its uses throughout each lieu de souvenir sheds light on key social relationships, inequalities, and cultural practices that form the foundation of New Orleans’s past and present.

Chasing Martians

2020 ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
David A. Weintraub
Keyword(s):  
Hydrothermal System ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Subsurface Environment ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Abundant Supply ◽  
River Valleys

This chapter reviews the question of whether life could exist on Mars today as certain conditions must hold true in order for chemically based life to develop and take root. It points out that Mars has ancient, dried-up river valleys, deltas, and lake-like formations, and the Sun shines brightly on Mars. It also describes Mars' abundant supply of atmosphere and soil that supply a handful of bio-essential elements: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorous, and sulfur. The chapter looks at evidence that was summarized in 2016 by Ray Arvidson and James S. McDonnell, which reveals multiple time periods when Mars was warm enough and wet enough for long enough to support life. It mentions the Opportunity rover that explored the ancient wide Endeavor Crater and found that the crater generated a hydrothermal system that would have produced a relatively habitable subsurface environment.

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