SOCIOECONOMIC CRISIS AND CULTURAL INNOVATION: THE LBA‐EIA EAST MEDITERRANEAN VIA A CASE STUDY OF LASITHI, CRETE

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-416
Author(s):  
Saro Wallace
Keyword(s):  
East Mediterranean ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
Socioeconomic Crisis

scholarly journals Effect of geographic range discontinuity on species differentiation—East-Mediterranean Abies cilicica: a case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Sękiewicz ◽  
Monika Dering ◽  
Maciej Sękiewicz ◽  
Krystyna Boratyńska ◽  
Grzegorz Iszkuło ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Range ◽  
Species Differentiation ◽  
East Mediterranean

scholarly journals Tomorrow’s mundane is today’s extraordinary: A case study of a plastered installation during Neolithization

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leore Grosman ◽  
Timna Raz ◽  
David E. Friesem
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Original Function ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Mixed Sediments ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Rule Out

Abstract For reconstructing past human ways of life we study mundane remains, but in order to detect special worldviews and behaviors we endeavor to observe the extraordinary embedded in those remains. There are many ways to define the ‘extraordinary’. Here we center on early occurrences of phenomena that later become mundane, rendering them ‘extraordinary’ through being rare compared to later frequent appearances. This study explores such extraordinary phenomena with relation to the processes of Neolithization in the Southern Levant, focusing on a round plastered installation (Feature 6) that was unearthed in the Late Natufian village of Nahal Ein Gev II (ca. 12,000 calBP). To investigate the feature’s function, we conducted a micro-geoarcheological analysis of the walls and fill to understand its use and formation processes, using Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and micromorphology. Our results show that the walls were not exposed to elevated temperatures and that the interior of the installation was filled with mixed sediments. We therefore rule out the use of the feature as a cooking installation or a kiln. The interior mixed assemblage indicates secondary infilling after the feature was no longer in use for its initial purpose, thus challenging the identification of its original function. To date, there are no parallels for such lime and clay plastered installations in the Natufian culture. Yet, this type of feature becomes increasingly common with the advance of Neolithization where such features served as storage installations, integral to the farming way of life. We conclude that Feature 6 in NEG II is ‘extraordinary’ in the context of the Late Natufian, heralding the development of clay lined storage installations. We argue that this example of ‘extraordinary’ within the long process of Neolithization in the Near East helps to illuminate the gradual process of cultural innovation in which new features appear at first as extraordinary phenomena which later will become mundane.

scholarly journals La innovación cultural como nueva mirada contra la despoblación rural. Caso de estudio: Urueña, España = Cultural innovation as a new look against rural depopulation. Case study: Urueña, Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Sonia Sansone-Casaburi ◽  
José Miguel Fernández Güell ◽  
Frank Marcano Requena
Keyword(s):  
Rural Environment ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
Rural Depopulation ◽  
New Look

ResumenSe aborda la despoblación del medio rural desde la mirada de pueblos que han sido innovadores para mantener su vitalidad. En la investigación se identificaron cinco tipologías de innovaciones de las cuales en este artículo se analiza la tipología “Innovación cultural”. El objetivo planteado es entender las variables que explican el éxito de la innovación cultural y si pueden ser replicables en otros casos. Como metodología, se plantea el análisis de un caso exitoso: Urueña, un poblado de 182 habitantes que tiene cinco museos y alberga la primera Villa del Libro de España. Como resultado se obtienen las variables que hacen exitosa a una innovación cultural.AbstractThe depopulation of the rural environment is approached from the perspective of peoples that have been innovative to maintain their vitality. In the research, five typologies of innovations were identified, of which the "Cultural innovation" typology is analysed in this article. The proposed objective is to understand the variables that explain the success of cultural innovation and whether they can be replicated in other cases. As a methodology, the analysis of a successful case is proposed: Urueña, a town of 182 inhabitants that has five museums and houses the first Villa del Libro in Spain. As a result, the variables that make a cultural innovation successful are obtained.

Observations on soil and groundwater contamination with nitrate: A case study from Lebanon-East Mediterranean

2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Darwish ◽  
T. Atallah ◽  
R. Francis ◽  
C. Saab ◽  
I. Jomaa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
East Mediterranean

Value, meaning and context in the interpretation of Mycenaean ceramics

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Whitelaw
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
General Argument

The present article is a welcome contribution to the study of Mycenaean ceramics and to the study of East Mediterranean production, consumption and distribution systems. The general argument for an archaeology of value has wide-reaching relevance, while the specific case study usefully raises general issues of approach and methodology.

Securitizing Energy Cooperation: Israel's Regional Shift in the East-Mediterranean

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elai Rettig
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
East Mediterranean ◽  
Beneficial Result ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Does energy securitization promote or hinder regional cooperation over energy resources? This paper argues that policymakers frame energy issues as existential threats to facilitate both outcomes, depending on how they perceive the reliability of their country's energy supply. When countries are confident in their supply, they begin to seek regional cooperation opportunities that they had previously rejected. Rather than abandon existential rhetoric that served to prevent cooperation when supply was vulnerable, policymakers adopt opposing constructs of security and direct them toward different audiences to gain their support. When addressing the international community, policymakers employ neoliberal concepts of security as a mutually beneficial result of trade and cooperation. When addressing domestic audiences, policymakers employ realist paradigms of security as competition toward self-preservation and dominance. Israel serves as a case study to test this argument. This paper examines how major natural gas discoveries in 2009 shifted longstanding Israeli isolationism and encouraged it to seek deeper economic ties with its neighbors. To promote its new policy, the Israeli government argued before its domestic audience that gas exports are essential for creating leverage against the EU and preventing terrorism on its borders, while simultaneously arguing toward foreign audiences that the exports serve to promote regional unity.

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