scholarly journals Exploring the Utility of Bathymetry Maps Derived With Multispectral Satellite Observations in the Field of Underwater Archaeology

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radoslaw Guzinski ◽  
Elias Spondylis ◽  
Myrto Michalis ◽  
Sebastiano Tusa ◽  
Giacoma Brancato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Data ◽  
Field Work ◽  
First World War ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Underwater Archaeology ◽  
World War ◽  
Optimal Allocations ◽  
Satellite Bathymetry ◽  
A Site ◽  
First World

AbstractBathymetry maps derived with satellite-based multispectral sensors have been used extensively for environmental and engineering coastal studies and monitoring. However, so far this technique has not been widely exploited in other coastal applications, such as underwater archaeology. Submerged settlements and shipwrecks are often located in water depths where the application of multispectral satellite data is feasible. This could lead to more efficient field work practices thus enabling more optimal allocations of costs and labour during archaeological excavations. This study explores the contribution of processed satellite bathymetry maps to the recording of two archaeological coastal sites: a submerged prehistoric settlement in Greece and a shipwreck of a modern cargo vessel in Italy. The results indicate that even though the accuracy of satellite derived bathymetry is high, the level of detail (spatial resolution) is not sufficient to fully replace field-based measurements. However, the use of satellite data complements the existing techniques and can help to place the archaeological sites within a broader spatial context as well as to efficiently monitor the deterioration of a site due to natural causes or human activity, which inevitably leads to risk management. When the study of larger objects is involved (for example First World War shipwrecks) the potential of using satellite data in underwater archaeological studies becomes more promising.

scholarly journals “The place is a prison, and you can’t change it”

2017 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-212
Author(s):  
Brook Durham
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Expeditionary Force ◽  
The Social ◽  
The First World War ◽  
A Site ◽  
First World

Speedwell Military Hospital was a hospital for veterans of the Canadian Expeditionary Force located in the newly-built Ontario Reformatory in Guelph. Speedwell was part of a nation-wide program administered by the Department of Soldiers’ Civil Re-Establishment (DSCR) during the First World War intended to neutralize some of the social dangers associated with demobilization. As the health of individual veterans at Speedwell became closely associated with the nation’s economic strength, the ultimate goal of hospitals like Speedwell was the transformation of sick and wounded veterans into healthy and productive workers. However, as the needs of patients changed after the war, the initial promise of Speedwell as a site of rehabilitative labour made it clearly unsuitable for veterans in need of long-term convalescence care.

The Old Subconscious Trail of Dread

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-108
Author(s):  
Sam Wiseman
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Gothic Fiction ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Industrial Modernity ◽  
May Sinclair ◽  
A Site ◽  
Modernist Fiction ◽  
First World

This chapter explores links, in terms of imagery, symbolism, theme, and form, that exist between a range of rural-set texts spanning the period from the fin de siècle to the First World War. It argues that the evolution of the British rural Gothic in this period reveals sympathies between canonically modernist fiction (D.H. Lawrence and May Sinclair, for example) and more formally conventional texts (such as those of M.R. James and Walter de la Mare). This suggests a broader understanding of what constitutes modernist experimentation. The chapter also traces the influence of metropolitan and industrial modernity upon the rural Gothic imaginary, and considers the dialectical relation between these two cultural and geographical spaces. It ultimately argues that in the Gothic fiction and ghost stories of the period, we see rural Britain represented as a site of uncanny returns, in which repressed traumas, anxieties and violence re-emerge.

Prelom za prizadeto lokalno prebivalstvo: potres v Brežicah 29. januarja 1917

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2018) (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Nećak
Keyword(s):  
Local Population ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
First World War ◽  
English Summary ◽  
World War ◽  
Affected Area ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Earthquake Zone ◽  
First World

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: First World War, Brežice earthquake and its surroundings, January 29, 1917, restoration of earthquake zone, collection of funds for reconstruction, Aleksander Tornquist, Franciscan monastery Excerpt: Towards the end of the First World War, in the middle of winter, on January 29, 1917, Brežice and its surroundings was devastated by a severe earthquake, one of the worst in recent Slovenian history. Written exclusively on the basis of primary archival sources, this paper speaks of the suffering of the local population brought about by this natural disaster, of the difficult restoration of the affected area, of collection of resources for the affected population, and the response of local, provincial and state authorities, including the Habsburg dynasty, to the situation. It especially touches on the role and importance of military authorities (e.g. the Fifth Army, or the replacement battalion of the 87th infantry regiment), which were, in wartimes, the only authorities in charge of helping the affected population. Additionally, this paper highlights the field work of one of the most important seismologist in the monarchy at the time, Prof. Dr. Aleksander Tornquist, and the problem of restoration of the completely collapsed Franciscan monastery in Brežice.

"Warn the Duke"

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-112
Author(s):  
Paul Miller-Melamed
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
First World War ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Popular Representations ◽  
A Site ◽  
First World

How has the Sarajevo assassination been conjured and construed, narrated and represented, in a wide variety of media including fiction, film, newspapers, children’s literature, encyclopedias, textbooks, and academic writing itself? In what ways have these sources shaped our understanding of the so-called “first shots of the First World War”? By treating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (28 June 1914) as a "site of memory" à la historian Pierre Nora, this article argues that both popular representations and historical narratives (including academic writing) of the political murder have contributed equally to the creation of what I identify here as the “Sarajevo myth.”

Human health risks related to the consumption of foodstuffs of plant and animal origin produced on a site polluted by chemical munitions of the First World War

2017 ◽  
Vol 599-600 ◽  
pp. 314-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Gorecki ◽  
Fabrice Nesslany ◽  
Daniel Hubé ◽  
Jean-Ulrich Mullot ◽  
Paule Vasseur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
First World War ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Health Risks ◽  
The First World War ◽  
A Site ◽  
First World

scholarly journals Dramatic Representation of Trench Space as an ‘Experiential Ruin’ in R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End and Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie

2018 ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Jonathan Patterson
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Spatial Theory ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
A Site ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World

Physical forms of ruin and psychological forms of ruination is an area within spatial theory that will enhance literary studies, especially literature of the First World War. The literary representation of the trench as a ruined space is a predominant feature of literature that emerges from the Great War. Among the different genres, it is drama that is ideally poised to offer a critique of the way both physical and psychological ruin can be depicted on the stage. Both R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End and Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie consciously depict trench space as a site of embodied trauma for soldiers who experienced trench warfare and, consequently, trench space functions as an ‘experiential ruin.’ This ‘embodied exchange’ emphasizes the relationship between the battlefield (or cite of trauma) and the actual war-related trauma itself. Both Sherriff and O’Casey have created plays that show the decaying landscape and decaying psyche as inseparable victims to the devastation of the First World War.

The Roman Surveyors

1962 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. A. W. Dilke
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Field Work ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Standard Edition ◽  
First World

It is curious that so little has been written in English about the Roman land surveyors and their work. Most of the nineteenth-century study of the subject was carried out by German scholars. In 1812 Niebuhr stressed the importance of the extant writings of the agrimensores and suggested that field-work in Italy would contribute to our understanding of them. In 1833 a Dane, Captain Falbe, noticed that the squares into which the land round Carthage was divided had sides corresponding to 2,400 feet and thus equalled a normal centuria. The standard edition of the agrimensores, edited by Blume, Lachmann, and others, appeared in 1848 and 1852. Mommsen contributed to this work, and he and other German scholars extended the study of Roman surveying. Before the First World War it was a Swede, Thulin, who furthered research on the ancient writings. Apart from that in German the bulk of the work on the subject is in Italian.

Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-199
Author(s):  
Scott Lyall
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
A Site ◽  
First World

Looking at numinous relationships with Scottish landscape in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song (1932) and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River (1937), Scott Lyall addresses literary engagement with strategies for post-war reconstruction. He suggests that, for Gibbon and Gunn, post war redemption is presented as possible through a return to a pre-Christion autochthonous spirituality connected to the land, not as patrie, but as a site of radical political and personal awakening.

scholarly journals Use of Prisoners of War Labor in Karelia During the First World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-629
Author(s):  
Alexander Krivonozhenko
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
First World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Strategic Defense ◽  
Labor Service ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
First World

The article describes the study of using prisoners' labor in Karelia during the First World War. The scientific novelty of the study is that for the first time the angle of approach to this problem was beyond the traditional context of the issue, that usually covers the details of the Murmansk railway construction and prisoners labor service. The author analyzed the proposals which were put forward by the Zemstvos and by the governing bodies of the Olonets and Arkhangelsk provinces. They proposed to use the labor of prisoners in the implementation of several infrastructure projects, which were aimed at achieving major strategic defense objectives, as well as at solving local economic problems. The text has a special focus on the problem of using prisoners of war in the field work in Karelia. The study concluded that the labor of war prisoners was hardly used in Karelia. The only major construction project, which included prisoners labor, was the construction of the Murmansk railway. Several reasons for that were defined and presented in the article. Firstly, it was due to the reluctance of the Central authorities to spend money on major projects duplicating the railway to Murmansk, which was under construction. Secondly, it was caused by the position of the Olonets provincial administration, which resisted the additional inflow of prisoners of war to Karelia. Thirdly, it was dependent on the specificities of local peasant population and its regional economic structure.

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