scholarly journals Report: Abstracts from the 2018 Caddo Conference in Idabel, Oklahoma

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Regnier
Keyword(s):  
Poster Session ◽  
Oklahoma City ◽  
Red River ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Friday Afternoon ◽  
The World ◽  
Thursday Evening ◽  
Archaeological Work

The 2018 Caddo Conference was held March 8-10, 2018 at the Museum of the Red River in Idabel, Oklahoma. Fifty attendees registered for the conference. The conference began with a reception at the museum on Thursday evening. On Friday, the program included eight papers and presentations covering archaeological work in Texas and Oklahoma and a longer presentation on the rebuilding of the Caddo house at Caddo Mounds State Park in Texas. A poster session was also held on Friday afternoon. Conference attendees were given a tour of the collections housed at the museum, which include a large collection of Caddo vessels and objects from all over the world. Friday ended with dances by the Metro Oklahoma City (OKC) Caddo Culture Club, beginning with the Turkey Dance and a delicious barbecue dinner held at the museum. On Saturday, the eight presentations covered sites in Arkansas and Oklahoma, Spiro iconography, and included a presentation on the Spiro exhibit forthcoming at the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Just before breaking for lunch on Saturday, Caddo Culture Club and Metro OKC Caddo Culture Club members led a song using the large drum on exhibit in the museum.

Introduction: The Translation History of Virgil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Braund ◽  
Zara Martirosova Torlone
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

The introduction describes the broad landscape of translation of Virgil from both the theoretical and the practical perspectives. It then explains the genesis of the volume and indicates how the individual chapters, each one of which is summarized, fit into the complex tapestry of Virgilian translation activity through the centuries and across the world. The volume editors indicate points of connection between the chapters in order to render the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Braund and Torlone emphasize that a project such as this could look like a (rather large) collection of case studies; they therefore consider it important to extrapolate larger phenomena from the specifics presented here

Happiness in Nations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruut Veenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Large Collection ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Happiness ◽  
Research Findings

Today1 there is increasing support for the idea that governments should aim at greater happiness for a greater number of citizens. Is this a mission impossible? The following questions arise in this context: (1) Is greater happiness in a nation feasible? (2) If so, can governments do much about it? (3) If so, what can governments do to raise happiness in their country? (4) How does the pursuit of happiness fit with other political aims? In this paper, I take stock of the available research findings on happiness that bear answers to these questions. To do this, I use a large collection of research findings gathered in the World Database of Happiness. These data show that greater happiness is possible, and indicate some ways to achieve this goal. The pursuit of public happiness fits well with several other policy aims.

Machine Learning Arrives in Archaeology

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-191
Author(s):  
Simon H. Bickler
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Rapid Identification ◽  
First Century ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Archaeological Analysis

OverviewMachine learning (ML) is rapidly being adopted by archaeologists interested in analyzing a range of geospatial, material cultural, textual, natural, and artistic data. The algorithms are particularly suited toward rapid identification and classification of archaeological features and objects. The results of these new studies include identification of many new sites around the world and improved classification of large archaeological datasets. ML fits well with more traditional methods used in archaeological analysis, and it remains subject to both the benefits and difficulties of those approaches. Small datasets associated with archaeological work make ML vulnerable to hidden complexity, systemic bias, and high validation costs if not managed appropriately. ML's scalability, flexibility, and rapid development, however, make it an essential part of twenty-first-century archaeological practice. This review briefly describes what ML is, how it is being used in archaeology today, and where it might be used in the future for archaeological purposes.

scholarly journals ĐẶC ĐIỂM HỆ THỐNG SÔNG CỔ VÀ TÁC ĐỘNG NHÂN SINH DỰA TRÊN KẾT QUẢ MÔ HÌNH TIẾN HÓA TỈ LỆ LỚN KHU VỰC CHÂU THỔ SÔNG HỒNG

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-478
Author(s):  
Mai Duc Dong ◽  
Phung Van Phach ◽  
Nguyen Trung Thanh ◽  
Duong Quoc Hung ◽  
Pham Quoc Hiep ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
River System ◽  
River Network ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Red River ◽  
River Systems ◽  
Red River Delta ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The Simclast model has been verified and applied effectively in simulating the delta development for some major deltas in the world. In this study, we applied the model Simclast for simulating the history of the Red river delta development in late Pleistocene-Holocene. Results of the model reveal that the mainland of study area had reduced rapidly during transgression period (10,000-8,000 BP). The morphology changed significantly in the paleo-Red and Day river systems, but slightly in the paleo Thai Binh river system. The paleo-river network had been active in upper part before 11,000 BP and then shifted seaward until 2,000 BP. The river-sea interaction causes erosion and accumulation; as a result the morphology changed remarkably. The paleo-Thai Binh river had been inactive until 5,500 BP and then it was active but the morphology had not varied remarkably. The recent coastline generated from Simclast is relatively in accordance with the present coastline.

The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Michael A. Gomez
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Central America ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
The World ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vedic Period ◽  
Early Human

This chapter discusses the consistent omission of early and medieval Africa in world and imperial histories. West Africa is certainly left out of the narrative of early human endeavor, and only tends to be mentioned, with brevity, in conjunction with European imperialism. Nevertheless, substantial archaeological work has been underway in West Africa for decades, particularly in the middle Niger valley. For it was during the period of the Shang, Chou, Shin, Han, and Tang dynasties of China, the Vedic period in India, and the Mayans in central America, that another urban-based civilization flourished in West Africa, in the Middle Niger region. The chapter then considers the history of civilization in the Middle Niger, which is a study of the multiple ways in which communities continually adjust to and engage with one of the more “variable and unpredictable” environments in the world. Indeed, the story of the Middle Niger connects directly with the celestial preoccupations of big history in that much of its climatic variability is explained by slight alterations in solar radiation, produced in turn by the intricacies of the sun's cyclical patterns.

Response to the Unthinkable

2016 ◽  
pp. 582-624
Author(s):  
Ashley Maynor
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Oklahoma City ◽  
Finish Line ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
Boston Marathon ◽  
Sandy Hook

From Oklahoma City to Columbine to the Boston Marathon finish line, individuals around the world have responded to violent mass deaths publicized in mainstream media by creating ever-larger temporary memorials and sending expressions of sympathy—such as letters, flowers, tokens, and mementos—by the tens and even hundreds of thousands. Increasingly, there is an expectation that some, if not all, of the condolence and temporary memorial items will be kept or saved. This unusual and unexpected task of archiving so-called “spontaneous shrines” often falls to libraries and archives and few protocols, if any, exist for librarians and archivists in this role. This chapter aims to provide insight and guidance to librarians or archivists who must develop their own unique response to unanticipated and unthinkable tragedies. Response strategies are covered in both a discussion of the history and literature surrounding temporary memorials and three disaster case studies: the 1999 Texas A&M Bonfire Tragedy, the 2007 Virginia Tech Campus Shooting, and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Tragedy.

Tracing (de)colonial options in German philology around 1900

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Ingo H. Warnke
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Linguistic Practices

The Berlin Lautarchiv holds a large collection of historical recordings with POWs during World War I. These recordings were produced with the prisoners in German camps by a group of German linguists, anthropologists, and musicologists in an ambitious project to ‘collect the languages of the world’. The acoustic documents were archived and are now digitally available. Most of the recordings with African prisoners and civilian internees were never translated, yet some of them surfaced in radio broadcasts and publications. By means of approaching acoustic, visual, and written traces in European archives, which relate to two of the speakers and their biographies, this chapter engages with linguistic practices, with epistemic regimes that framed the project of recording in camps, as well as its racist assumptions at specific moments of colonial knowledge production.

Ontology-based analysis of the large collection of historical Hebrew manuscripts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet ◽  
Gila Prebor ◽  
Isaac Miller
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Data Enrichment ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Library Catalogue ◽  
Event Based ◽  
New Framework

Abstract In this paper, we present a new semi-automatic methodology for construction of event-based ontology from the library catalogue of the largest collection in the world of metadata records of historical Hebrew manuscripts. Based on the constructed ontology, we developed and implemented a new framework for catalogue data enrichment, correction, and its systematic quantitative analysis. Finally, we demonstrate the results of the proposed large-scale analysis of three most prominent event types in the corpus, as well as a few cross-event relations and trends.

Split-Twig Figurines in the Grand Canyon

1958 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Schwartz ◽  
Arthur L. Lange ◽  
Raymond de Saussure
Keyword(s):  
Colorado River ◽  
Grand Canyon ◽  
Senior Author ◽  
The South ◽  
The World ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Area Of Study

The Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona has long been a favorite area of study for geologists from all parts of the world, but until recently little intensive archaeological work has been done within the canyon itself. In 1953 the senior author began to investigate Cataract Creek Canyon, the only major drainage leading from the Coconino Plateau on the south to the Colorado River. Also in this year Walter W. Taylor (1954) made a quick survey of the lower reaches of the Grand Canyon by boat, but due to high and fast water he was unable to locate many sites. The present project was the first major excavation to be carried on in the main canyon area and it revealed material that should stimulate further work in the region.

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