scholarly journals Debunking the Diffusion of Senet

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-27
Author(s):  
Walter Crist
Keyword(s):  
Popular Media ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Old Evidence ◽  
New Evidence

Abstract Senet—perhaps the most famous of all the games of antiquity—has captured the imagination of scholars and lay people alike. Recognized as a game played by the Egyptians since the beginnings of archaeological research, and one of the first ancient games to be recognized outside of Greek and Roman texts, it has been one of the most discussed games of antiquity both in academia and in popular media. Nevertheless, understanding of this game remains incomplete. New evidence and more nuanced interpretations of old evidence continues to expand on our knowledge of senet. This paper seeks to correct some of the misconceptions about the game, which often seek to trace the development of later board games to senet. Furthermore, it aspires to encourage scholars from all disciplines who study games to critically reevaluate common conceptions of games relevant to their regions and time periods.

Athens and Tenos in the Early Hellenistic Age

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Reger
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
Greek History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Old Evidence ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Standing Problem

Some recent work on the history of Athens and Tenos in the third century B.c. has brought to light new evidence and new interpretations of old evidence for this notoriously shadowy period of Greek history. Reflection on this material has suggested to me solutions to a few minor puzzles (Sections IA, IB, III), a contribution to a long-standing problem in the history of Athens in the early third century (Section IB), and a new explanation for the entry of Rhodos into the war with Antiokhos (Section II).

scholarly journals Edge-ground axes in Pleistocene Greater Australia: new evidence from S.E. Cape York Peninsula

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 77-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.J. Morwood ◽  
P.J. Trezise
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Cape York ◽  
New Evidence

Recent archaeological research on S.W. Cape York Peninsula indicates that edge-ground axes were in use in this region of north Australia before 32 k.y.a. Edge-grinding is one of the hallmarks of the Neolithic in Europe but the evidence now suggests that it may have been part of the technological repertoire of the earliest Aboriginal colonists in some areas of Australia-New Guinea. This paper discusses some of the implications of edge-ground artefact distribution and chronology in the region.

scholarly journals A Dialogue with the Data: The Bayesian Foundations of Iterative Research in Qualitative Social Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasha Fairfield ◽  
Andrew Charman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Bayesian Probability ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Development Data ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Old Evidence ◽  
New Evidence

We advance efforts to explicate and improve inference in qualitative research that iterates between theory development, data collection, and data analysis, rather than proceeding linearly from hypothesizing to testing. We draw on the school of Bayesian “probability as extended logic,” where probabilities represent rational degrees of belief in propositions given limited information, to provide a solid foundation for iterative research that has been lacking in the qualitative methods literature. We argue that mechanisms for distinguishing exploratory from confirmatory stages of analysis that have been suggested in the context of APSA’s DA-RT transparency initiative are unnecessary for qualitative research that is guided by logical Bayesianism, because new evidence has no special status relative to old evidence for testing hypotheses within this inferential framework. Bayesian probability not only fits naturally with how we intuitively move back and forth between theory and data, but also provides a framework for rational reasoning that mitigates confirmation bias and ad-hoc hypothesizing—two common problems associated with iterative research. Moreover, logical Bayesianism facilitates scrutiny of findings by the academic community for signs of sloppy or motivated reasoning. We illustrate these points with an application to recent research on state building.

scholarly journals A Decade of Portable (Hand-Held) X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer Analysis of Obsidian in the Mediterranean: Many Advantages and Few Limitations

MRS Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (33-34) ◽  
pp. 1769-1784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Tykot
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Trade And Exchange ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Fluorescence Spectrometer ◽  
Geological Source

ABSTRACTStarting in 2007, a portable, hand-held X-ray fluorescence spectrometer was used to elementally analyze and determine the geological source of obsidian artifacts in the Mediterranean, effectively replacing the instruments used in my previous research studies - INAA, LA-ICP-MS, ED-XRF and an electron microprobe with WDS. Approximately 400 geological obsidian samples from the Mediterranean area, and 8500 obsidian artifacts from prehistoric sites in Italy, France, Croatia, Malta, Tunisia, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt have been analyzed non-destructively by pXRF. Overall, the pXRF can distinguish all of the individual sources, based on the composition of Fe and trace elements Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, and Nb, as well as assign most artifacts to specific subsources and thus addressing archaeological research hypotheses about trade and exchange in many different time periods.

From Koguryǒ to T’amna

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-235
Author(s):  
Alexander Vovin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Old Evidence ◽  
New Evidence

This article recapitulates some old evidence for the Japonic linguistic substratum in Silla and Paekche in and for the lack of thereof in Koguryǒ. It also introduces some new evidence for the same linguistic distribution. The new evidence for Koguryǒ comes mainly from words recorded in Chinese dynastic histories and from additional Korean loanwords identified in Manchu, the new evidence for Paekche from Liang shu, while the new evidence for Silla is based on the analysis of Silla placenames recorded in the Samguk sagi, which are traditionally considered to be opaque. The present article identifies a number of them as Japonic. Finally, I present the Japonic etymology for the former name of Chejudo island, T’amna.

scholarly journals New evidence of a Roman road in the Venice Lagoon (Italy) based on high resolution seafloor reconstruction

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fantina Madricardo ◽  
Maddalena Bassani ◽  
Giuseppe D’Acunto ◽  
Antonio Calandriello ◽  
Federica Foglini
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Transport System ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Venice Lagoon ◽  
Stable System ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Architectural Reconstruction ◽  
New Evidence

AbstractThis study provides new evidence of the presence of an ancient Roman road in correspondence to a paleobeach ridge now submerged in the Venice Lagoon (Italy). New high resolution underwater seafloor data shed new light on the significance of the Roman remains in the lagoon. The interpretation of the data through archive and geo-archaeological research allowed a three-dimensional architectural reconstruction of the Roman road. The presence of the ancient Roman road confirms the hypothesis of a stable system of Roman settlements in the Venice Lagoon. The study highlights the significance of this road in the broader context of the Roman transport system, demonstrating once more the Roman ability to adapt and to handle complex dynamic environments that were often radically different from today.

THE FIRST AND SECOND FORTRESSES OF OMSK: RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION POSSIBILITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 378-386
Author(s):  
KORUSENKO M. ◽  
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GERASIMOV Yu. ◽  
ZDOR M. ◽  
ZAGORODNIKOVA D. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
Historical Center ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
The City ◽  
Center Research

The present article summarizes research related to demarcating the first and second Omsk fortresses. Fortifications of these landmarks have long been destroyed, the cultural layer only and partially complexes of buildings of the late 18th - first half of the 19th centuries have been preserved, but they are at risk in connection with active modern urban development. Active archaeological research during the last ten years has yielded an expanded informational database and new evidence illuminating the use of the territory in antiquity and providing insight on the cultural layer of the fortresses. The authors of the present paper have ascertained and precised on the city map the borders of both sites, using stratigraphic research, historical cartography, and archival record. The conclusion provides insight on the main problems of conservation of the researched objects of cultural significance, and on perspectives of their museum commitment within the current framework of development of the historical center of Omsk. Keywords: Omsk, the first and second Omsk fortresses, archaeological sites, historical center, research, museum

Bracketing the Copan Dynasty: Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic Settlements at Copan, Honduras

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Kam Manahan ◽  
Marcello A. Canuto
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Classic Maya ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Early Postclassic ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Two Populations

AbstractArchaeological research within the Classic Maya center of Copan and in its surrounding rural regions has generated new data relating to the periods both preceding and following the center’s Classic period dynasty. Recent excavations at both Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic settlements have revealed more similarities between the inhabitants of these two “non-Classic” time periods than to the inhabitants of the intervening and better known Classic period. We explore this striking set of similarities in terms of settlement pattern, spatial organization, architecture, material culture, and ritual deposits and spaces. We suggest that the similarities between the Copan region’s Late Preclassic and Early Postclassic populations and their mutual differences with intervening Classic period peoples reflecta cultural connection between these two populations.

scholarly journals The Dorian Invasion reviewed in the light of some New Evidence

1921 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-221
Author(s):  
Stanley Casson
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Greek History ◽  
New Evidence

The Dorian invasion, as an episode in Greek history, exhibits few complexities. Ancient tradition is unanimous upon the fact that the invasion was at once a more or less definite event or series of events in time and a clear turning-point in historical development. Modern historians of ancient Greece have largely twisted the comparatively clear tradition of antiquity into a variety of theories, and the whole question in their hands remains a problem which from their point of view is still sub iudice.Archaeological research on the other hand, as is not infrequently the case, serves to amplify and explain the ancient traditions in a more satisfactory way. No very clear attempt has as yet been made by archaeologists to establish the facts of the Dorian invasion or to track down the historical Dorians. But the results of recent research in the Peloponnese on sites where tradition places the Dorians in fullest force points to a culture at these sites which, appearing about the eleventh century B.C, has all the characteristics of the culture of an invader, and differs radically and completely from what we know to have been mainland culture during the millennium preceding the eleventh century B.C.The purpose of this paper is to review the archaeological evidence concerning the Dorians in the light both of the literary tradition and of some new archaeological discoveries.

The Théâtre du Marais in 1644: A New Look at the Old Evidence Concerning France's Second Public Theatre

1984 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Golder
Keyword(s):  
General Attitude ◽  
History Of ◽  
Old Evidence ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Better Than ◽  
New Look

The history of the Théâtre du Marais is linked indissolubly with the name of Mme S. Wilma Deierkauf-Holsboer, the Dutch theatre historian whose archival researches brought to light some thirty years ago such a wealth of unsuspected new documentation about the theatre itself, the actors who worked there and the plays they presented. In 1954, in the first of her two-volume Théâtre du Marais, she published the central document for any understanding of the theatre's physical disposition in the early part of its life: the mémoire de ce qu'il faut faire au jeu de paume des Marais, a carpenters' contract which describes the reconstruction work to be carried out after the theatre had been destroyed by fire in January 1644. Historians were quick to pay tribute, not only to the thoroughness of Deierkauf-Holsboer's research, but also to the validity of her interpretation of the new evidence. In 1957 the late Tom Lawrenson established what soon became the general attitude:The indefatigable researches of Mme Deierkauf-Holsboer have finally dragged this house, after centuries of neglect, into the light of day. We now have a very good idea of the aspect it must have presented after its rebuilding … in October 1644. We can do no better than to give the main details of her interpretation of her discovery, Mémoire de ce qu'il faut faire.…

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