An Archaeological Survey of the Radium Springs Area, Southern New Mexico

During October and November 1976, the Center for Archaeological Research of The University of Texas at San Antonio carried out an archaeological survey of the Radium Springs area in southern New Mexico (Fig. 1). This survey was conducted under the terms of a contract (YA-5l2-RFP6-80) between the Center and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Dr. Thomas R. Hester, Director of the Center, was Project Administrator, and Dr. Joel D. Gunn and Dr. Paul R. Katz served as Principal Investigators. Fieldwork was under the supervision of Dr. Gunn, with direct field responsibilities handled by Col. Thomas C. Kelly, Research Associate of the Center. Contract Officer for the BLM was Richard Meninger (Denver), and the Contract Officer\u27s Authorized Representative was Karen L. Way (Las Cruces)

Material Biographies: Identity, Meaning and Agency in the Cooke Daniels New Guinea Collections

Dispersed between museums in the UK and Australia, the Cooke Daniels collections comprise more than 2000 material objects, largely collected during the 1903-04 Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea. Led by William Cooke Daniels and Charles Seligman, the expedition continued the survey work begun by the 1898 Torres Strait Expedition, collating comparative material and visual data within the same evolutionary scientific framework. Often reducing people and things to abstractions in the interests of science (and colonialism), the expedition’s Cartesian position stands in ontological distinction to the sensate and relational worldview shared by New Guineans. Seeking a nuanced approach to questions of difference, the thesis conceives a copresent approach to relational biography that recognises moments of ontological displacement, from expedition empathy to New Guinean intentionality. Drawing on the work of Tim Ingold in particular, notions of ontological simultaneity and displacement (copresence) are the pivot around which stories from the collections emerge. Concentrating on expedition material from Central Province and colonial material, bequeathed to the expedition by Christopher Robinson, from Western and Gulf Provinces, PNG, stories explore how material things express identity, enact meaning-making and reveal agency. Patterned gourds, boards and modified skulls speak to the entanglement of scientific, colonial and Indigenous practices that make visible the formation of a complex and sometimes controversial collection. While stories can be projected onto things, copresent biographies materialise another view: the knowledge that arises through experiential engagement with people and things. In this way, collections remake themselves, revealing new stories – vital to our understanding of a shared past and shared futures. Relocating the Cooke Daniels collections at the centre of a shifting early twentieth century academic, political and cultural milieu, this first detailed study of the collections equally emerges as a pivot for new encounters and future stories

Art and science in depicting nature: building a botanical iconography through drawing and photography

O tema proposto centra-se na relação entre Artes Visuais, Natureza e Ciência. Parte do desenho de observação e da imagem fotográfica, com ênfase na fotomicrografia, para estudar as dimensões artística e científica nas representações gráficas da botânica. Com estudos de caso focados sobretudo no período vitoriano no Reino Unido e estendendo-se ao contexto português, a investigação proposta visa explorar as especificidades, paralelismos e complementaridades das variantes da imagem botânica enunciadas. A partir de uma análise de conjunto, propõe-se aferir o potencial dessas imagens para a construção de uma iconografia botânica mais completa e significativa para as áreas da Arte e da Ciência. Centra-se, por isso, no espaço de representação pictórica onde ambas disciplinas se encontram. Este trabalho pretende contribuir para o fomento da produção científica nas áreas de interceção entre Arte e Ciência, associando-se à valorização artística e científica dos elementos da Natureza.The research we will carry out is focused on the interconnection between Visual Arts, Nature and Science. It focuses on observation drawing and the photographic image, with emphases on photomicrography, to study the technical image and the artistic image in the graphic depiction of botany. With case studies focused mainly on the Victorian period in the United Kingdom and extended to the Portuguese context, the proposed research seeks to explore the specificities, parallels and complementarities of these variants of the botanical image. With an integrative analysis as a starting point, we assess the potential of these images for the construction of a more complete and meaningful botanical iconography for the areas of Art and Science. It focuses, therefore, in the space of pictorial representation where both disciplines meet. With this work, we aim to contribute for the promotion of scientific production in the areas of interception between Art and Science, associated with a growing artistic and scientific appreciation of Nature and its elements

Tradescant’s rarities: essays on the foundation of the Ashmolena museum 1683 with a catalogue of the surviving early collections

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Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border

The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary the Basentello separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in South East Italy. For millennia the valley has functioned both as a cultural and political divide between the two regions, and as a channel for new ideas transmitted from South to North or vice versa depending on the political and economic conditions of the time. Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from Neolithic to Late Medieval, taking account of changing environmental conditions, and setting the changes in a broader political, social and cultural context. There are three levels of focus. The first is on the results of a field survey (1996-2006) in the Basentello valley by teams from the Universities of Alberta, Edinburgh, and Bari, directed by the authors. The second concerns the discoveries of earlier field surveys in the late 1960s and early 1970s undertaken in connection with excavations on Botromagno near Gravina in Puglia. The third is a much broader synthesis of the results of recent scholarship using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources to reconstruct an archaeological history of the valley and the surrounding area. The creation of a vast imperial estate at Vagnari around the end of the 1st century BC and its long-lasting impact on the pattern of settlement in the area is a significant theme in the later chapters of the book

Peopled Landscapes (Terra Australis 34)

This impressive collection celebrates the work of Peter Kershaw, a key figure in the field of Australian palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Over almost half a century his research helped reconceptualize ecology in Australia, creating a detailed understanding of environmental change in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Within a biogeographic framework one of his exceptional contributions was to explore the ways that Aboriginal people may have modified the landscape through the effects of anthropogenic burning. These ideas have had significant impacts on thinking within the fields of geomorphology, biogeography, archaeology, anthropology and history. Papers presented here continue to explore the dynamism of landscape change in Australia and the contribution of humans to those transformations. The volume is structured in two sections. The first examines evidence for human engagement with landscape, focusing on Australia and Papua New Guinea but also dealing with the human/environmental histories of Europe and Asia. The second section contains papers that examine palaeoecology and present some of the latest research into environmental change in Australia and New Zealand. Individually these papers, written by many of Australia’s prominent researchers in these fields, are significant contributions to our knowledge of Quaternary landscapes and human land use. But Peopled Landscapes also signifies the disciplinary entanglement that is archaeological and biogeographic research in this region, with archaeologists and environmental scientists contributing to both studies of human land use and palaeoecology. Peopled Landscapes reveals the interdisciplinary richness of Quaternary research in the Australasian region as well as the complexity and richness of the entangled environmental and human pasts of these lands

Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border

The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary the Basentello separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in South East Italy. For millennia the valley has functioned both as a cultural and political divide between the two regions, and as a channel for new ideas transmitted from South to North or vice versa depending on the political and economic conditions of the time. Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from Neolithic to Late Medieval, taking account of changing environmental conditions, and setting the changes in a broader political, social and cultural context. There are three levels of focus. The first is on the results of a field survey (1996-2006) in the Basentello valley by teams from the Universities of Alberta, Edinburgh, and Bari, directed by the authors. The second concerns the discoveries of earlier field surveys in the late 1960s and early 1970s undertaken in connection with excavations on Botromagno near Gravina in Puglia. The third is a much broader synthesis of the results of recent scholarship using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources to reconstruct an archaeological history of the valley and the surrounding area. The creation of a vast imperial estate at Vagnari around the end of the 1st century BC and its long-lasting impact on the pattern of settlement in the area is a significant theme in the later chapters of the book

Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies : Round Tables

Following the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, the Organizing Committee decided to produce an online publication of Proceedings from the Round Tables. According to the official title of the congress, Byzantium - a World of Changes, AIEB together with the Organizing Committee, have decided to implement some changes to the concept of the Round Tables. The aim of these changes were to encourage discussion at the Round Tables by presenting preliminary papers at the website in advance. The idea was to introduce the topic and papers of the individual Round Tables that would be discussed, first between the participants, and then with the public present. Therefore, the conveners of the Round Tables were asked to create Round Tables with no more than 10 participants. They collected the papers, which were to be no longer than 18,000 characters in one of the official languages of the Congress and without footnotes or endnotes. Conveners provided a general statement on the goal of each roundtable and on the content of the papers. The present volume contains papers from 49 Round Tables carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics, developed over the last five years since the previous Congress. The topics show diversity within fields and subfields, ranging from history to art history, archeology, philosophy, literature, hagiography, and sigillography. The Round Tables displayed current advances in research, scholarly debates, as well as new methodologies and concerns germane to all aspects of international Byzantine studies. The papers presented in this volume were last sent to the congress organizers in the second week of August 2016 and represent the material that was on hand at that time and had been posted on the official website; no post-congress revisions have occurred. We present this volume in hope that it will be an initial step for further development of Round Tables into collections of articles and thematic books compiled and published following the Congress, in collaboration with other interested institutions and editors. With this volume, the organizers signal their appreciation of the efforts of more than 1600 participants who contributed, both to the Round Tables and to the Congress in general