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Open Access Journal: Akroterion

2012-05-27T06:25:00.000-04:00

Akroterion: Journal for the Classics in South Africa. Tydskrif vir die Klassieke in Suid-Afrika

ISSN 2079-2883 (online)

ISSN 0303-1896 (print)

Akroterion welcomes scholarly contributions on all aspects of Greek and Roman civilization. Preference is given to articles that will also appeal to the non-specialist. We particularly encourage submission of articles dealing with the influence and reception of the Classics.

Akroterion had its humble beginning in April 1956 under the name Newsletter. It was a product of the initiative of Prof. Frans Smuts and was primarily planned as a means of contact between the Department of Latin of the University of Stellenbosch and its old students, but very soon it elicited wider interest and was adopted by the Classical Association of South Africa as its official news medium. Today it is still received by members of the Classical Association as part of their membership privileges.
The name Newsletter was replaced with Akroterion in 1970. The following is an excerpt from the editorial page of vol.15, March 1970 :

Now at last, as readers will have noticed, the editorial committee has decided on a new name to replace the rather colourless and no longer suitable "Newsletter". It was chosen for the following reasons: Firstly Akroterion is published in and serves the southerly part of the African continent and we wanted to bring out this geographical connection in a classical name. The quest for a suitable and as yet "unemployed" nymph or muse proved fruitless. We then thought of the first name by which the southmost part of Africa was known to Western Europe in the fifteenth century - Cape of Good Hope, which soon became just The Cape. The Latin name Caput (or Promunturium) Spei Bonae did not sound as if it could supply anything and besides Spes Bona was rather hackneyed. Then we had recourse to the Greek word for Cape - Akroterion which was actually suggested by some wit of the nineteenth century - I think it was a minister of religion - who in its Dutch form used the word Agathelpidacroterian to denote someone from the Cape of Good Hope.
Akroterion, and now we mean this journal, wishes to denote by its name that it comes from the southern part of Africa and that it has to do with the Classics in this land, which in a wider sense than a mere cape juts out between the two old oceans already known to the ancients - the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
But Akroterion in Greek also means a height, a pinnacle, and this was a further consideration in deciding on this name for this journal, which would like to be the point of vantage from which everything that happens in the Classics in South Africa and even further afield may be viewed.
For more details about the beginnings of Akroterion, see the article by Mrs S F de Vries titled "Akroterion alias Newsletter: The early days" (Akroterion 28 [1983] 63-66).
Prof Frans Smuts was followed as editor of the journal by Prof P J Conradie. The present editor, Prof J C Thom, assumed this responsibility in 1996. During the period 2001-2008 Dr J C Zietsman functioned as editor.

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Greek Archaeological Mission in Mesopotamia Online

2012-05-26T08:08:00.000-04:00

Greek Archaeological Mission in Mesopotamia

The Faculty of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens obtained permission by the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Ministry of Culture of the Republik of Iraq to conduct excavations in two important archaeological sites:
Tell Nader, which dates between the 6th and early 1st millennium B.C. and lies on the outskirts of the city of Erbil
Tell Baqrta, which dates from the Chalcolithic down to the Isalmic period and lies approximately 28 km to the south of Erbil, near the village Minara
In addition, the Governor of the Erbil Province, Mr. Nawzad Hadi Mawlood, invited a Historical Research Team of the University of Athens in order to examine older and new theories concerning the location of the Gaugamela battlefield.

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K. Kopanias - C. Beuger - T. Carter - S. Fox - A. Hadjikoumis - G. Kourtessi-Philippakis - A. Livarda - J. MacGinnis, "The Tell Nader and Tell Baqrta Project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Preliminary Report of the 2011 Season." In SUBARTU (Archaeological Journal of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Forthcoming.
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K. Kopanias - C. Beuger - S. Fox - A. Hadjikoumis - A. Livarda, "Preliminary Results from the Excavation at Tell Nader in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq." In 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE). Warsaw, April 30 – May 4, 2012. Organised jointly by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw and Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw. Forthcoming.
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Conference Presentations: The Connected Past

2012-05-26T07:51:00.000-04:00

The Connected Past: People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History

A collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium
University of Southampton
24-25 March 2012
Held the two days prior to CAA 2012 at the same venue.

Sponsored by Archaeopress, The Classical Association, the Archaeological Computing Research Group, Oxford University Press, the University of Southampton USRG Complexity in Real-world Contexts, the University of Southampton Web Science DTC and the University of Southampton Faculty of Humanities

Recorded presentations
Please click on the links below to see the recordings and slides of some of the presentations.
Saturday 24 March
Introductions
First keynote
Alex Bentley
“Networks, complexity and the archaeology of complex social systems”
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First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns
Tom Brughmans
“Networks of networks: A critical review of formal network methods in archaeology through citation network analysis and close reading”
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Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
“Luhmann in Byzantium. A systems theory approach for historical network analysis”
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Andrew Bevan
“When nodes and edges dissolve. Incorporating geographic uncertainty into the analysis of settlement interactions”
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First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns
Astrid Van Oyen
“Actors as networks? How to make Actor-Network-Theory work for archaeology: on the reality of categories in the production of Roman terra sigillata”
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Søren Sindbæk
“Contextual network synthesis: Reading communication in archaeology”
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Marten Düring
“How reliable are centrality and clustering measures for data collected from fragmentary and heterogenuous historical sources? A case study”
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Second session: Big data and archaeology
Barbara Mills et al.
“Dynamic Network Analysis: Stability and Collapse in U.S. Southwest, A.D. 1200-1500″
Caroline Waerzeggers
“Networks in Babylonia: social complexity and cuneiform data”
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Mark Depauw and Bart Van Beek
“Authority and Social Interaction in Graeco‐Roman Egypt”
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Second session: Big data and archaeology
Eivind Heldaas Seland
“Travel and religion in late antiquity”
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Alessandro Quercia and Lin Foxhall
“Weaving networks in pre-Roman South Italy. Using loom weight data to understand complex relationships and social identities”
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Angus Mol and Corinne Hofman
“Networks Set in Stone: Lithic production and exchange in the early prehistoric northeastern Caribbean”
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Craig Alexander
“Networks and intervisibility: a study of Iron Age Valcamonica”
Second keynote
Carl Knappett
Networks of Objects, Meshworks of Things”
Sunday 25 March
Third keynote
Irad Malkin
“The Spatial Turn, Network Theory, and the Archaic Greek World”
Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling
Ray Rivers
“‪Can we always get what we want?”
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Anne Kandler and Fabio Caccioli
“The effects of network structure on cultural change”
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Qiming Lv, Caitlin Buck et al.
“Network-based spatial-temporal modelling of the first arrival of prehistoric agriculture”
Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling
Tim Evans
“Which Network Model Should I Use? A Quantitative Comparison of Spatial Network Models in Archaeology”
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Juan A. Barceló et al.
“Simulating the Emergence of Social Networks of Restricted Cooperation in Prehistory. A Bayesian network approach”
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Marco Büchler
“Generation of Text Graphs and Text Re-use Graphs from Massive Digital Data”
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Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks
Wilko Schroeter
“The social marriage network of Europe’s ruling families from 1600-1900″
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Ekaterini Mitsiou
“Networks of state building: State collapses and aristocratic networks in the 13th century Eastern Mediterranean”
Evi Gorogianni
“Marrying out: a consideration of cultural exogamy and its implications on material culture”
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Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks
Elena Isayev
“Edging beyond the shore: Questioning Polybius’s view of Rome and Italy at the dawn of the ‘global moment’ of the 2nd century BC”
Claire Lemercier and Paul-André Rosental
“Networks in time and space. The structure and dynamics of migration in 19th-century Northern France”
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Amara Thornton
“Reconstructing Networks in the History of Archaeology”
Katherine Larson
“Sign Here: Tracing Spatial and Social Networks of Hellenistic Sculptors”
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2012-05-25T16:14:00.000-04:00

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