Damqatum - Number 19 (2023) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Damqatum - Number 19 (2023) write by Jorge Cano Moreno. This book was released on 2023-12-31. Damqatum - Number 19 (2023) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Damqatum is a journal dedicated to the history and archaeology of the Near East, oriented to the general public.
Digital Papyrology I
Digital Papyrology I - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digital Papyrology I write by Nicola Reggiani. This book was released on 2017-09-11. Digital Papyrology I available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the very beginnings of the digital humanities, Papyrology has been in the vanguard of the application of information technologies to its own scientific purposes, for both theoretical and practical reasons (the strong awareness towards the problems of human memory and the material ways of preserving it; the need to work with a multifarious and overwhelming amount of different data). After more than thirty years of development, we have now at our disposal the most advanced tools to make papyrological studies more and more effective, and even to create a new conception of "papyrology" and a new model of "edition" of the ancient documents. At this turining point, it is important to build an epistemological framework including all the different expressions of Digital Papyrology, to trace a historical sketch setting the background of the contemporary tools, and to provide a clear overview of the current theoretical and technological trends, so that all the possibilities currently available can be exploited following uniform pathways. The volume represents an innovative attempt to deal with such topics, usually relegated into very quick and general treatments within journal articles or papyrological handbooks.
Civilization Before Greece and Rome
Civilization Before Greece and Rome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civilization Before Greece and Rome write by H. W. F. Saggs. This book was released on . Civilization Before Greece and Rome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years, however, archaeological discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era. In this fascinating work, H.W.F Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the more notable achievements of these societies, showing how much the ancient peoples of the Near and Middle East have influenced the patterns of our daily lives. Saggs discussesthe the invention of writing, tracing it from the earliest pictograms (designed for account-keeping) to the Phoenician alphabet, the source of the Greek and all European alphabets. He investigates teh curricula, teaching methods, and values of the schools from which scribes graduated. Analyzing the provisions of some of the law codes, he illustrates the operation of international law and the international trade that it made possible. Saggs highlights the creative ways that these ancient peoples used their natural resources, describing the vast works in stone created by the Egyptians, the development of technology in bronze and iron, and the introduction of useful plants into regions outside their natural habitat. In chapters on mathematics, astronomy, and medicine, he offers interesting explanations about how modern calculations of time derive from the ancient world, how the Egyptians practiced scientific surgery, and how the Babylonians used algebra. The book concludes with a discussion of ancient religion, showing its evolution from the most primitive forms toward monotheism.
Writing as Material Practice
Writing as Material Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing as Material Practice write by Kathryn E. Piquette. This book was released on 2013-12-18. Writing as Material Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging in spatial context from the Americas to the Near East, the chapters in this volume bring a variety of perspectives which contribute to both specific and broader questions of writing materialities. The authors also aim to place past graphical systems in their social contexts so they can be understood in relation to the people who created and attributed meaning to writing and associated symbolic modes through a diverse array of individual and wider social practices.
Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oxford Bibliographies write by Ilan Stavans. This book was released on . Oxford Bibliographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
