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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Archaic Period"”.
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The Construction of Corinthian Identity in the Early Iron Age and Archaic Period
… study focuses on the city of Ancient Corinth, an Archaic polis in the northeastern Peloponnese of Greece, and its purpose is to determine if archaeological remains reflect the processes by which the city’s inhabitants constructed and manipulated notions of community, memory, and identity. The …
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Mapping and Radiocarbon Dating Archaic Period Monuments: La Alberca Structure Complex, Highland Michoacán, Mexico
… develop very early within this region. The Late Archaic ritual burial in La Alberca Rockshelter and the earlier structures of the La Alberca Complex predate similar developments in the Early Formative Period in West Mexico. The burial and preservation of ritual structures in the Parangaricutiro …
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ΣΤΑΣΙΣ-ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΣ-ΝΕΩΤΕΡΙΣΜΟΣ-ΚΙΝΗΣΙΣ: ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΟΡΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ
… NATURE OF OUR SOURCES, ESPECIALLY IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD, DOES NOT ALLOW A PRECISE DEFINITION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THE POLITICAL MEANING OF THE TERMS. IT SEEMS THATTHE TERM "ΣΤΑΣΙΣ" IS FOR THE FIRST TIME USED IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD TO ILLUSTRATE THE PHENOMENON OF THE …
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The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
… through a retrojection of later sources onto the Archaic period, I turn my attention in this thesis to the evidence that can be gleaned from the material world, with all its agency and affordances. As the modern city of Sparta is built on the ancient, our archaeological knowledge of political and …
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WESSELMAN FARM, AN ARCHAIC SITE ON THE LOWER GREAT MIAMI RIVER, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO
… Hamilton County, Ohio. The site is an early Late Archaic period (4330 ± 30 to 4080 ± 30 BP [4959 - 4462 cal BP]) habitation site with dense midden development situated on a summit over the Great Miami River. This research was inspired by a small box of stone tools that a family had collected since …
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Embracing Evil: The Threat and Allure of the Female in Greek Poetry
… exists throughout ancient Greek texts from the archaic period to classical times. This project argues that these sentiments, which have so often been described as 'Greek misogyny' in literature, in fact embody a more complicated and nuanced concept. My objective in this project is to explore the …
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ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL MEASURES OF RESOURCE INTENSIFICATION AND DEPLETION: EXAMPLES FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… and distribution of deer in the Late Prehistoric period is substantially impacted by human activity. This resource depletion is indicated by a decline in the presence of old individuals and an increase in body size surrounding major Mississippian sites. Deer populations appear stable at distance …
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Synoikism : people, power and poleis
… of Greek societies from the Dark Age to the Archaic Period. That transformation included large-scale expansion overseas; the institutionalisation of slavery; population rise; the advent of literacy and literature, of laws and lawcodes; the development of trade, markets and coinage, of public …
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The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece: Understanding Greek Religion Through Patterns of Dedicatory Practice and Thought, ca.750–480 BCE
… of gift-giving in religious contexts in archaic Greece, in which I determine patterns of dedicatory practice across Greece, and then use these patterns as a window onto the mindset of ancient worshippers in relation to their many gods. I use new materialist perspectives to address …
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Cross-Cultural Interaction and Migration: Retheorizing Greek Colonization in the 7th-4th Centuries BC with the Exchange of Attic Figured Pottery
… on the movement of Greeks beyond Greece in the Archaic period (7th-5th c. BC) has focused on models of acculturation and/or colonization. These models lack a full appreciation of the nuances of interaction and local agency. Migration as a framework changes the perception of interaction …
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Poetry in public: reperformance and publication of archaic Greek epigram
This dissertation examines Archaic Greek epigram in its context (cultural, historical, physical, etc.), with particular focus on its ancient reading and reception. My study contributes to our understanding of the performance culture of Archaic Greece, whereby, scholars have argued, poems and their …
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The cypro-geometric horizon, a view from below: identity and social change in the mortuary record
The Cypro-Geometric period (CG, 1100-750 BC) is a transitional period between two distinct socio-political landscapes – those of the Late Bronze Age and the Cypro-Archaic. Traditionally, the CG has been studied as a coda to other periods, mainly due to the mortuary-based evidence being considered …
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The Evocation of Cult in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting
… to what extent and in what ways the cults of the archaic period may have influenced the vase-painters and their construction of the deities. The vases were obtained mostly from the BAPD and the LIMC, grouped in scene-types and evaluated to establish the trends arising in the representation of …
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Archery in Archaic Greece
Despite a renewed interest in scholarship about archaic warfare, hoplites, Homeric society, and several other related areas, archery in Archaic Greece has managed to escape comprehensive study for half a century. Scholarship on the subject stands in urgent need of update and revision. Certain …
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An Investigation of Maize at Four Sites (LA 20241, LA 38597, LA 112766, and LA 131202) in Eddy County, New Mexico
… of this early date is twofold 1) the Middle Archaic date in comparison to other old maize sites in the area; and 2) the Middle Archaic date challenges the currently accepted migration patterns of maize into southeastern New Mexico. Dr. Jonathan Mabry’s 2008 study suggest that maize was …
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Shaping Houses: integrating the physical and socio-cultural in the domestic architecture of Ancient Sicily
… from the Neolithic to the end of the Hellenistic period. This time range encompasses two primary domestic building traditions: single-spaced round houses that dominate from the Neolithic through to the end of the Late Bronze Age, and large, multiple-spaced rectilinear structures that characterise …
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The Easterner at the Drinking Party: The Role of the Other in the Ancient Greek Symposion
Athenian painted pottery from the late Archaic and early Classical period frequently depicts images of the symposion, a popular ancient Greek drinking banquet which played an important role in ancient Athenian society. Some of these depictions include images of Eastern foreigners alongside Athenian …
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State interactions in archaic Greece
… economy operated, and about shipping routes in archaic Greece. I conclude that, contrary to the long-held belief by scholars, political activity did not determine other forms of networking between city-states, nor are political interactions readily visible in the archaeological record. …