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CALLS FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS,
AND NOTICE OF 2015 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities/La Société pour
l'Étude de l'Égypte ancienne Annual General Meeting Nov 6-8, 2015
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Statement by Dr Alice Stevenson, UCL Petrie Museum
of Egyptian Archaeology, and Dr Chris Naunton, the Egypt Exploration
Society, London, 26 September 2014.
This Thursday 2 October 2014, the Archaeological Institute of America
(AIA) St Louis Society intends to sell Egyptian antiquities at the
London auctioneers Bonhams. We condemn this sale in the strongest
possible terms.
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Mycenaean pottery has been found in significant
quantities in most coastal regions of the eastern Mediterranean. Most of
the pottery was found in Cyprus, the Levant and Egypt. Despite its
relative close proximity to the Greek mainland, Anatolia yielded only
little Mycenaean pottery. The lack of significant amounts of pottery in
this region has been the subject of much scholarly debate. Some have
interpreted the lack of Mycenaean goods as a direct result of an alleged
Hittite trade embargo, while others see it as a token of the
insignificant role that Greece would have played in...
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"Archaeological surveys clearly indicate that
predynastic Egypt had a sparsely distributed population. This has been
explained recently by Robert Carneiro as the result of conflict forcing
the nucleation of people into defensive walled settlements thus
creating buffer zones. However, so far no defensive settlement walls
have been located in the whole of Egypt before the Early Dynastic
Period.
Concerning the influence of warfare, although some scholars have noted
'victory' and 'smiting' scenes with 'prisoners' on Naqada I (approx.
3900-3650 BC) C-Ware pottery, this identification is...
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A collection of 14 weekly lab activities (and dozens
of handouts and charts) designed for students of Human Osteology. This
is meant as a supplement to the course. (See my syllabus in the
Teaching Documents section.) The book can be assigned to students or
can be adapted by instructors.
Sample lab available here. Entire set of labs and worksheets available
for purchase at link (downloadable PDF or printed copy).
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This paper contains the English translation of Ignác
Goldziher's Hungarian essay Report on the Books Brought from the Orient
for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with Regard to the Conditions of
the Printing Press in the Orient (1874). The introduction provides the
historical and scholarly context of the article. The Arabic printed
books Goldziher bought in Egypt reflect his understanding of a
specialized Arabic Studies library in the 1870s. The general argument is
that Goldziher connected the Arab nation and Arabic texts based on the
Hungarian and German concepts of liberal nationalism....
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An examination of the ideas of Sir Fredrick Bartlett
in light of contemporary work in culture and psychological processes.
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Co-authored with Jack Goody and Sylvia Scribner
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