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The Jewish Diaspora in the Roman Empire

(by Maria Álvarez-Folgado) The Jewish Diaspora in the Roman Empire. Diaspora, Social Agents and Social Networks: Towards the Creation of a New Analytical Toolkit During the Hellenistic and Roman period, Jewish communities spread over a wide geographical area spanning from Italy to Babylon, and in all the areas under the influence of Rome. Traces of
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Variation in Material Culture (Sicily, 8th BCE)

(by Anna Raudino) Variation in Material Culture: Adoption of Greek Ceramics in an Indigenous Sicilian Site (8th century BCE) The archaeological study of social boundaries through the examination of the material culture reflects the intent to better understand the interaction established between two different cultures. This paper, as part of my PhD study, identifies and
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Greek Migrations along the Ionian Coast

(by Maurizio Crudo) Greek Migrations along the Ionian Coast (Southern Italy) In the previous century, ancient migration was explained on the basis of the occurrence and quantities of imported archaeological artefacts, and with interpretations made in alignment with the ancient written sources. This was so too with the Greek migration into Southern Italy, often referred
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Mobility during the Upper Palaeolithic in Greece

(by Paraskevi Elefanti & Gilbert Marshall) Mobility during the Upper Palaeolithic in Greece: Some Suggestions for the Argolid Peninsula The mobile hunting and gathering way of life has persisted for over 95% of human history. As ethnographic studies of recent societies have highlighted, mobility was key to the exploitation of the natural environment, while at
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Human Mobility in Archaeology: Editorial

(by Maja Gori, Martina Revello Lami, Alessandro Pintucci) Editorial: Practices Representations and Meanings of Human Mobility in Archaeology It has been abundantly demonstrated that theories and paradigms in the humanities are influenced by historical, economic and socio-cultural conditions, which have profoundly influenced archaeology’s representation of migration. This was mostly conceived as the study of the
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Human Mobility in Archaeology

Practices, Representations and Meanings Volume 3, 2018 Edited by M. Gori, A. Pintucci & M. Revello Lami It has been abundantly demonstrated that theories and paradigms in the humanities are influenced by historical, economic and socio-cultural conditions, which have profoundly influenced archaeology’s representation of migration. This was mostly conceived as the study of the movement
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Archaeology & Comics

by Emiliano Barletta (Texts) and Alessio Lo Manto (Drawings) 23 July 2018 (For English see below) Quando parliamo di fumetti, spesso si pensa ad un prodotto per un pubbico di giovanissimi, infatti nell’editoria non specializzata il paradigma fumetti/bambini è ancora dominante. E’ altrettanto vero che negli ultimi decenni il fumetto – nella sua declinazione di
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Brexit, la Rivolta Populista e il Futuro dell'Archeologia

di Claudio Cavazzuti (9 Luglio 2018) I referendum, come qualsiasi altra occasione di espressione democratica, bruciano tutti i filtri della propaganda mediatica e ti sbattono in faccia la pubblica opinione. Per noi è una benedizione, una volta ogni tanto, poter testare teorie sociali su numeri ed evidenze dirette, anziché su percezioni e fonti frammentarie. E
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Call for Blog Posts

The ExN Blog is now accepting blog posts. We welcome original think pieces and editorials on topics related to social archaeology including: politics and archaeology public archaeology the legacies of colonialism and nationalism within the discipline the articulation between local and global archaeological traditions the discipline’s involvement in memory and identity museum studies and restitution
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On Discipline And Place

Mediterranean fieldwork and Classical Archaeology between The Devotee and The Inner Colonial by Lennart Kruijer (14 March 2018) You say there’s a lesson that you want to teach Well here I am baby, practice what you preach (Barry White) It is a peculiar species that migrates south each summer, clothed in khaki-coloured fieldwork trousers, leaving
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