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 Free Download Song-nai Rhee, "Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, Technological, and Cultural Flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese A" English | ISBN: 1789699665 | 2021 | 242 pages | PDF | 8 MB Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, technological, and cultural flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC-AD 600 explores the fundamental role in the history of the Japanese archipelago played by Toraijin - immigrants mainly from the Korean Peninsula - during this formative period. The arrival of immigrant rice-agriculturalists from the peninsula in the early first millennium BC was the first of three major waves of technological transfer between the continent and the islands. The second brought bronze and iron-working to the archipelago around the 4th century BC, and the third brought elite crafts and administrative technology as well as Confucianism and Buddhism in the 5th and 6th centuries AD. In light of the recently uncovered archaeological data and ancient historical records, this book presents a panoramic bird's eye view of the fourteen centuries-long Toraijin story, from c. 800600 BC to AD 600 or thereabouts by answering the following seven questions: Where did the Toraijin come from? What was their historical and socio-cultural background? Why did they leave their homeland? Where did they settle in the Archipelago? What did they do in the Archipelago? How did the Archipelago people treat the Toraijin? What contributions did the Toraijin make to the ancient Japanese society?  Free Download Ben Saunders, "Archaeological rescue excavations on Packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman " English | ISBN: 1784913952 | 2016 | 220 pages | PDF | 27 MB The archaeological excavations along the route of packages 3 and 4 of the Batinah Expressway, Sultanate of Oman, conducted during the spring and summer of 2014, recorded over 60 archaeological sites over the 200km stretch of roadway cutting through the Batinah plain, north-west of Muscat. The majority of these sites were prehistoric tombs of varying ages. These excavations have allowed a re-thinking of the dating of some of these tombs, looking particularly at the structural styles of the tombs as well as their location in the landscape. It has also demonstrated techniques of rapid yet reliable excavation and recording techniques adapted from UK commercial archaeology for the Omani conditions. The report builds on the work of academic studies and adds a large dataset to the archaeology of the Batinah, Oman and the wider region. It is hoped that this will allow a wider scale reconsideration of the burial styles of the prehistoric Gulf.  Free Download Marion Dowd, "Archaeological excavations in Moneen Cave, the Burren, Co. Clare: Insights into Bronze Age and post-medieval life in the" English | ISBN: 1784914541 | 2017 | 110 pages | PDF | 10 MB In 2011, cavers exploring a little-known cave on Moneen Mountain in County Clare in the west of Ireland discovered part of a human skull, pottery and an antler implement. An archaeological excavation followed, leading to the discovery of large quantities of Bronze Age pottery, butchered animal bones and oyster shells. The material suggests that Moneen Cave was visited intermittently as a sacred place in the Bronze Age landscape. People climbed the mountain, squeezed through the small opening in the cave roof, dropped down into the chamber, and left offerings on a large boulder that dominates the internal space. The excavation also resulted in the recovery of the skeletal remains of an adolescent boy who appears to have died in the cave in the 16th or 17th century. Scientific analyses revealed he had endured periods of malnutrition and ill health, providing insight into the hardships faced by many children in post-medieval Ireland.  Free Download Thomas Richards, "Archaeological Research at Caution Bay, Papua New Guinea: Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Setting " English | ISBN: 1784915041 | 2017 | 300 pages | PDF | 10 MB In 2008 intensive archaeological surveys began at Caution Bay, located 20km to the northwest of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. This was followed by the excavation of 122 stratified sites in 2009-2010, and detailed analysis of the well preserved and abundant faunal, ceramic and lithic finds has continued ever since. The Caution Bay Archaeology Project is providing new and exciting contributions to western Pacific prehistory. It has radically expanded the known geographic distribution of the Lapita Cultural Complex to include, for the first time, the southern coast of Papua New Guinea; it has established the relationship of Lapita to later cultural expressions in this area; it has pinpointed the time of arrival of domesticated animals along the southern coast of Papua New Guinea and, by inference, on the larger island of New Guinea; it has provided new insights into the impact of resident populations on local terrestrial and marine environments over a 5000 year time period; and perhaps of greatest significance, it has provided a unique opportunity to document, using multiple strands of archaeological evidence, interactions between resident and colonizing populations at a time of cultural transformation c. 2900 years ago. The first volume of the Caution Bay monographs is designed to introduce the goals of the Caution Bay project, the nature and scope of the investigations and the cultural and natural setting of the study area. To this end a series of chapters are included on the ethnographic and linguistic setting, the present and past natural environment, archaeological surveys of the study area and investigative and analytical methods. These background chapters will be repeatedly referred to in all the other monographs, as foundational reference materials for the broader study.  Free Download Paulette M McManus, "Archaeological Displays and the Public: Museology and Interpretation, Second Edition" English | 2009 | ISBN: 1873132670, 1138405043 | EPUB | pages: 188 | 4.3 mb This volume is a set of a dozen case studies of innovative programs designed to attract the public to both archaeological sites and exhibits of archaeological artifacts. Papers deal with general issues of interpretation and presentation and cover British, Australian, European, and American settings.  Free Download Hasan Kayali, "Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918" English | ISBN: 0520204468 | | 312 pages | PDF | 15 MB Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman government toward the Arabs on the other. Kayali's novel use of documents from the Ottoman archives, as well as Arabic sources and Western and Central European documents, enables him to reassess conventional wisdom on this complex subject and to present an original appraisal of proto-nationalist ideologies as the longest-living Middle Eastern dynasty headed for collapse. He demonstrates the persistence and resilience of the supranational ideology of Islamism which overshadowed Arab and Turkish ethnic nationalism in this crucial transition period. Kayali's study reaches back to the nineteenth century and highlights both continuity and change in Arab-Turkish relations from the reign of Abdulhamid II to the constitutional period ushered in by the revolution of 1908.  Free Download Dr. Kate Mastruserio Reynolds, "Approaches to Inclusive English Classrooms: A Teacher's Handbook for Content-Based Instruction " English | ISBN: 1783093323 | 2015 | 328 pages | PDF | 5 MB This book provides educators with an accessible guide to best practices concerning content-based instruction (CBI) models and their use in English learner inclusive classrooms. The author effectively bridges the gap between theory and practice with a critical analysis of practical examples and diverse strategies for the inclusion of English learners into K-12 general education courses. The book also raises controversial questions regarding who is qualified to teach English learners and who is responsible for doing so, looking at the difficulties faced by both general educators and ESL teachers in Inclusive Classrooms. By providing a lens through which both ESL teachers and general educators are able to analyze, compare and contrast a range of widely-employed CBI methods, this book allows teachers to make informed decisions in their EL program development and work with English learners in K-12 schools.  Free Download Maria Chidiroglou, "Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece" English | ISBN: 1803277491 | 2024 | 280 pages | PDF | 36 MB Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece is the outcome of the conference held in Athens in June 2021 and hosted by the Swedish Institute at Athens. The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Fear of such malevolent powers generated the need for protection and we find clear traces of these concerns in both textual and archaeological sources. From the beginnings of literature, there is mention of ghosts and other daemonic beings that needed appeasement, and of ways of repulsing evil, such as the use of baskania and antibaskania (apotropaia). Repeatedly, we meet rituals of an apotropaic or prophylactic character conducted as part of everyday and family life, as for example on the occasion of a birth, marriage or death in the oikos (the cleansing of the house and household, libations and sacrifices in honour of oikos ancestors), and other practices that focused on the protection of the community as a whole, i.e. the Pharmakos ritual. Archaeology reveals an abundance of material objects thought to have the power to attract benevolent, and avert evil, forces. Traces of ritual practices necessary to ensure prosperity and avert personal disaster are manifest today in the form of amulets, certain semi-precious stones believed to protect women and children, eye-beads found in large numbers in many archaeological assemblages, possibly various types of terracotta figurines, such as nude female grotesques and various ithyphallic characters, to name a few. In addition, symbols and certain iconographic motifs, such as the phallus, the open hand, the Gorgoneion, images of triple Hekate, and Hermes, have been subject to a number of differing interpretations relative to apotropaic power.  Free Download Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide by Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, Alex Merced English | June 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1098148622 | 344 pages | True PDF | 5.23 MB Traditional data architecture patterns are severely limited. To use these patterns, you have to ETL data into each tool-a cost-prohibitive process for making warehouse features available to all of your data. The lack of flexibility with these patterns requires you to lock into a set of priority tools and formats, which creates data silos and data drift. This practical book shows you a better way.  Free Download Angela Stache-Weiske, Hartmut Walravens, "Anton Schiefner (1817-1879). Briefe Und Schriftenverzeichnis" Deutsch | 2016 | ISBN: 3700180691 | PDF | pages: 526 | 10.7 mb English summary: The noted linguist Anton Schiefner (1817-1879), a native of Reval (nowadays Tallinn), occupies a special position in the history of scholarship on account of his versatility, his rich knowledge, his many publications and his extensive network. By training a classical philologist and a lawyer, he subsequently became an Indologist and Finno-Ugrian expert while as a Petersburg academician he was responsible for Tibetology, and was additionally commissioned to translate and edit the works of late, prematurely deceased Finnish explorer and ethnographer Castren as well as Baron von Uslar's research on the Caucasian languages. Schiefner's letters offer a vivid picture of the progress of linguistics and humaniora for a span of almost 30 years. Projects, new publications, young scholars, study trips, also personal information and news on the situation in the Baltic provinces and St. Petersburg are the main topics. Individual focuses of the present volume are connected with the special interests of the addressees - as Calmuck literature (Julg), library matters and (natural) science (Baer), folklore and motif research (Kohler), cultural history (Hehn), the relationship of languages and also the gipsy language (Pott), Indology and mythology (Kuhn), the "Ofenic" language [argot of peddlars] (Diefenbach), onomastics (Forstemann) and library administration (Dziatzko). The letters are extensively annotated and made accessible by an index of names. A completely revised list of Schiefner's publications forms the introduction as the editorial work yielded much new material and allowed correction of previous data. With portraits and index. German description: Der bedeutende, aus Reval (dem heutigen Tallinn) geburtige Linguist Anton Schiefner (1817-1879) nimmt durch seine Vielseitigkeit, seine Fachkenntnisse, die grosse Zahl seiner Veroffentlichungen und sein weitgespanntes Netzwerk eine besondere Stellung in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte ein. Vom Studium her klassischer Philologe und Jurist, bildete er sich zum Indologen und Finnougristen; als Petersburger Akademiemitglied vertrat er die Tibetologie, und in amtlichem Auftrag gab er die Werke des fruhverstorbenen finnischen Forschungsreisenden und Ethnographen Castren und die Forschungsergebnisse des Barons Uslar uber die kaukasischen Sprachen heraus. Schiefners Briefe geben ein lebendiges Bild von den Fortschritten der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften fur einen Zeitraum von knapp 30 Jahren. Projekte, neue Publikationen, der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs, Studienreisen, aber auch Personliches, daruber hinaus die Situation in den Ostseeprovinzen sowie in St. Petersburg sind die Hauptthemen. Einzelschwerpunkte des vorliegenden Bandes sind die speziellen Interessen der Adressaten - so die kalmukische Literatur (Julg), Bibliothek und Naturwissenschaften (Baer), Folklore und Motivforschung (Kohler), Kulturgeschichte (Hehn), Sprachverwandtschaft sowie die "Zigeunersprache" (Pott), Indologie und Mythologie (Kuhn), die Ofen'sche Sprache (Diefenbach), Namenforschung (Forstemann) und Bibliothekswesen (Dziatzko). Die Briefe sind reich kommentiert und durch ein Namenregister erschlossen. Die Einleitung bildet ein neues Schriftenverzeichnis, da im Laufe der Werkausgabe eine vollige Revision einer fruher veroffentlichten Publikationsubersicht erforderlich wurde. Mit Portrats und Register. |
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