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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Dirt on Rubbish: What Discard Tells us about Home Life in Roman Egypt
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores activities of cleaning and disposing because they represent key principles of social organization. Close attention to discard behavior helps us to understand how people related to the material goods and places that once made up their object worlds – their material habitus (c.f. Meskell\, 2005: 3). Human relationships to defilement\, in particular\, must be seen in in the context of how human identity as a rational being is established and maintained (Kristeva\, 1982; Lagerspetz 2018). Unlike other social practices in the life history of settlements\, rubbish disposal represents a critical component of the archaeological record (Rathje & Murphy\, 2001). In this paper\, I argue that a close examination of rubbish and waste depositions\, along with the discarded items themselves\, might be able to tell us about social values in the houses of Roman Egypt. Additionally\, activities such as disposal and recycling help to reveal the complex life cycles of houses\, which have typically been understood only as loci of consumption and (more recently) production. \nTo this end\, I compare case studies of cleanliness and rubbish disposal practices from a range of Romano-Egyptian settlements\, including refined evidence from recent domestic excavations (e.g. Trimithis (Roman Amheida)) as well as sites from which we have a large amount of legacy data (e.g. Karanis\, Soknopaiou Nesos\, Oxyrhynchus). These disposal practices are then situated within the global context of rubbish disposal. By exploring Romano-Egyptian waste disposal in a comparative manner\, this paper demonstrates that rubbish can tell us an enormous amount about identity construction\, the maintenance of communal traditions\, and dwelling as place-making. \nAnna Lucille Boozer is an Associate Professor at Baruch College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY). Her research focuses on Roman Egypt\, Meroitic Sudan\, empires\, and everyday life. She directs the CUNY excavations at Amheida (Egypt) and the Meroe Archival Project (Sudan). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-dirt-on-rubbish-what-discard-tells-us-about-home-life-in-roman-egypt/
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Mediterranean Pathways: GIS\, Network Analysis\, and the Ancient World
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world of maps and networks. GPS enabled phones allow us to instantly locate ourselves on the earth’s surface\, guide us to stores or restaurants\, or announce to the world our location through social media. Likewise\, programs like Google Earth and desktop Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have revolutionized our engagement with maps\, map-making\, and have challenged traditional notions of space and place. \nThe proliferation of GIS technologies and the “spatial turn” in digital humanities has also provided new avenues for challenging assumptions about the representations of past societies\, the nature of empire\, and the reach of imperial power. Despite their aesthetic beauty\, traditional print maps\, with clearly delineated static borders\, often artificial naming conventions\, and fixed viewpoints do not convey the complexity and uncertainty of the past. \nAncient societies and empires were far from static; they were networks of complex interactions and fierce contestation which unfolded in geographic space. This talk demonstrates how the use of new digital methodologies\, gazetteers\, and Linked Open Data (LOD) resources can be used to model and study these networks\, and how new mapping techniques are transforming our understanding of ancient empire. Using the Attalid Kingdom as a guide\, this talk examines the theory and practicalities of building an entity-relationship gazetteer and how to align it with LOD resources. It then addresses the construction of networks in desktop software\, the impact of networks on cartography\, and how new maps and digital models provided unique insights into the study of ancient Greek garrisons. The talk will then end with a brief overview of how Pleiades and other ancient world digital initiatives\, including the Pelagios project’s Recogito platform\, are developing new tools to enable the research and mapping of ancient networks. \nRyan Horne earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina\, where he had the opportunity to work extensively with the Ancient World Mapping Center. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of History and the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-mediterranean-pathways-gis-network-analysis-and-the-ancient-world/
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