The ‘alternative’ rewritings of the Trojan myth by Dictys and Dares are among the most interesting and mysterious works of Late Antiquity: yet it is only recently that they have started getting due attention, and many issues about them still remain unsolved. This is one of the first books that relies on contributions by several scholars to comprehensively cover this subject in its various aspects, from the delicate question of (true or supposed) Greek models to cultural context, expected audience, intertextuality, structural patterns, narrative technique, themes, characters, aims, up to style and language. What emerges is a fuller and partly new view of the two works.
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Publication | Ethnoarchaeology of fire and combustion residues: Current approaches
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2018.1511237
Editeur (Taylor & francis | Open Access) : https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yeth20/current?cookieSet=1
Although fire is ubiquitous among humans and it appears to have been so for at least hundreds of thousands of years, its study as an artifact is relatively recent due to its sedimentary nature.
Archaeologists are only now beginning to properly document and sample combustion residues for their study as artifacts and to realize their potential as sinks of behavioral information, with clues concealed in ash, charcoal, burnt materials and the sedimentary substrate underlying hearths. Thus, archaeological combustion features are now analyzed at different scales using a variety of techniques to explore their spatial distribution, composition and formation. The physical and chemical transformations caused by heating on a variety of raw materials, as well as their social and technical implications, are equally at the center of current research. As a result, we are starting to unveil functional, technological and other behavioral aspects of fire in archaeological contexts from different regions and time periods […]
Ethiopia – Busy and interdisciplinary in the Afar: the AGXIM project
This project directed by Cécile Doubre (IPGS, Strasbourg) and Eloi Ficquet (EHESS, Paris) aims to document human adaptation in the Awsa and Tendaho Basin (Lower Awash valley, Afar). Together with Ethiopian collaborators from Addis Ababa University, Mekele University, the ARCCH and the Afar Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the interdisciplinary team brings together specialists from the Earth Sciences and the Humanities who had previously been working independently in the Afar region for the last decade or more.