Featured Podcast Episode - Archaeology: The Early Years
Featured Podcast Episode - Archaeology: The Early Years
Issue 16
In This Episode
Follow host, Petros Koutoupis, as he explores and sifts through the early days of archaeology. Being the young [and still evolving] science that it is, its origins were quite destructive and in some cases unethical; all done to not only add to the collections of museums but to also prove the events described by ancient authors.
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Glossary
Anatolia - The region that is Turkey today.
Antiquarianism - The study of history through objects such as ancient artifacts and manuscripts.
BCE - Before the Common Era, the equivalent of B.C.
Cuneiform - An ancient form of wedge-shaped writing, originating from Mesopotamia and utilized throughout the ancient Near East.
Elgin Marbles - The collection of Classical Greek marbles that once decorated the Parthenon built on the Acropolis of Athens during the 5th century BCE. They are currently housed in the British Museum.
Lidar - An acronym for “light detection and ranging”, Lidar is a method for determining variable distance by targeting an object or surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver.
Rosetta Stone - The stone is granite stele inscribed with three separate versions of a decree during the Ptolemaic dynasty in the 2nd century BCE in Egypt. The decree is written in ancient Egyptian using booth hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts and also in ancient Greek. The Rosetta Stone served as a key to decipher both ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the ancient Egyptian language.
Recommended Books
The Land of Ionia: Society and Economy in the Archaic Period
Alan M. Greaves
Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region within its larger Mediterranean context and provides a thematic overview of its cities and people.
Seeks to balance the Greek and Anatolian cultural influences at work in Ionia in this important period of its history (700BC to the Battle of Lade in 494BC)
Organised thematically, covering landscape, economy, cities, colonisation, warfare, cult, and art
Accesses German and Turkish scholarship, presenting a useful point of entry to the published literature for academics and students
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