https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/daveo/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which David Olmsted is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:08:10 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 36d10ffac43e575ce8f25619d6fcb75b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903332/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:19 +0000 This is a term paper that was written in the end of the winter term 2004 at the Freie University Berlin, discussing the evolution of the feminine gender in Indo-European.

]]> 0 6356fd7cd5a98d83b7cfcaa42a3ff333 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897192/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:26 +0000 Die Vorlesung gibt einen Überblick über grundlegende computergestützte Methoden in den Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften und geht dabei auch auf theoretische Aspekte zur computergestützten Methodologie ein. Einzelne Verfahren werden im Detail vorgestellt.

]]> 0 7da86e59c7bcbfc223f778e47a621e6d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897189/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:01 +0000 Alle Sprachen ändern sich, solange sie existieren, das weiß die historisch-vergleichende Sprachforschung seit mindestens 150 Jahren. Dennoch gibt es nach wie vor viele Kontroversen darum, wie Sprachen sich ändern, warum sie sich ändern, und ob diese Änderung nicht am Ende doch einen stetigen Verfall darstellt. In der Vorlesung werden wir deta…[Read more]

]]> 0 265a4bfcd5c9d6f2eaa77a6f6de0442c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896907/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:25 +0000 Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE). The experiment aimed to: (1) develop a new understanding of how humans adapt to life in an environmental context for which we are not…[Read more]

]]> 0 13a261eaebccb0680eb411745f7355a1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895619/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:43 +0000 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 26c108311aa8cd295c74e9d2506b0952 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894587/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:04 +0000 This document is an English translation of Thomas Olander's Danish lecture notes used in the MA Elective Indo-European Language course (with specialisation in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics) taught in the Fall Semester 2023 in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen (HIEK0006EU LIN;…[Read more]

]]> 0 0cc7032cac36500a4484fb5937ba6d88 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891083/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:36 +0000 Sprachkontakt tritt in sehr vielfältigen Formen auf, die von der einfachen Übertragung von Wörtern im Rahmen der lexikalischen Entlehnung bis hin zur Übernahme komplexer grammatischer Strukturen reichen. Im Seminar werden wir uns mit allgemeinen Phänomenen des Sprachkontakts befassen und dann gezielt schauen, wie sich Sprachkontakt im Zusa…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d9feaf3ae5d685aa13597ebe4e845c3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891081/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:32 +0000 Sprachkontakt tritt in sehr vielfältigen Formen auf, die von der einfachen Übertragung von Wörtern im Rahmen der lexikalischen Entlehnung bis hin zur Übernahme komplexer grammatischer Strukturen reichen. Im Seminar werden wir uns mit allgemeinen Phänomenen des Sprachkontakts befassen und dann gezielt schauen, wie sich Sprachkontakt im Zusa…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c31a9b9c17044a418d2ab7f8c8a55a8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890210/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:07:04 +0000 Memes related to archaeological materials abound on social media. In this chapter, we present a case study looking at memes collected from accounts on Instagram that evince an interested in human skeletal remains. We present a framework for understanding memes as ‘partial stories’ which in aggregate enables us to say something about the aud…[Read more]

]]> 0 65d954f0e372ebabc0878b1a8446edc7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889849/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:01:30 +0000 The evidence for collapse of human civilizations at the start of the recently defined Meghalayan Age is equivocal

]]> 0 42abc991f45688e084d8a30d01ea1afc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889846/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:57 +0000 How we interpret the period preceding a collapse is important both in the desire to achieve historical accuracy and in that it affects the way we understand the collapse itself1. Intuition tells us that there must have been problems of some kind, crises or decline, prior to any collapse – enemies at the gate, structural issues in the functioning o…[Read more]

]]> 0 d887640b8784484d9c566b5f524b72c8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889843/ Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:00:22 +0000 Despite many years of intensive research into burial and funeral practices in Late Bronze Age (LBA) Greece, emotion remains largely absent from the discussion. Yet death and the emotions it provoked would have been familiar aspects of daily life in Mycenaean Greece. The dead had to be dealt with and moved on through various rites until they became…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8b8a8dec2c53eff77f97ae3b56067b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888407/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:01 +0000 This chapter argues that women’s most prominent role in ancient Japanese manuscript cultures was not as authors of texts but as patrons. Women likely commissioned the transcription of tens of thousands of scrolls of Buddhist scripture. They also produced short inscriptions, in colophons and on clay and other materials, that documented their p…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0e0ab441f67307a8e9e6ecd77c1bd03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887443/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:04 +0000 Aimed at young (at heart) people, this comic-strip format book introduces the discovery, and associated challenges of interpretation, of a petroglyph found, disturbed, in the entrance passage way of Middle Iron Age hillfort, at Nesscliffe in Shropshire, UK.  The Nesscliffe petroglyph ('Nessglyph') is made using two types of engraving technologies…[Read more]

]]> 0 d265276fc3c93ebda28dfa0362b9d32f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885233/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:32 +0000 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 03057ca4be4992bd2b52ebff2dab9bc3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885232/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:30 +0000 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d977a3d6d07d2d3fcb8f69b05c1e8783 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885231/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:03 +0000 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9af2c1af11097ff105bb1eacfa931600 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885230/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:02 +0000 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 565d48dda9e7026715837cb91c2a390b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882215/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:05 +0000 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein's flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 fc6595b136b6270c04ffb4d9e4f89535 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882211/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:29 +0000 This paper reviews Latène material found near Gingen where aerial photographs show a “Viereckschanze”. Obviously there has been a very extended settlement area surrounding the Viereckschanze. Finds mainly consist of coarse ware, but include also the fragment of a fibula. The site is integrated in a regional perspective presenting a map of Latè…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b988699ebe416332b05ea491920a0df https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882204/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:21 +0000 A Woman's Grave of late Hallstatt period at Bartenbach
Discovered in the 1930s the Bartenbach grave represents a woman's burial of Halstatt D1 period as indicated by bronze belt plate and an earring. According to current state of research the burial belongs to a concentration of Hallstatt finds southwest of mount Hohenstaufen, which was a hilltop…[Read more]

]]> 0 2df3dded593ac319aa7a6a6942b12716 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881300/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:01:05 +0000 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f0c3fff395824afaca4abe4bc4c74f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881298/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:36 +0000 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0d408584afc65517d4457f2ddf146d2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880427/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:00:22 +0000 Due to the peculiar nature of the Chinese writing system, it is difficult to assess the pronunciation of historical varieties of Chinese. In order to reconstruct ancient pronunciations, historical glossing practices play a crucial role. However, although studied thoroughly by numerous scholars, most research has been carried out in a qualitative…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd9062644ee5ee1959ef2b853d1d8404 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879869/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:00:03 +0000 Manuscript description of Cod. Guelf. 1027 Helmst., containing texts of Priscianus, Boethius, Horace, Ambrose and Sidonius Apollinaris

]]> 0 8314a3c1b6a9d61873a7b1f17d938437 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878452/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:53 +0000 In historical linguistics, sound change is typically modeled with the help of linearly arranged replacement rules that scan over an input sequence in a fixed order, converting the initial sequence in an iterative manner until all sound laws are exhausted. Arguing that this model of cascades of sound laws falls short in many regards, this study…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdae58fc8322b0b311e555dbb6298b06 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877896/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:00:33 +0000 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 d03daa4dedb8a9d14000cfb491c6633a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876944/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:01:16 +0000 The investigation of language-internal cognates and word families in Chinese plays a central role in enhancing our understanding of Old Chinese phonology and morphology, as well as constituting a key element for fostering our knowledge of the history of Sino-Tibetan languages. Here we provide an overview of common challenges encountered when…[Read more]

]]> 0 08088199a84674bf8c9777db58a1b84c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876938/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:00:02 +0000 This course provides an introductory survey of the archaeology, art, and architecture of ancient Egypt. The course begins by considering the prehistoric cultures of the Nile Valley and continues to the period of the Roman empire. The course will consider Egypt both chronologically and thematically by examining famous features and sites, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 f205ac62b4f87011fa620f2195ed7c0e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874258/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:00:05 +0000 Detailed reviews of Adam Gitner/Maria Chiara Scappaticcio: The Latin Origins of a Bilingual Letter Collection (Specimina Epistularia = P.Bon. 5), Jenny Strauss Clay: Achilles Revolutionary? Homer, Iliad 1.191 (CQ 72.2) and Adrian Weiß/Eva Werner: Geschlechterverhältnisse im Dialog. Ein Interview mit Katharina Wesselmann über Die abgtrennte Zu…[Read more]

]]> 0 54bb52b5dd24c0938f432e7e6f9ce447 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1873631/ Sat, 27 Jan 2024 03:00:26 +0000 Lexical compositionality has received some attention in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and cognitive linguistics, but so far studies have mostly concentrated on the morphological complexity of individual words and languages, while the fact that words form families which interact during language change and language use has been…[Read more]

]]> 0 49635e0726e6630f5450242fa7de4af4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871177/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:01:10 +0000 Reseña del cortometraje "Quma y las bestias", que contó con la asesoría multidisciplinaria de paleontólogos, arqueólogas, biólogos e ilustradores especialistas en paleoarte.

]]> 0 f6a26d9a67b893853523f28967e06ffc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871176/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:49 +0000 En este trabajo se presenta el desarrollo del proceso de patrimonialización de un cañón de hierro fabricado en 1789, probablemente en una fundición sueca. La pieza de artillería fue recuperada a comienzos del siglo XX del solar en donde funcionó el antiguo Juzgado de Paz y la Comisaría de San Antonio de Areco. Dicha pieza, forma parte de un conjun…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ce4cea73743bfd432c95ab64416ab56 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871175/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:27 +0000 Este trabajo se constituye como un espacio interdisciplinario para reflexionar sobre el aporte de los métodos y técnicas digitales en la práctica de nuestra disciplina, tanto en la documentación, como en el análisis y reconstrucción virtual del material arqueológico, además de la gestión integral del patrimonio cultural. A tal efecto, se consider…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad2a052b2d137f348513775126aeb92f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871174/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:04 +0000 El desarrollo tecnológico de las últimas décadas ha proporcionado múltiples posibilidades de comunicación con diversos públicos. Nuevas herramientas y canales complementan y optimizan las preexistentes y exigen también la construcción de nuevos tipos de relato, junto a la conformación de equipos multidisciplinarios que combinen diferentes saberes.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f996ca316f6b3c642ca4cfa27a15d3d4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871043/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:26 +0000 The International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP), co-directed by Alice Gorman and me, is the first full-scale, systematic archaeological investigation of the material culture from a site of human activity in space. We started in late 2015, in response to a number of phenomena, including a growing desire to move the focus of space…[Read more]

]]> 0 4586516a8c0ac1e530e25c964efdf325 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869285/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:55 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2023 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 0655f8ff9e3ea127880062d1121e0aeb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869284/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:54 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2022 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 cbd703f79351d65ae0db92939795eb20 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869283/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:52 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2021 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 3d2b5bd696e46de8e77d483e0cf6f013 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869282/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:51 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2019 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 a556d64cf9356659fcc738ebe462e8fc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869281/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:49 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2019 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 0d780deb40fd7ee66fe97db8ec49b32d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869280/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:48 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2018 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 c1279ef1c551edb97eeb9310c3f1bda6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869279/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:07:45 +0000 Die hier versammelten Beiträge sind im Blog “Von Wörtern und Bäumen — Historische Sprachwissenschaft nach der quantitativen Wende” im Jahr 2017 veröffentlicht worden. Sie werden hier noch ein mal in gesetzter Form gesondert und mit Seitenzahlen versehen geteilt, um ihre Langzeitarchivierung und Referenzierbarkeit zu erleichtern.

]]> 0 120a034cab4118a5026c2997ecab5ee8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868902/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:01:32 +0000 This article re-analyses in detail the meaning of the expression ludi Graeci which appears in two of Cicero’s letters (Ad Fam. 7,1 and Ad Att. 15,5). A careful examination of the first instance reveals that ludi Graeci indeed referred to theatrical performances in Greek language and not merely to Latin plays that followed Greek models. A brief s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1175e9fcf0ecb072c70064e6caa9c39 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868898/ Fri, 22 Dec 2023 03:01:00 +0000 A priori, la mise en scène de représentations théâtrales semble bien éloignée d’autres types de spectacles plus violents organisés dans le monde romain, souvent à l’occasion de triomphes militaires. Toutefois, il convient de s’interroger sur l’éventuelle « violence culturelle » qui pourrait se cacher derrière l’organisation de jeux théâtraux gre…[Read more]

]]> 0 8acf106589f795bceee57b5f4bb461bb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868555/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:07:08 +0000 Book review

]]> 0 3513d44304251a45bd63cce8030395cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868554/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:45 +0000 Whether or not you’ve heard the phrase ‘the Sixties Scoop’ probably depends on where you live, your heritage, and whether you ever had the opportunity to learn about the history of Indigenous peoples. Many don’t. The word ‘scoop’ is mild, and therefore deceptive. It’s the name given to a component of Canada’s cultural genocide conducted again…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d6fe2a3a4bd726cda952fa574ac3e69 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868552/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:22 +0000 This published by the publication 'The Contingent' https://contingentmagazine.org

]]> 0 4318ebc6c83d43e74bbef3f65151d7dc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868550/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:58 +0000 In this piece Alicia writes about archeology as adventure, in the context of a long history of colonial exploration and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian 'wilderness'. https://adventureuncovered.com/stories/the-brown-bear-and-i-archeology-adventure-and-colonisation-in-the-canadian-wilderness/

]]> 0 87a73416235d01f3ccd00fdec515998c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868541/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:04 +0000 The article is published in the official Journal of The Institute of Science and Technology (ISSN 2040-1868)

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