Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Open Access Journal: as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera

as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
The magazine as. is published quarterly in three languages and provides information about the latest discoveries, research results, exhibitions, experimental archaeology and much more and is written in a style that is easily understood by laypeople. Each issue is dedicated to a different core theme. There is a special edition on a region or a topic every year.

The journal is the official newsletter of the Swiss Archaeological Society (formerly: the Society for Pre- and Protohistory, SGUF), which has been published since 1937 under the titles "Ur-Schweiz" (Prehistoric Switzerland), "Helvetia Archaeologica" and "Mitteilungsblatt SGUF" (SGUF Newsletter). After the Helvetia Archaeologica split off in 1976 to become an independent journal, the "Mitteilungsblatt SGUF" first appeared in its present-day form under the name "Archäologie der Schweiz" (Archaeology of Switzerland). "Archäologie Schweiz" (Archaeology Switzerland) (until 2005: "Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte" - Swiss Society for Pre - and Protohistory), founded in 1907, is a society with members in every linguistic region in Switzerland. A good half are amateurs with an interest in archaeology, the rest are experts, students and other interested bodies.

Today, Archaeology Switzerland concentrates on two areas: firstly, communicating results to all interested parties, and secondly, carrying out archaeological projects involving multiple Swiss cantons.
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Volume 1
1978
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1979
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1980
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1981
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1982
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1983
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1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1988
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1989
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1990
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1991
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1992
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1993
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1994
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1995
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1996
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1997
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1998
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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1999
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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2000
Archäologie der Schweiz = Archéologie suisse = Archeologia svizzera
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2001
as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
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2002
as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
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2003
as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
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2004
as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
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2005
as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
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2006
as. Archäologie der Schweiz ; Archéologie suisse ; Archeologia svizzera
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Open Access Journal: AIA Bulletin

AIA Bulletin
The AIA Bulletin is the official annual report of the Institute and includes minutes of the meetings of the governing bodies, reports of the officers, award citations, information on AIA Societies and the national lecture schedule, and audited financial statements. Requests for copies of a printed version of the annual report should be sent to the AIA, 656 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215

AIA Bulletin: Volume 97
Fiscal Year 2006

AIA Bulletin: Volume 96
Fiscal Year 2005

AIA Bulletin: Volume 95
Fiscal Year 2004

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Monday, March 29, 2010

New Ancient World Content in JSTOR

Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive. More detailed information about JSTOR titles and collections, along with delimited lists, can be accessed from JSTOR's Available Collections page

Glotta (Arts & Sciences VIII)
Release Content: Bd. 1, H. 1 (1909) – Bd. 83 (2007)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (GmbH & Co. KG)
ISSN: 0017-1298
Note: The content for 2008 will be released as soon as the issue becomes available to JSTOR.
Ulster Journal of Archaeology (Ireland)
Release Content: First Series, Vol. 1 (1853) - First Series, Vol. 9 (1861/1862);
Second Series, Vol. 1, No. 1 (September, 1894) – Second Series, Vol. 17, No. 1/4 (February/November, 1911);
Third Series, Vol. 4 (July, 1941) – Third Series, Vol. 64 (2005)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Ulster Archaeological Society
ISSN: 0082-7355
Note: The content for 2006 will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Previous Titles Added to Currently Published Titles

Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Arts & Sciences V)
Release Content: Vol. 1, No. 1 (1824) – Vol. 3, No. 3 (1834)
Moving Wall: N/A
Publisher: Cambridge University on behalf of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
ISSN: 0950-4737
Note: Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland is a previous title to Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

The Ancient World in JSTOR: AWOL's full list of journals in JSTOR with substantial representation of the Ancient World.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Announcement: Mellon-funded Digitisation of the Kuyunjik Collections

Mellon-funded Digitisation of the Kuyunjik Collections



We are very pleased to announce the initial results of a collaboration between the British Museum's Department of the Middle East and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-supported research project "Creating a Sustainable Digital Cuneiform Library." Under the general direction of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI - Los Angeles/Berlin), this international collaboration is dedicated to the digital capture, persistent archiving and web dissemination of major cuneiform collections in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

The British Museum’s Ashurbanipal Library Project has been running since 2002, in parallel with the University of Mosul’s new Institute of Cuneiform Studies. Now under the direction of Jon Taylor, since 2009 a new phase of research has seen team member Marieka Arksey begin to digitise the first twenty thousand tablets from Nineveh. Digital resources allow the extraordinary wealth of the Nineveh library to be investigated from a wholly different perspective for the first time. The Kuyunjik material is being made available on the British Museum website which covers all British Museum collections:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx


An online research catalogue covering the entire library, with abundant contextual information, is in preparation. The Kuyunjik texts are now also documented by 16,800 catalogue entries and 8,100 special fatcross images at the CDLI website for the British Museum:

http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/bm/bm.html

We believe that access to all available texts will lay the broadest possible foundation for integrative research by the scholarly community. We therefore aim to assemble a complete dataset of images,
transliterations and translations of all texts in the Kuyunjik collections. We would like to invite colleagues to share such materials with us. All contributions will be given proper credit, as is policy of both British Museum and CDLI. We would particularly welcome contributions in the standard format described by project co-PI Steve Tinney at http://cdl.museum.upenn.edu/doc/ATF/.

John Curtis
Keeper, Department of the Middle East
The British Museum

Robert K. Englund
Director, CDLI
University of California, Los Angeles

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Open Access Journal : Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie

Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie
"Les Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie, fondés en 1985 par Anna Seidel et Hubert Durt, est une revue bilingue (français-anglais) spécialisée dans les domaines des sciences religieuses et de l’histoire intellectuelle de l’Asie orientale. Chaque numéro est un numéro thématique abordant des questions relatives aux religions de l’Asie orientale. Les sujets abordés couvrent un champ qui va depuis le taoïsme et les religions de la Chine ancienne, au chamanisme coréen en passant par les diverses écoles du bouddhisme chinois et japonais et plus récemment à l’histoire intellectuelle du Tibet."

Available periods :

1985-1989

1990-1999


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Bad News: Bibliography of the History of Art discontinued

ProQuest reports:
Discontinuation of the Bibliography of the History of Art: please note that the Bibliography of the History of Art is being withdrawn from distribution, and will no longer be available after 31st March 2010. As distributors of the resource, it is our understanding that the Getty Research Institute is no longer able to support the database and has not yet been able to reach an agreement with a new publisher. Further details will be forthcoming at the Getty Research Institute’s website, www.getty.edu. Subscribing institutions will be credited on a pro-rated basis, and should contact their ProQuest sales or customer services representatives with any queries...
The Getty Research Institute gives background:
In response to current economic conditions, the J. Paul Getty Trust recently announced it will significantly reduce its 2010 fiscal year budget. This will have an impact on all of the Getty's operations, including the Getty Research Institute (GRI). Since news of the Getty's budget reduction became public, including information about the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), we have received some inquiries about the BHA's future. We thought it would be helpful to review the history of the Getty's involvement with the BHA, the current status of the database, and our expectations for its future.

From 1990, when the International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) and the Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (RAA) came together to form BHA, it was a joint project between the Getty and the major database producer, the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique-CNRS. At the end of 2007, this collaboration ceased and BHA formally came to an end. Since January 2008, the GRI has continued production of the database on its own, under the name of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), and over the last sixteen months, the GRI has made an effort to forge collaborative partnerships on the IBA both nationally and internationally.

While there is interest in seeing the database continue, there have been no formal partnership commitments and no guarantees of outside funding for the project. Unfortunately, with the GRI facing severe budget challenges and without strong and committed partners to share the work, it has become impossible for the Getty to maintain the IBA on its own. Nevertheless, the GRI continues to be interested in seeing the IBA continue its service to the art historical field...

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

New in AMAR

AMAR: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site Reports

The Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR) collection is under development as part of the Iraq Cultural Heritage Program Grant. The Iraq Cultural Heritage Project (ICHP) was established in 2008 through a grant from the US Embassy Baghdad. The Cultural Affairs Office at the Embassy oversees the project. International Relief and Development (IRD), a US-based non-governmental organization, implements the project for the Embassy.

The project director, Elizabeth Stone, has directed archaeological excavations in Iraq, has been engaged in advanced training for Iraqi archaeologists and has attempted to document and stem the damage to Iraq's archaeological sites. Dr. Stone is collaborating with the University Libraries at Stony Brook University to make the AMAR collection available online. Before developing this online collection, she contributed more than one hundred digitized volumes to the ETANA website.

The aim of the AMAR project is to digitize 500 archaeological site reports describing archaeological excavations both in Iraq and in the immediately surrounding areas (Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Gulf). This will include both out-of-copyright as well as in-copyright and in-print materials. This online collection is intended to provide basic sources of information to our colleagues in Iraq, and also other archaeologists working in the Middle East. October 2010 is the projected completion date.

The electronic files are only to be distributed from the AMAR Web site. Individuals, libraries, institutions, and others may download one complimentary copy for their own personal use. Links to the AMAR Web site are welcomed.


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As of today, AMAR holds eighty-nine titles. Titles recently added include:

Das Ischtar-tor in Babylon nach den Ausgrabungen durch die Deutsche Orient-GesellschaftKoldewey, Robert, 1855-1925Architecture, Assyro-Babylonian1918


Die Konigsburgen von Babylon. I Die SudburgKoldewey, Robert, 1855-19251931


Die Konigsburgen von Babylon. II Die Hauptburg und der Sommerpalast Nebukadnezars im Hugel BabilKoldewey, Robert, 1855-19251932


Die Konigsburgen von Babylon. II Die Hauptburg und der Sommerpalast Nebukadnezars im Hugel BabilKoldewey, Robert, 1855-19251922


A study of the cranial and skeletal material excavated at NippurSwindler, Daris RayAnthropometry -- Iraq
Anthropometry -- Mesopotamia
1956


Elmali-Karatasi I: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods: Bagbasi and other sitesEslick, Christine, 1946-Excavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey -- Asia Minor
Pottery -- Turkey -- Asia Minor
1992


Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran, 1967-1975: the third millenniumPotts, Daniel T.Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iran -- Yahya, Tepe.2001


Excavations at Tepe Yahya, Iran 1967-1969: progress report 1Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C., 1937-Asia Institute of Pahlavi University1970


Zeugma: interim reports: Rescue excavations (Packard Humanities Institute), Inscription of Antiochus I, Bronze statute of Mars, House and mosaic of the Synaristosai, and Recent work of the Roman army at ZeugmaEarly, RobertExcavations (Archaeology) -- Turkey2003


Figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris: discovered by the expeditions conducted by the University of Michigan with the cooperation of the Toledo Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1927-1932Elarth, Wilhelmina Van Ingen, 1905-1969Terra-cotta sculpture -- Iraq -- Babylonia1939


Das wieder erstehende Babylon: die bisherigen ergebnisse der deutschen ausgrabungenKoldewey, Robert, 1855-19251913


Le palais de Darius Ier a SusePillet, M. L.Darius I, King of Persia, 548-485 B.C.
Palaces -- Iran -- Susa (Extinct city)
1914

Nouvelles fouilles de Tello, par le commandant Gaston CrosCros, Gaston, 1861-Cuneiform inscriptions
Sumerians
1914

Previous reference to AMAR in AWOL.

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