Jane Humphris
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 170123 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jane Humphris |
| NOMBRES | Jane |
| APELLIDO | Humphris |
| FIRMA | HUMPHRIS J |
| AFILIACIONES | University College London Qatar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6963-2143 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Iron Production at Meroe
The archaeometallurgical remains evident at the Royal City of Meroe represent some of the most extensive evidence for ancient iron production in Africa. Recently, renewed investigations of these remains have generated a number of new insights into Kushite ferrous technology. The duration of iron production at Meroe is now known to span over one thousand years. Currently available data indicates a particularly intensive level of production during …
Archaeological Practice in the 21st Century
Archaeological research on the African continent developed hand in hand with European colonization. Although many countries became independent over sixty years ago, archaeological practice today can bear negative traces of colonial legacies. Often these legacies can be identified in the ways in which archaeologists have tended to interact—or indeed not interact—with local communities. A number of archaeological teams have therefore been developin…
Fuel selection during long-term ancient iron production in Sudan
The Royal City of Meroe, a capital of the ancient Kushite kingdom in modern Sudan, is renowned for its extensive remains of ancient iron production. The exploitation of wood to fuel Meroe’s metallurgical past has long been linked to environmental degradation. However, palaeoenvironmental studies involving archaeobotanical methods such as charcoal analysis, which might confirm or disprove the hypothesis of large-scale deforestation, have so far be…
Exploring ironmaking practices at Meroe, Sudan-a comparative analysis of archaeological and experimental data
The ironworking remains in the royal city of Meroe
Iron Smelting in Sudan
The Royal City of Meroe, ca. 200 km north of Khartoum in the modern-day Republic of the Sudan, was an ancient capital of the Kingdom of Kush. From the 3rd century b.c. to the 4th century a.d., Kushite rulers controlled significant territory from the banks of the Nile at Meroe, in part through their ability to ensure the production of significant quantities of iron. The extensive archaeological remains of Meroitic iron production have been investi…
The ancient iron mines of Meroe
Ongoing archaeometallurgical research at the Royal City of Meroe and the nearby Meroitic town of Hamadab in Sudan has established the presence of a Kushite iron production tradition spanning over one thousand years. Potentially from as early as the seventh century BC to as late as the sixth century AD, a significant quantity of iron was produced at Meroe, while Hamadab appears to have started producing iron during the latter stages of this time-f…
The technology and craft organisation of Kushite technical ceramic production at Meroe and Hamadab, Sudan
A New Radiocarbon Chronology for Ancient Iron Production in the Meroe Region of Sudan
Recent archaeometallurgical investigations in Sudan have provided 97 radiocarbon dates which are used here to present a new chronology for ancient iron production associated with the Kingdom of Kush. Understandings of the formation, stratigraphy and dating of metallurgical waste deposits are used to demonstrate that iron production was practiced in the Meroe area for more than 1000 years, potentially starting as early as the 25th Dynasty period. …
Understanding ‘the community’ before community archaeology
Since 2014, UCL Qatar has undertaken a diverse programme of community engagement as part of an archaeometallurgical research project at the Royal City of Meroe, Sudan. We present initial analyses of anonymous questionnaires conducted as part of this programme. We designed the questionnaires to evaluate qualitatively residents’ knowledge about, outlook on, and experience with local archaeological sites, to generate an understanding of the social f…
New methods for investigating slag heaps
This paper describes a multifaceted approach to the investigation of iron slag heaps, focusing on one of the slag heaps at the Royal City of Meroe in Sudan. This study marries together geoprospection data (gradiometry and electrical resistivity transects), topographic data and quantitative excavation data, to provide an analysis and comparison of the total volume, slag component and slag composition of a slag-heap. Significantly, the results demo…
Métallurgie du fer et sociétés africaines. Bilans et nouveaux paradigmes dans la recherche anthropologique et archéologique
An Archaeometallurgical Investigation of Iron Smelting Traditions in Southern Rwanda
From the 1950’s to the 1980’s, research in Rwanda highlighted the country’s significant \narchaeological potential, including some of the earliest evidence for iron production in \nsub-Saharan Africa. However, years of civil war culminated in the 1994 genocide and \nthe country was left devastated. Further archaeological research to develop the potential \nalready indicated was inappropriate. \nIn 2006 this research project, to explore Rwanda’s p…
Challenges for Pre-Colonial Archaeological Site Management in Rwanda
Drawing on a range of experiences as PhD researchers in Rwanda (JG, JH) and Rwandan heritage professionals (MM, AN), this paper reviews the current state of pre-colonial archaeological site management in Rwanda and identifi es specifi c contemporary challenges related to current national priorities, demographic and subsistence pressures, and socio-economic development. The paper recognizes the diffi cult contemporary context in which archaeology …
An Urewe burial in Rwanda
The 'Urewe culture' dominates the archaeology of Great Lakes Africa from approximately 500 BC to AD 800. However, whilst much is known about the production and distribution of Urewe ceramics and iron metallurgy, social and symbolic information regarding Urewe users is scarce. Within this context the discovery of an Urewe burial preserving pathological conditions, the products of iron production technology and a long distance exchange artefact, ra…
Fifth African Archaeology Research Day (Aard 2008) 29 November 2008, Department of Archaeology, University of York
Variability in single smelting episodes – a pilot study using iron slag from Uganda
Videosessions — ritualisierter Rahmen zur Konstruktion von Gefühlen
Die ethnomethodologisch orientierte Rezeptionsforschung fragt nach den Formen und Funktionen von sozialen Praktiken des Mediengebrauchs. Eine bei Jugendlichen häufig anzutreffende Form der Mediennutzung ist die Veranstaltung Videoabend oder Videosession. Der Reiz, den das gemeinsame Rezipieren von Videofilmen ausmacht, scheint für die Jugendlichen nicht nur von inhaltlichen Merkmalen der einzelnen Videos auszugehen, sondern auch von der Inszenier…
Rezeptionsforschung als Aufgabe einer interdisziplinären Medienwissenschaft
Unter Medienrezeption soll die aktive Auseinandersetzung von Lesern mit Texten, von Hörern mit Sprache oder Musik und von Zuschauern mit Filmen usw. verstanden werden. Der Rezeptionsprozeß beginnt mit der Zuwendung zum Medium, eventuell nach einem vorangegangenen Wahlvorgang. Im Mittelpunkt des Prozesses steht die LeserText-Interaktion (resp. Zuschauer-Film-Interaktion usw.). Die Interaktion mit dem Text kann von sozialer Kommunikation begleitet …
Rezeptionsforschung
Fernsehwerbung und Kinder
Rezeptionsforschung als Strukturanalyse
Medienkommunikation im Alltag
Möglichkeiten eines sozialwissenschaftlichen Handlungsbegriffs für die psychologische Forschung
Variability in single smelting episodes – a pilot study using iron slag from Uganda
An Urewe burial in Rwanda
The 'Urewe culture' dominates the archaeology of Great Lakes Africa from approximately 500 BC to AD 800. However, whilst much is known about the production and distribution of Urewe ceramics and iron metallurgy, social and symbolic information regarding Urewe users is scarce. Within this context the discovery of an Urewe burial preserving pathological conditions, the products of iron production technology and a long distance exchange artefact, ra…
Rezeptionsforschung
Understanding ‘the community’ before community archaeology
Since 2014, UCL Qatar has undertaken a diverse programme of community engagement as part of an archaeometallurgical research project at the Royal City of Meroe, Sudan. We present initial analyses of anonymous questionnaires conducted as part of this programme. We designed the questionnaires to evaluate qualitatively residents’ knowledge about, outlook on, and experience with local archaeological sites, to generate an understanding of the social f…
Exploring ironmaking practices at Meroe, Sudan-a comparative analysis of archaeological and experimental data
New methods for investigating slag heaps
This paper describes a multifaceted approach to the investigation of iron slag heaps, focusing on one of the slag heaps at the Royal City of Meroe in Sudan. This study marries together geoprospection data (gradiometry and electrical resistivity transects), topographic data and quantitative excavation data, to provide an analysis and comparison of the total volume, slag component and slag composition of a slag-heap. Significantly, the results demo…
The technology and craft organisation of Kushite technical ceramic production at Meroe and Hamadab, Sudan
A New Radiocarbon Chronology for Ancient Iron Production in the Meroe Region of Sudan
Recent archaeometallurgical investigations in Sudan have provided 97 radiocarbon dates which are used here to present a new chronology for ancient iron production associated with the Kingdom of Kush. Understandings of the formation, stratigraphy and dating of metallurgical waste deposits are used to demonstrate that iron production was practiced in the Meroe area for more than 1000 years, potentially starting as early as the 25th Dynasty period. …
Iron Smelting in Sudan
The Royal City of Meroe, ca. 200 km north of Khartoum in the modern-day Republic of the Sudan, was an ancient capital of the Kingdom of Kush. From the 3rd century b.c. to the 4th century a.d., Kushite rulers controlled significant territory from the banks of the Nile at Meroe, in part through their ability to ensure the production of significant quantities of iron. The extensive archaeological remains of Meroitic iron production have been investi…
The ancient iron mines of Meroe
Ongoing archaeometallurgical research at the Royal City of Meroe and the nearby Meroitic town of Hamadab in Sudan has established the presence of a Kushite iron production tradition spanning over one thousand years. Potentially from as early as the seventh century BC to as late as the sixth century AD, a significant quantity of iron was produced at Meroe, while Hamadab appears to have started producing iron during the latter stages of this time-f…
Fuel selection during long-term ancient iron production in Sudan
The Royal City of Meroe, a capital of the ancient Kushite kingdom in modern Sudan, is renowned for its extensive remains of ancient iron production. The exploitation of wood to fuel Meroe’s metallurgical past has long been linked to environmental degradation. However, palaeoenvironmental studies involving archaeobotanical methods such as charcoal analysis, which might confirm or disprove the hypothesis of large-scale deforestation, have so far be…
The ironworking remains in the royal city of Meroe
Möglichkeiten eines sozialwissenschaftlichen Handlungsbegriffs für die psychologische Forschung
Rezeptionsforschung als Strukturanalyse
Medienkommunikation im Alltag
Fernsehwerbung und Kinder
Rezeptionsforschung
Videosessions — ritualisierter Rahmen zur Konstruktion von Gefühlen
Die ethnomethodologisch orientierte Rezeptionsforschung fragt nach den Formen und Funktionen von sozialen Praktiken des Mediengebrauchs. Eine bei Jugendlichen häufig anzutreffende Form der Mediennutzung ist die Veranstaltung Videoabend oder Videosession. Der Reiz, den das gemeinsame Rezipieren von Videofilmen ausmacht, scheint für die Jugendlichen nicht nur von inhaltlichen Merkmalen der einzelnen Videos auszugehen, sondern auch von der Inszenier…
Rezeptionsforschung als Aufgabe einer interdisziplinären Medienwissenschaft
Unter Medienrezeption soll die aktive Auseinandersetzung von Lesern mit Texten, von Hörern mit Sprache oder Musik und von Zuschauern mit Filmen usw. verstanden werden. Der Rezeptionsprozeß beginnt mit der Zuwendung zum Medium, eventuell nach einem vorangegangenen Wahlvorgang. Im Mittelpunkt des Prozesses steht die LeserText-Interaktion (resp. Zuschauer-Film-Interaktion usw.). Die Interaktion mit dem Text kann von sozialer Kommunikation begleitet …
Variability in single smelting episodes – a pilot study using iron slag from Uganda
Fifth African Archaeology Research Day (Aard 2008) 29 November 2008, Department of Archaeology, University of York
An Urewe burial in Rwanda
The 'Urewe culture' dominates the archaeology of Great Lakes Africa from approximately 500 BC to AD 800. However, whilst much is known about the production and distribution of Urewe ceramics and iron metallurgy, social and symbolic information regarding Urewe users is scarce. Within this context the discovery of an Urewe burial preserving pathological conditions, the products of iron production technology and a long distance exchange artefact, ra…
Challenges for Pre-Colonial Archaeological Site Management in Rwanda
Drawing on a range of experiences as PhD researchers in Rwanda (JG, JH) and Rwandan heritage professionals (MM, AN), this paper reviews the current state of pre-colonial archaeological site management in Rwanda and identifi es specifi c contemporary challenges related to current national priorities, demographic and subsistence pressures, and socio-economic development. The paper recognizes the diffi cult contemporary context in which archaeology …
An Archaeometallurgical Investigation of Iron Smelting Traditions in Southern Rwanda
From the 1950’s to the 1980’s, research in Rwanda highlighted the country’s significant \narchaeological potential, including some of the earliest evidence for iron production in \nsub-Saharan Africa. However, years of civil war culminated in the 1994 genocide and \nthe country was left devastated. Further archaeological research to develop the potential \nalready indicated was inappropriate. \nIn 2006 this research project, to explore Rwanda’s p…
Métallurgie du fer et sociétés africaines. Bilans et nouveaux paradigmes dans la recherche anthropologique et archéologique
New methods for investigating slag heaps
This paper describes a multifaceted approach to the investigation of iron slag heaps, focusing on one of the slag heaps at the Royal City of Meroe in Sudan. This study marries together geoprospection data (gradiometry and electrical resistivity transects), topographic data and quantitative excavation data, to provide an analysis and comparison of the total volume, slag component and slag composition of a slag-heap. Significantly, the results demo…
The technology and craft organisation of Kushite technical ceramic production at Meroe and Hamadab, Sudan
A New Radiocarbon Chronology for Ancient Iron Production in the Meroe Region of Sudan
Recent archaeometallurgical investigations in Sudan have provided 97 radiocarbon dates which are used here to present a new chronology for ancient iron production associated with the Kingdom of Kush. Understandings of the formation, stratigraphy and dating of metallurgical waste deposits are used to demonstrate that iron production was practiced in the Meroe area for more than 1000 years, potentially starting as early as the 25th Dynasty period. …
Understanding ‘the community’ before community archaeology
Since 2014, UCL Qatar has undertaken a diverse programme of community engagement as part of an archaeometallurgical research project at the Royal City of Meroe, Sudan. We present initial analyses of anonymous questionnaires conducted as part of this programme. We designed the questionnaires to evaluate qualitatively residents’ knowledge about, outlook on, and experience with local archaeological sites, to generate an understanding of the social f…
Iron Smelting in Sudan
The Royal City of Meroe, ca. 200 km north of Khartoum in the modern-day Republic of the Sudan, was an ancient capital of the Kingdom of Kush. From the 3rd century b.c. to the 4th century a.d., Kushite rulers controlled significant territory from the banks of the Nile at Meroe, in part through their ability to ensure the production of significant quantities of iron. The extensive archaeological remains of Meroitic iron production have been investi…
The ancient iron mines of Meroe
Ongoing archaeometallurgical research at the Royal City of Meroe and the nearby Meroitic town of Hamadab in Sudan has established the presence of a Kushite iron production tradition spanning over one thousand years. Potentially from as early as the seventh century BC to as late as the sixth century AD, a significant quantity of iron was produced at Meroe, while Hamadab appears to have started producing iron during the latter stages of this time-f…
Fuel selection during long-term ancient iron production in Sudan
The Royal City of Meroe, a capital of the ancient Kushite kingdom in modern Sudan, is renowned for its extensive remains of ancient iron production. The exploitation of wood to fuel Meroe’s metallurgical past has long been linked to environmental degradation. However, palaeoenvironmental studies involving archaeobotanical methods such as charcoal analysis, which might confirm or disprove the hypothesis of large-scale deforestation, have so far be…
Exploring ironmaking practices at Meroe, Sudan-a comparative analysis of archaeological and experimental data
The ironworking remains in the royal city of Meroe
Iron Production at Meroe
The archaeometallurgical remains evident at the Royal City of Meroe represent some of the most extensive evidence for ancient iron production in Africa. Recently, renewed investigations of these remains have generated a number of new insights into Kushite ferrous technology. The duration of iron production at Meroe is now known to span over one thousand years. Currently available data indicates a particularly intensive level of production during …
Archaeological Practice in the 21st Century
Archaeological research on the African continent developed hand in hand with European colonization. Although many countries became independent over sixty years ago, archaeological practice today can bear negative traces of colonial legacies. Often these legacies can be identified in the ways in which archaeologists have tended to interact—or indeed not interact—with local communities. A number of archaeological teams have therefore been developin…
Archaeology (15 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · History (12 obras) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (9 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 obras) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 obras) · Smelting (7 obras) · Metallurgy (6 obras) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 obras) · Archaeological Research and Protection (5 obras)