Graeme Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graeme Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graeme |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1882-728X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 474 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac
The text of Orosius’s Historiae preserved in Paris BnF lat. 4871 was copied at the southern French abbey of Moissac in the mid-eleventh century. This article uses this understudied manuscript to explore the roles Orosius could play in the intellectual life of a medieval monastic community. In particular, it focuses on the abundance of glosses and a distinctive prologue (the so-called Praefatiuncula in Orosio) that were copied as part of the Histo…
Audience and Reception
This chapter sketches a basic conceptual framework for identifying and analysing the audiences and receptions of the kind of medieval biographical collections studied in this special issue. To do so, it sets out the range of approaches taken by the contributors and situates these approaches in relation to previous scholarship on the reception and interpretation of textual sources. Particular attention is given to the dynamic relationships between…
Reading Jerome’s De viris illustribus in the Post-Roman World
Catalogues of the names and writings of religious authors and authorities were one of the most enduring forms of biographical collection in the Middle Ages, with rich and varied traditions surviving in both Christian and Islamic contexts. In the Christian world, Jeromeâ s De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men) was foundational. Written in 392/393, Jeromeâ s catalogue of authorities was frequently read and used as a source of information for ov…
Eingegangene Bücher
Historiography and Identity III
Historiography and identity III: Carolingian Approaches is the third volume of a series of six, which aims to study the relationship between the writing of history and the construction of identity from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Taken together, these volumes hope to recover the potential that historiography developed to articulate and shape strategies of identification in the ancient, late ancient, and medieval worlds. The third volume explore…
Gwion Gwion
Historiography and Identity III
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Aiatsis)
All roads lead to Rome? F rechulf of L isieux, A ugustine and O rosius
This article considers the influence exerted by A ugustine's C ity of G od and O rosius's H istories against the P agans on the C arolingian historian, F rechulf of L isieux. In particular, it explores how these two explicitly R oman texts were read and understood in the ninth century, and how they in turn shaped the place of R ome and its empire within F rechulf's narrative. In the first half of this article, I shall take into account modern dis…
Peintures rupestres pléistocènes en Australie
Ce tour d’horizon de peintures datant du Pléistocène et des périodes précédant la stabilisation du niveau de la mer en Australie s’inspire du travail d’autres chercheurs cités ci-dessous. Je tente d’aborder les points principaux, sans être exhaustif, en guise d’introduction pour un public européen. L’Australie au Pléistocène et le niveau des mers Le Pléistocène est marqué par des bouleversements climatiques majeurs et l’on pense que le passage du…
Pleistocene Rock Painting in Australia
This survey of pictograms dated to Pleistocene and pre-sea-level-stabilization periods in Australia draws upon the work of others as acknowledged
Polynesians in America
An Embedded Fragment in Josephus' Caesarian Acta (Aj 14.196-212)
The origins, presentation, and organization of a series of Caesarian decisions regarding Jews that are quoted by Josephus in AJ 14.196-212 have long puzzled scholars. This article argues that they were earlier decisions quoted in a later senate decree, probably of 11 April 44 b.c
Characterization of Chert Sources as an Aid to the Identification of Patterns of Trade, Southeast Solomon Islands
State of the Art
[Population Biological Studies] the Mele Burials (Vanuatu)
Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture
Sandra Bowdler reported in the last issue of ANTIQUITY (62: 517-23) on the controversy surrounding the recent repainting of Wandjina figures on the rocks of the western Kimberley, northwest Australia. Here is an Aboriginal Australian's view of the repainting project and its significance, along with an explication and further discussion of implications
The Japanese Bone Collecting Expedition on Tinian, Mariana Islands, March 1985
Evaluation and Clustering of Radiocarbon Age Determinations
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Procedures for Comparing and Combining Radiocarbon Age Determinations
Archaeologists, along with other Quaternary researchers, seldom rely upon a single radiocarbon determination to provide an estimate of the age of the phenomenon which is the object of their study. There is an evident need for an explicitly formulated procedure for comparing sets of radiocarbon determinations from the same and from adjacent strata or sites, and for combining these where statistical and archaeological criteria indicate that this co…
A Systematic Approach to the Definition of Sources of Raw Material
S This paper argues the importance of the contribution that multivariate statistical techniques can make to the analysis of data from trace element characterization of sources of raw material and of artefacts. A threephase analysis is outlined: for the delimitation of sources of the raw material; the representation of the interrelationships of these sources; and the systematic and explicit allocation of artefactual material within the available u…
Comparison of Source and Artifact Characterization Data Using a Generalized Distance Measure
A major difficulty arises in sourcing studies when more than two or three elements are used in the comparison of artifacts with a number of potential sources. Multivariate statistical analysis can be used to define source groups and to allocate artifacts to their most likely sources. In this study of North Island, New Zealand, obsidian sources used in prehistory, the generalized distance measure of Mahalanobis and Rao is applied in three phases: …
Procedures for Comparing and Combining Radiocarbon Age Determinations
Archaeologists, along with other Quaternary researchers, seldom rely upon a single radiocarbon determination to provide an estimate of the age of the phenomenon which is the object of their study. There is an evident need for an explicitly formulated procedure for comparing sets of radiocarbon determinations from the same and from adjacent strata or sites, and for combining these where statistical and archaeological criteria indicate that this co…
State of the Art
Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture
Sandra Bowdler reported in the last issue of ANTIQUITY (62: 517-23) on the controversy surrounding the recent repainting of Wandjina figures on the rocks of the western Kimberley, northwest Australia. Here is an Aboriginal Australian's view of the repainting project and its significance, along with an explication and further discussion of implications
Evaluation and Clustering of Radiocarbon Age Determinations
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
A Systematic Approach to the Definition of Sources of Raw Material
S This paper argues the importance of the contribution that multivariate statistical techniques can make to the analysis of data from trace element characterization of sources of raw material and of artefacts. A threephase analysis is outlined: for the delimitation of sources of the raw material; the representation of the interrelationships of these sources; and the systematic and explicit allocation of artefactual material within the available u…
Characterization of Chert Sources as an Aid to the Identification of Patterns of Trade, Southeast Solomon Islands
Comparison of Source and Artifact Characterization Data Using a Generalized Distance Measure
A major difficulty arises in sourcing studies when more than two or three elements are used in the comparison of artifacts with a number of potential sources. Multivariate statistical analysis can be used to define source groups and to allocate artifacts to their most likely sources. In this study of North Island, New Zealand, obsidian sources used in prehistory, the generalized distance measure of Mahalanobis and Rao is applied in three phases: …
The Japanese Bone Collecting Expedition on Tinian, Mariana Islands, March 1985
A Systematic Approach to the Definition of Sources of Raw Material
S This paper argues the importance of the contribution that multivariate statistical techniques can make to the analysis of data from trace element characterization of sources of raw material and of artefacts. A threephase analysis is outlined: for the delimitation of sources of the raw material; the representation of the interrelationships of these sources; and the systematic and explicit allocation of artefactual material within the available u…
Comparison of Source and Artifact Characterization Data Using a Generalized Distance Measure
A major difficulty arises in sourcing studies when more than two or three elements are used in the comparison of artifacts with a number of potential sources. Multivariate statistical analysis can be used to define source groups and to allocate artifacts to their most likely sources. In this study of North Island, New Zealand, obsidian sources used in prehistory, the generalized distance measure of Mahalanobis and Rao is applied in three phases: …
Procedures for Comparing and Combining Radiocarbon Age Determinations
Archaeologists, along with other Quaternary researchers, seldom rely upon a single radiocarbon determination to provide an estimate of the age of the phenomenon which is the object of their study. There is an evident need for an explicitly formulated procedure for comparing sets of radiocarbon determinations from the same and from adjacent strata or sites, and for combining these where statistical and archaeological criteria indicate that this co…
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Evaluation and Clustering of Radiocarbon Age Determinations
The Japanese Bone Collecting Expedition on Tinian, Mariana Islands, March 1985
Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture
Sandra Bowdler reported in the last issue of ANTIQUITY (62: 517-23) on the controversy surrounding the recent repainting of Wandjina figures on the rocks of the western Kimberley, northwest Australia. Here is an Aboriginal Australian's view of the repainting project and its significance, along with an explication and further discussion of implications
[Population Biological Studies] the Mele Burials (Vanuatu)
State of the Art
Characterization of Chert Sources as an Aid to the Identification of Patterns of Trade, Southeast Solomon Islands
Polynesians in America
An Embedded Fragment in Josephus' Caesarian Acta (Aj 14.196-212)
The origins, presentation, and organization of a series of Caesarian decisions regarding Jews that are quoted by Josephus in AJ 14.196-212 have long puzzled scholars. This article argues that they were earlier decisions quoted in a later senate decree, probably of 11 April 44 b.c
Peintures rupestres pléistocènes en Australie
Ce tour d’horizon de peintures datant du Pléistocène et des périodes précédant la stabilisation du niveau de la mer en Australie s’inspire du travail d’autres chercheurs cités ci-dessous. Je tente d’aborder les points principaux, sans être exhaustif, en guise d’introduction pour un public européen. L’Australie au Pléistocène et le niveau des mers Le Pléistocène est marqué par des bouleversements climatiques majeurs et l’on pense que le passage du…
Pleistocene Rock Painting in Australia
This survey of pictograms dated to Pleistocene and pre-sea-level-stabilization periods in Australia draws upon the work of others as acknowledged
All roads lead to Rome? F rechulf of L isieux, A ugustine and O rosius
This article considers the influence exerted by A ugustine's C ity of G od and O rosius's H istories against the P agans on the C arolingian historian, F rechulf of L isieux. In particular, it explores how these two explicitly R oman texts were read and understood in the ninth century, and how they in turn shaped the place of R ome and its empire within F rechulf's narrative. In the first half of this article, I shall take into account modern dis…
Gwion Gwion
Historiography and Identity III
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Aiatsis)
Historiography and Identity III
Historiography and identity III: Carolingian Approaches is the third volume of a series of six, which aims to study the relationship between the writing of history and the construction of identity from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Taken together, these volumes hope to recover the potential that historiography developed to articulate and shape strategies of identification in the ancient, late ancient, and medieval worlds. The third volume explore…
Audience and Reception
This chapter sketches a basic conceptual framework for identifying and analysing the audiences and receptions of the kind of medieval biographical collections studied in this special issue. To do so, it sets out the range of approaches taken by the contributors and situates these approaches in relation to previous scholarship on the reception and interpretation of textual sources. Particular attention is given to the dynamic relationships between…
Reading Jerome’s De viris illustribus in the Post-Roman World
Catalogues of the names and writings of religious authors and authorities were one of the most enduring forms of biographical collection in the Middle Ages, with rich and varied traditions surviving in both Christian and Islamic contexts. In the Christian world, Jeromeâ s De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men) was foundational. Written in 392/393, Jeromeâ s catalogue of authorities was frequently read and used as a source of information for ov…
Eingegangene Bücher
Reading Orosius in eleventh-century Moissac
The text of Orosius’s Historiae preserved in Paris BnF lat. 4871 was copied at the southern French abbey of Moissac in the mid-eleventh century. This article uses this understudied manuscript to explore the roles Orosius could play in the intellectual life of a medieval monastic community. In particular, it focuses on the abundance of glosses and a distinctive prologue (the so-called Praefatiuncula in Orosio) that were copied as part of the Histo…
Archaeology (16 works) · History (16 works) · Geography (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works)