Susan E Alcock
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 123902 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan E Alcock |
| PRENOMES | Susan E |
| SOBRENOME | Alcock |
| ASSINATURA | ALCOCK S E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5225-9645 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 470 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Acholla Archaeological Project
The Acholla Archaeological Project is an international collaboration at the site of Acholla (Tunisia) between the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), Dickinson College and the University of Oklahoma, with additional support from the University of Leicester and the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project. The first season of the project took place in June 2025, focusing on three main tasks: fieldwalking, topo…
Sandy Pylos
Power from the Dead
The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present
Joukowsky, Martha Sharp
Fiscal Year 2019 Honor Roll
Previous article FreeFiscal Year 2019 Honor RollPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreBenefactor ($20,000 and up)Susan AckermanArnold and Porter, LLC (in kind)Stevan B. DanaLawrence T. GeratySharon HerbertNorma KershawMacAllister MachineryP. E. MacAllister*Eric and Carol MeyersRichard F. NatarianAnn V. SahlmanThomas and Marilyn Schaub…
The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project
In three field seasons, between 2010 and 2012, the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) conducted a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of Petra, Jordan. While regional reconnaissance has a long history in Jordan, it has rarely been conducted with the “intensive” methodologies today characteristic of projects elsewhere, most proximately in the Mediterranean. Such an approach is ideally suited for the terri…
Production technology of Nabataean painted pottery compared with that of Roman terra sigillata
Stepping It Up (Like a Ziggurat)
The special burden ASOR bears, namely, the fact that its core geographical focus is notoriously in the news, gives its members an especial opportunity and incentive to be vocal on the topic of heritage loss. In this essay, the author discusses the importance of education outreach in this time of heightened awareness of and sympathy for the plight of cultural remains in the Near East, exploring ways that archaeologists can engage and educate the p…
Archaeology and the Mooc
In 2013, Brown University launched Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that, in its two iterations to date, has reached a global audience of some 30,000 people. We first discuss course design, content, assessment practices, and metrics of success within the context provided by other digital archaeological endeavors, as well as reviewing the composition of the online audience. Drawing on this experience, in the …
Looting and vandalism around a World Heritage Site
In 2012 the ancient city of Petra celebrated the 200th anniversary of its Western re-identification. The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) has sought to document the northern hinterland of Petra through a multi-component methodology that includes intensive field survey, feature documentation, and limited test excavations. The iconic site of Petra has a long and storied history, and it is a site that presents many challenges to…
A geophysical investigation of a newly discovered Early Bronze Age site near Petra, Jordan
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre‐Modern World
List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Contributors xiii Series Editor s Preface xvii Preface xix Introduction 1 Susan E. Alcock, John Bodel, and Richard J. A. Talbert 1 Overland Shortcuts for the Transmission of Buddhism 12 Jason Neelis 2 The Power of Highway Networks during China s Classical Era (323 BCE 316 CE): Regulations, Metaphors, Rituals, and Deities 33 Michael Nylan 3 Privatizing the Network: Private Contributions and Road Infrastructur…
Highways, byways, and road systems in the pre-modern world
"The unparalleled network of roads in the empire of ancient Rome was a remarkable achievement--yet this Roman road network is just the most notable example of an important feature of many pre-modern societies worldwide. Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World presents a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across pre-modern cultures. Featuring contributions from …
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
Multiple assessments of local properties, production, and performance in metal objects
Archaeologies of Memory
Making sure you know whom to kill
Article Making sure you know whom to kill: spatial strategies and strategic boundaries in the Eastern Roman Empire was published on December 18, 2007 in the journal Millennium (volume 4, issue 2007)
Chapter 1. “No Greater Marvel”
Alphabet Soup in the Mediterranean Basin
Figure 13.1 captures, in graphic form, an arresting phenomenon. In a nutshell, the past two decades or so have witnessed the emergence of a number of academic journals which deal, to a greater or lesser extent, with the historical Mediterranean. The sample is admittedly a small one; the circulation of many rather limited; the life-span of a few regrettably brief. Nonetheless, the pattern is clear enough to invite review and contextualization, and…
A Simple Case of Exploitation
Exploitation is no simple matter, however, nor have all possible angles been explored in this twisted relationship of ruler and ruled, feeder and fed. A tendency to consider the helots from a ‘central’ perspective, to view them solely as if through Spartiate eyes, has resulted in an emphasis on the manipulation and utilization of these people, or on the effect the system of helotage had – for good or ill – upon the Spartan state and its ‘national…
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VII
In this article, the authors explore patterns in regional activity in Messenia, the southwest corner of the Greek Peloponnese, from the Geometric to the end of the Late Roman period (ca. eighth century B.C. to seventh cen-tury A.D.). The analysis is based on extant historical evidence, the campaigns of the Minnesota Messenia Expedition, and—above all—the results of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. These three data sets have been integra…
Archaeologies of the Greek Past
Archaeologies of Memory
Helots and their masters in Laconia and Messenia
The name evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labour that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial role, Helots remain essentially invisible in our ancient sources and peripheral and enigmatic in modern scholarsh…
Graecia Capta
Dialogues in Roman imperialism
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I
Jack L. Davis, Susan E. Alcock, John Bennet, Yannos G. Lolos, Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1997), pp. 391-494
Archaeologies of Landscape
Urban Survey and the Polis of Phlius
Tomb Cult and the Post-Classical Polis
An archaeological pattern of cult activity at Bronze Age tombs has been detected in the late Classical and Hellenistic periods in Greece. It is argued that the pressures of political and institutional change within the polis at this time engendered the practice. In particular, the need felt by elite elements within the society to announce and legitimate their increasingly dominant role in civic life is believed to be a major impetus behind such c…
Roman imperialism in the Greek landscape
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A geophysical investigation of a newly discovered Early Bronze Age site near Petra, Jordan
Archaeology and Imperialism
The study of imperial systems has been an important growth area in archaeological research in recent years. One aspect that has received attention in a variety of settings is the territorial reorganisation frequently associated with political incorporation. The paper reviews a number of general archaeological and historical patterns of imperial consolidation and outlines some underlying factors, before moving on to consider their applicability in…
Looting and vandalism around a World Heritage Site
In 2012 the ancient city of Petra celebrated the 200th anniversary of its Western re-identification. The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) has sought to document the northern hinterland of Petra through a multi-component methodology that includes intensive field survey, feature documentation, and limited test excavations. The iconic site of Petra has a long and storied history, and it is a site that presents many challenges to…
Archaeologies of the Greek Past
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part VII
In this article, the authors explore patterns in regional activity in Messenia, the southwest corner of the Greek Peloponnese, from the Geometric to the end of the Late Roman period (ca. eighth century B.C. to seventh cen-tury A.D.). The analysis is based on extant historical evidence, the campaigns of the Minnesota Messenia Expedition, and—above all—the results of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project. These three data sets have been integra…
The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project
In three field seasons, between 2010 and 2012, the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) conducted a diachronic archaeological survey of the northern hinterland of Petra, Jordan. While regional reconnaissance has a long history in Jordan, it has rarely been conducted with the “intensive” methodologies today characteristic of projects elsewhere, most proximately in the Mediterranean. Such an approach is ideally suited for the terri…
Multiple assessments of local properties, production, and performance in metal objects
Production technology of Nabataean painted pottery compared with that of Roman terra sigillata
Archaeology and the Mooc
In 2013, Brown University launched Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that, in its two iterations to date, has reached a global audience of some 30,000 people. We first discuss course design, content, assessment practices, and metrics of success within the context provided by other digital archaeological endeavors, as well as reviewing the composition of the online audience. Drawing on this experience, in the …
Archaeology and Imperialism
The study of imperial systems has been an important growth area in archaeological research in recent years. One aspect that has received attention in a variety of settings is the territorial reorganisation frequently associated with political incorporation. The paper reviews a number of general archaeological and historical patterns of imperial consolidation and outlines some underlying factors, before moving on to consider their applicability in…
Roman imperialism in the Greek landscape
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Urban Survey and the Polis of Phlius
Tomb Cult and the Post-Classical Polis
An archaeological pattern of cult activity at Bronze Age tombs has been detected in the late Classical and Hellenistic periods in Greece. It is argued that the pressures of political and institutional change within the polis at this time engendered the practice. In particular, the need felt by elite elements within the society to announce and legitimate their increasingly dominant role in civic life is believed to be a major impetus behind such c…
Spaced-Out Sanctuaries
Effects of the Roman conquest of Greece have been little studied, in favour of emphasising the ‘reverse imperialism’ of Greece’s cultural conquest of Rome. Such a perspective masks the undoubted impact felt throughout Greek society at the time of its incorporation and assimilation into a wider imperial system. This paper examines the Greek response to their altered political and economic state through the evidence of ritual geography, specificall…
Roman Landscapes
A survey of archaeological evidence for agrarian practices around the Mediterranean, based on a 1988 conference at the British School at Rome. Topics covered: Methods and Problems (3 papers); Romanization of the Countryside (Gualdalquivir, Middle Ebro Valley, coastal Catalonia, Sardinia, Dalmatia); Towns and Territories (Ager Tarraconensis, Bologna, Tuscania, Crete, Greece); Lowland Agrarian Structures (Catalonia, N Etruria, Ager Falernus, Piacen…
Placing the Gods
Cult activity played an extremely important role in the lives of individuals and of groups in ancient Greece. Where people worshipped the gods had a major influence on their conceptual geography. In 1984, Francois de Polignac argued that the placing of cult centres played a major part in establishing the whole concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection, headed by one by de Polignac himself in which he reassesses hi…
Placing the gods
Graecia Capta
1. The problem of Roman Greece 2. The rural landscape 3. The civic landscape 4. The provincial landscape 5. The sacred landscape 6. Greece within the empire Notes Bibliography Index
The Great Isthmus Corridor Route
Graecia Capta
Graecia Capta
A Concept in Between
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Survey at any price
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Dialogues in Roman imperialism
ONE. The Heroic Past in a Hellenistic Present
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I
Jack L. Davis, Susan E. Alcock, John Bennet, Yannos G. Lolos, Cynthia W. Shelmerdine, The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project Part I: Overview and the Archaeological Survey, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1997), pp. 391-494
Leaving you hungry for more
One of the more admirable things about this collection of papers is how the authors resist the almost overwhelming temptation to employ food-related, lip-smacking puns. I noted, for example, only one coy ‘food for thought’. This resistance neatly symbolizes, to my mind, a growing sophistication in the archaeology of food, a development seen everywhere in this particular smorgasbord of essays
Pausanias
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias’ Periegesis (“description”) of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greec…
Pausanias
Archaeologies of Landscape
The Light of the Gods
Archaeologies of Memory
Archaeologies of Memory
Helots and their masters in Laconia and Messenia
The name evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labour that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial role, Helots remain essentially invisible in our ancient sources and peripheral and enigmatic in modern scholarsh…
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