J A Baird
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 233107 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J A Baird |
| PRENOMES | J A |
| SOBRENOME | Baird |
| ASSINATURA | BAIRD J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4705-0289 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Looted communities
Throughout the Syrian conflict (2011–2024), cultural heritage was both a deliberate target and an incidental casualty. Damage to the complicated relationships between communities and local and regional heritage has a much longer lineage. This article draws on oral histories conducted during the recent conflict to explore the relationship between the major archaeological site of Dura-Europos and local communities and stakeholders. It argues that s…
Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives
This article addresses the historical and ongoing exclusion of descendant and local communities, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from digital archaeological archives. We contend that current digitization practices often perpetuate colonial-era biases through limited, monolingual metadata that fail to reflect or engage with local histories and knowledge systems. Noting the insufficiency of current FAIR (Findable, Accessibl…
Collecting Palmyra
Palmyra has been pivotal in archaeological and historical research due to the wealth of material and the long history of fascination with the site. Its material culture can be found on every continent except Antarctica, in more than 250 public museums and private collections. This article focuses on the modern global dispersal of Palmyra’s material culture, specifically its characteristic funerary reliefs, and examines the ways in which the consu…
Reading Field Diaries against the Grain
Before standardized context forms, before section drawing, and before photography, archaeology was recorded in field notebooks. Field diaries are perhaps the archetypal archaeological document both in the field and in the archive, and they persist in various contemporary forms as a key means of recording. Based on archaeological field diaries made in Syria during the French Mandate, in particular those of Clark Hopkins at Dura-Europos and Harald …
Knowing Palmyra
During the Syrian conflict, ongoing since 2011, Palmyra became notorious for the destruction and looting of its Roman-period remains, giving rise to many narratives of what Palmyra's future should bring, often without attention to how we have come to know its past. This article explores that past through a key period-the French Mandate-when European archaeologists categorically reshaped the site, culminating in the relocation of the site's popula…
Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
One of the greatest benefits of studying the ancient Greek and Roman past is the ability to utilise different forms of evidence, in particular both written and archaeological sources. The contributors to this volume employ this evidence to examine ancient housing, and what might be learned of identities, families, and societies, but they also use it as a methodological locus from which to interrogate the complex relationship between different typ…
Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Danish diaries of Palmyra
Many things that we now call 'archaeological archives' are actually personal collections of documentation made and amassed by archaeologists, some of which have found their way into institutions. This is indeed the case for the collections of Harald Ingholt (1896-1985), a Danish archaeologist and philologist who worked at Palmyra in the 1920s and 1930s and had a long career that was spent mostly in the USA at Yale University, studying Syrian and …
The Ruination of Dura-Europos
Ann Laura Stoler has asked what happens when we shift our scrutiny from the picturesque ruins of empire to the ongoing process of ruination. Examining some of the many and continuing ruinations of the site Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates, this paper compares ancient and modern destructions by the Roman army, Sasanian forces, Yale archaeologists and ‘Islamic State’, and questions the different way these are understood. Through these stories o…
Remembering Roman Syria
The 1753 publication of The Ruins of Palmyra by Robert Wood was key in the formation of archaeological understandings of the site. Examining the original notebooks and drawings of the expedition, which formed the basis for this publication (now held by the Combined Library of the Institute of Classical Studies and the Hellenic and Roman Societies in London), this article examines the relationship between those first documents, the publication, an…
Framing the past
Archaeology continually reproduces its own images. Speaking archaeology's visual language is one way we prove membership in the discipline. Many aspects of this visual language have become so naturalized within archaeological representation as to be almost unquestionable: the cleaning of the site, the use of scale, and particular framings and perspectives. How, then, is the production of particular photographic images of archaeology related to th…
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan. Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
"Competitive Archaeology in Jordan. Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites." Levant, 48(2), pp. 209–210
On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor
On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor J. A. Baird (bio) Can a single object change how we think about ancient sexual labor? Using the evidence of an artefact excavated near Pompeii, in this article I argue that our material evidence for sexual labor has not been properly appreciated, and that by more fully considering the range of human relationships associated with and enabled by objects, the possibilities for a more nuanced un…
The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. This is the first study to consider the houses of the site as a whole, integrating architecture, artefacts, and textual evidence, and examining ancient daily life and cultural interaction
Re-excavating the houses of Dura-Europos
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Photographing Dura-Europos, 1928-1937
Recent years have seen the emergence of scholarship on the history of archaeology and receptions of the classical past. Neither of these trends has fully engaged with the visual evidence, particularly that of photography, or with the material form of the archive itself. Using archival photographs taken at the site of Dura-Europos from 1928 to 1937, this article explores how the study of archaeological photographs and archaeological archives can c…
Shopping, Eating, and Drinking at Dura-Europos
The site of Dura-Europos, excavated in the 1920s and 30s but never completely published, has long been of archaeological interest for its exceptional preservation. This article questions the original identifications of the excavators of houses and shops, explores what can be learned about commercial buildings at the site from the re-contextualisation of artefacts, and examines how this information can add to our understanding of life at Dura
The Bizarre Bazaar
Why those who Shovel are Silent
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 154(3), pp. 254–255
Photographing Dura-Europos, 1928-1937
Recent years have seen the emergence of scholarship on the history of archaeology and receptions of the classical past. Neither of these trends has fully engaged with the visual evidence, particularly that of photography, or with the material form of the archive itself. Using archival photographs taken at the site of Dura-Europos from 1928 to 1937, this article explores how the study of archaeological photographs and archaeological archives can c…
Framing the past
Archaeology continually reproduces its own images. Speaking archaeology's visual language is one way we prove membership in the discipline. Many aspects of this visual language have become so naturalized within archaeological representation as to be almost unquestionable: the cleaning of the site, the use of scale, and particular framings and perspectives. How, then, is the production of particular photographic images of archaeology related to th…
On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor
On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor J. A. Baird (bio) Can a single object change how we think about ancient sexual labor? Using the evidence of an artefact excavated near Pompeii, in this article I argue that our material evidence for sexual labor has not been properly appreciated, and that by more fully considering the range of human relationships associated with and enabled by objects, the possibilities for a more nuanced un…
Remembering Roman Syria
The 1753 publication of The Ruins of Palmyra by Robert Wood was key in the formation of archaeological understandings of the site. Examining the original notebooks and drawings of the expedition, which formed the basis for this publication (now held by the Combined Library of the Institute of Classical Studies and the Hellenic and Roman Societies in London), this article examines the relationship between those first documents, the publication, an…
Reading Field Diaries against the Grain
Before standardized context forms, before section drawing, and before photography, archaeology was recorded in field notebooks. Field diaries are perhaps the archetypal archaeological document both in the field and in the archive, and they persist in various contemporary forms as a key means of recording. Based on archaeological field diaries made in Syria during the French Mandate, in particular those of Clark Hopkins at Dura-Europos and Harald …
The Bizarre Bazaar
Shopping, Eating, and Drinking at Dura-Europos
The site of Dura-Europos, excavated in the 1920s and 30s but never completely published, has long been of archaeological interest for its exceptional preservation. This article questions the original identifications of the excavators of houses and shops, explores what can be learned about commercial buildings at the site from the re-contextualisation of artefacts, and examines how this information can add to our understanding of life at Dura
Photographing Dura-Europos, 1928-1937
Recent years have seen the emergence of scholarship on the history of archaeology and receptions of the classical past. Neither of these trends has fully engaged with the visual evidence, particularly that of photography, or with the material form of the archive itself. Using archival photographs taken at the site of Dura-Europos from 1928 to 1937, this article explores how the study of archaeological photographs and archaeological archives can c…
Re-excavating the houses of Dura-Europos
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. This is the first study to consider the houses of the site as a whole, integrating architecture, artefacts, and textual evidence, and examining ancient daily life and cultural interaction
On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor
On Reading the Material Culture of Ancient Sexual Labor J. A. Baird (bio) Can a single object change how we think about ancient sexual labor? Using the evidence of an artefact excavated near Pompeii, in this article I argue that our material evidence for sexual labor has not been properly appreciated, and that by more fully considering the range of human relationships associated with and enabled by objects, the possibilities for a more nuanced un…
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan. Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
"Competitive Archaeology in Jordan. Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites." Levant, 48(2), pp. 209–210
Framing the past
Archaeology continually reproduces its own images. Speaking archaeology's visual language is one way we prove membership in the discipline. Many aspects of this visual language have become so naturalized within archaeological representation as to be almost unquestionable: the cleaning of the site, the use of scale, and particular framings and perspectives. How, then, is the production of particular photographic images of archaeology related to th…
Remembering Roman Syria
The 1753 publication of The Ruins of Palmyra by Robert Wood was key in the formation of archaeological understandings of the site. Examining the original notebooks and drawings of the expedition, which formed the basis for this publication (now held by the Combined Library of the Institute of Classical Studies and the Hellenic and Roman Societies in London), this article examines the relationship between those first documents, the publication, an…
The Ruination of Dura-Europos
Ann Laura Stoler has asked what happens when we shift our scrutiny from the picturesque ruins of empire to the ongoing process of ruination. Examining some of the many and continuing ruinations of the site Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates, this paper compares ancient and modern destructions by the Roman army, Sasanian forces, Yale archaeologists and ‘Islamic State’, and questions the different way these are understood. Through these stories o…
Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
One of the greatest benefits of studying the ancient Greek and Roman past is the ability to utilise different forms of evidence, in particular both written and archaeological sources. The contributors to this volume employ this evidence to examine ancient housing, and what might be learned of identities, families, and societies, but they also use it as a methodological locus from which to interrogate the complex relationship between different typ…
Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Danish diaries of Palmyra
Many things that we now call 'archaeological archives' are actually personal collections of documentation made and amassed by archaeologists, some of which have found their way into institutions. This is indeed the case for the collections of Harald Ingholt (1896-1985), a Danish archaeologist and philologist who worked at Palmyra in the 1920s and 1930s and had a long career that was spent mostly in the USA at Yale University, studying Syrian and …
Knowing Palmyra
During the Syrian conflict, ongoing since 2011, Palmyra became notorious for the destruction and looting of its Roman-period remains, giving rise to many narratives of what Palmyra's future should bring, often without attention to how we have come to know its past. This article explores that past through a key period-the French Mandate-when European archaeologists categorically reshaped the site, culminating in the relocation of the site's popula…
Reading Field Diaries against the Grain
Before standardized context forms, before section drawing, and before photography, archaeology was recorded in field notebooks. Field diaries are perhaps the archetypal archaeological document both in the field and in the archive, and they persist in various contemporary forms as a key means of recording. Based on archaeological field diaries made in Syria during the French Mandate, in particular those of Clark Hopkins at Dura-Europos and Harald …
Why those who Shovel are Silent
Why those who Shovel are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge." Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 154(3), pp. 254–255
Looted communities
Throughout the Syrian conflict (2011–2024), cultural heritage was both a deliberate target and an incidental casualty. Damage to the complicated relationships between communities and local and regional heritage has a much longer lineage. This article draws on oral histories conducted during the recent conflict to explore the relationship between the major archaeological site of Dura-Europos and local communities and stakeholders. It argues that s…
Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives
This article addresses the historical and ongoing exclusion of descendant and local communities, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from digital archaeological archives. We contend that current digitization practices often perpetuate colonial-era biases through limited, monolingual metadata that fail to reflect or engage with local histories and knowledge systems. Noting the insufficiency of current FAIR (Findable, Accessibl…
Collecting Palmyra
Palmyra has been pivotal in archaeological and historical research due to the wealth of material and the long history of fascination with the site. Its material culture can be found on every continent except Antarctica, in more than 250 public museums and private collections. This article focuses on the modern global dispersal of Palmyra’s material culture, specifically its characteristic funerary reliefs, and examines the ways in which the consu…
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