Dan Berger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 410902 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dan Berger |
| PRENOMES | Dan |
| SOBRENOME | Berger |
| ASSINATURA | BERGER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6214-2264 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1782 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Hastrup hoard
We present one of the largest Late Nordic Bronze Age hoard found in recent times from Hastrup, Denmark. • Archaeometallurgical analyses reveal the use of mixed copper sources, originating from multiple Alpine regions. • Certain artefacts, appear to have been made from a single batch of copper, indicating production within the same workshop. • We suggest the Hastrup hoard as comprising female garment ornaments, likely to have held ritual significa…
From Land's End to the Levant
Bronze Age–Early Iron Age tin ingots recovered from four Mediterranean shipwrecks off the coasts of Israel and southern France can now be provenanced to tin ores in south-west Britain. These exceptionally rich and accessible ores played a fundamental role in the transition from copper to full tin-bronze metallurgy across Europe and the Mediterranean during the second millennium BC. The authors’ application of a novel combination of three independ…
Cypriot copper in the Swiss ‘Hinterland’? New evidence for long-distance copper trade around 1400 BC from Möriken-Wildegg
The dynamic nature and vast distances of exchange networks in the European Bronze Age are gradually being revealed through an increasing array of provenance studies. Here, the authors report the results of elemental and lead and copper isotope analyses of eight copper-based artefacts from a Middle to early Late Bronze Age settlement in Möriken-Wildegg (Switzerland’s Canton of Aargau). Diverse origins for the copper are identified, including the e…
Ashjan Ajour, Reclaiming Humanity in Palestinian Hunger Strikes
Abolition and Liberation
An Interchange on Teaching behind the WallsThe participants in this interchange were brought together by Stevie Wilson, in the face of considerable logistical challenges.Wilson lives behind prison walls-with standard electronic modes of communication not available or quite circumscribed.In particular, e-mail access was limited.Messages cost money to send and were limited to two thousand characters-more than Twitter, to be sure, but not conducive …
Interlinking research
The Big Exchange project investigates large-scale exchange systems in Eurasia and Africa (8000-1 BC). We concentrate on raw materials of known origin ('sourced finds'). Network analysis of tools and artificial intelligence methods are used to analyse the combined data sets. We invite broad collaboration on bimodal exchange networks
The Salcombe metal cargoes
Identifying mixtures of metals by multi‐isotope analysis
This pilot study addresses the analytical characterisation of 26 well‐known bronze objects of the Early and Middle Bronze Age of Central and Northern Europe. Besides swords and axes of the hoards from Apa, Téglás and Hajdúsámson, the investigation includes the famous Sky Disc and its accompanying finds from the Nebra hoard and several full‐hilted swords from Period I in Denmark. In contrast to former publications, the isotopic systematics of lead…
Shiny bronze in glassy matter
This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the beginnings of tin and bronze metallurgy in Central Asia by investigating a hitherto unique piece of a bronze slag. The object was originally discovered as a stray find only 4 km away from the large copper-tin deposit of Mušiston in Tajikistan. It contains many prills of bronze and copper as well as small charcoal particles. Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal places the slag in a per…
Revealing ancient gold parting with silver and copper isotopes
Gold parting enabled the production of very pure gold for various purposes from the sixth century BC onwards, but analytical proof of this pyrotechnical process is difficult. We describe a new analytical approach for the identification of purified gold combining silver and copper isotopic with trace element analyses. Parting experiments were performed with gold-silver-copper alloys using the classical salt cementation process to investigate poten…
On smelting cassiterite in geological and archaeological samples
Tin isotope fractionation during experimental cassiterite smelting and its implication for tracing the tin sources of prehistoric metal artefacts
Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of…
Quantitative comparisons of the color of CuAs, CuSn, CuNi, and CuSb alloys
City of Inmates
In her contribution to the growing literature on the carceral state, Kelly Lytle Hernández makes three signal contributions: first, whereas much of the carceral state literature focuses on the mid-twentieth century, Hernández provides a long-arc history of punishment in one place from settlement to the mid-1960s. The issue of settlement is her second contribution, for she frames prison within the context of settler colonialism in the Tongva Basin…
Civil Rights and Beyond
Can Technology Help Promote Equality of Educational Opportunities
This chapter assesses the potential for several prominent technological innovations to promote equality of educational opportunities. We review the history of technological innovations in education and describe several prominent innovations, including intelligent tutoring, blended learning, and virtual schooling
Gendering Radicalism
Journal Article Gendering Radicalism: Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California Get access By Slutsky Beth. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. xiv, 259 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 231–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw103 Published: 01 June 2016
Captive Nation
This book offers a reconsideration of twentieth-century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, radical black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in America. Arguing that the prison was the central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s …
A mysterious black ornamentation on an Early Bronze Age dagger from Schoolbek (Kosel), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Fictionalizing Radical Activism of the 1960s
True crime traffics in the imagined thoughts, superficial characterization, and high-voltage action of characters rendered unbelievable by the dictates of a Manichean genre. It is a genre of stereo
Artificial patination in Early Iron Age Europe
The Struggle Within
“More militancy!” is an oftheard demand of the left. It is the subject of position papers and propaganda, of academic study and debate. We lament militancy of days past: the wildcat strikes, the mass demonstrations, the fighting movements. But we must not forget that the militancy of yesteryear was not without casualties. In particular, we have inherited the legacy of militants of the recent past. We have our martyrs: some, like Black Panthers Ge…
Violence and Cell Phone Communication
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following CIA interventions, imports from the US increased dramatically, while total exports to the US were unaffected. The surge in imports was concentrated in industries in which the US had a comparative disadvantage, not a comparative advantage. Our analysis is able to rul…
Quantitative comparisons of the color of CuAs, CuSn, CuNi, and CuSb alloys
The Salcombe metal cargoes
Tin isotope fractionation during experimental cassiterite smelting and its implication for tracing the tin sources of prehistoric metal artefacts
On smelting cassiterite in geological and archaeological samples
Shiny bronze in glassy matter
This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the beginnings of tin and bronze metallurgy in Central Asia by investigating a hitherto unique piece of a bronze slag. The object was originally discovered as a stray find only 4 km away from the large copper-tin deposit of Mušiston in Tajikistan. It contains many prills of bronze and copper as well as small charcoal particles. Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal places the slag in a per…
Social Movements and Mass Incarceration
This article reads social movements into the story of the American carceral state in two ways. First, rather than see mass incarceration as emanating only from the war on drugs, I locate it within a broader framework of political repression of radical movements. Second, I argue that there is a new social movement against imprisonment on the rise. This burgeoning movement pursues what I call a strategy of decarceration that combines radical critiq…
Constructing crime, framing disaster
This article argues that the media frames utilized in the first month after Hurricane Katrina legitimated punishment as disaster policy through lurid reports of individual crime. The application of prevailing state policies led to a quick embrace of punitive policing and incarceration, and journalistic routines ended up supporting this process. Although journalists openly expressed their disgust with state neglect, news conventions nonetheless cr…
Can Technology Help Promote Equality of Educational Opportunities
This chapter assesses the potential for several prominent technological innovations to promote equality of educational opportunities. We review the history of technological innovations in education and describe several prominent innovations, including intelligent tutoring, blended learning, and virtual schooling
Identifying mixtures of metals by multi‐isotope analysis
This pilot study addresses the analytical characterisation of 26 well‐known bronze objects of the Early and Middle Bronze Age of Central and Northern Europe. Besides swords and axes of the hoards from Apa, Téglás and Hajdúsámson, the investigation includes the famous Sky Disc and its accompanying finds from the Nebra hoard and several full‐hilted swords from Period I in Denmark. In contrast to former publications, the isotopic systematics of lead…
Revealing ancient gold parting with silver and copper isotopes
Gold parting enabled the production of very pure gold for various purposes from the sixth century BC onwards, but analytical proof of this pyrotechnical process is difficult. We describe a new analytical approach for the identification of purified gold combining silver and copper isotopic with trace element analyses. Parting experiments were performed with gold-silver-copper alloys using the classical salt cementation process to investigate poten…
New insights into early bronze age damascene technique north of the alps
Damascening, defined in this context as the inlay of one metal into a different metal base, is a rare decorative technique in the Early Bronze Age, known only from seven bronze artefacts found north of the Alps. This paper reports on the first thorough scientific examination of one such find, the axe from Thun-Renzenbühl grave no. 1. This interdisciplinary project involving several institutions in Germany and Switzerland investigated the axe by m…
From Land's End to the Levant
Bronze Age–Early Iron Age tin ingots recovered from four Mediterranean shipwrecks off the coasts of Israel and southern France can now be provenanced to tin ores in south-west Britain. These exceptionally rich and accessible ores played a fundamental role in the transition from copper to full tin-bronze metallurgy across Europe and the Mediterranean during the second millennium BC. The authors’ application of a novel combination of three independ…
A mysterious black ornamentation on an Early Bronze Age dagger from Schoolbek (Kosel), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Capital Controls, Political Institutions, and Economic Growth
Statistical studies on the effects of capital controls on growth have generally yielded insignificant results. In this paper, we show that capital controls negatively affect growth in authoritarian countries, while growth in democratic countries is insignificantly affected. We also show that the adverse effects of capital controls likely pass through the efficiency of investment. Our findings suggest that policy makers should take careful account…
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Teaching Afro-Asian Solidarity, Historical Methodology, and FBI Surveillance
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Fragility of Religious Doctrine
Journal Article The Fragility of Religious Doctrine: Accounting for Orthodox Acquiescence in the Belief in a Second Coming Get access David Berger David Berger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2002, Pages 103–114, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/22.2.103 Published: 01 May 2002
The Weather Underground's place in history
Jonah Raskin offers a valuable perspective on the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) 30 years after its dissolution and amidst its modern resurgence in popularity. His position as both an insid
Capital Controls, Political Institutions, and Economic Growth
Statistical studies on the effects of capital controls on growth have generally yielded insignificant results. In this paper, we show that capital controls negatively affect growth in authoritarian countries, while growth in democratic countries is insignificantly affected. We also show that the adverse effects of capital controls likely pass through the efficiency of investment. Our findings suggest that policy makers should take careful account…
Learning from Africa
Matt Meyer, Time Is Tight: Urgent Tasks for Educational Transformation: Eritrea, South Africa, and the U.S. (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2007), 202 pages, paperback, $24.95.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Rescuing Civil Rights from Black Power
Rescuing Civil Rights from Black Power:Collective Memory and Saving the State in Twenty-First-Century Prosecutions of 1960s-Era Cases Dan Berger History, I contend, is the present—we, with every breath we take, every move we make, are History—and what goes around, comes around. —James Baldwin Recent historical studies have shown that the movement for black power significantly predated its 1966 emergence as a slogan during a protest march in Missi…
Constructing crime, framing disaster
This article argues that the media frames utilized in the first month after Hurricane Katrina legitimated punishment as disaster policy through lurid reports of individual crime. The application of prevailing state policies led to a quick embrace of punitive policing and incarceration, and journalistic routines ended up supporting this process. Although journalists openly expressed their disgust with state neglect, news conventions nonetheless cr…
Communications Networks, Movements and the Neoliberal City
Using the Philadelphia-based organization Media Mobilizing Project as a case study, this article argues for a more sophisticated understanding of social movement networks. We argue that the fragmentation of the neoliberal city has increased the saliency of networked-based organizing. Contrary to much of the existing scholarly literature, however, we argue that such networks combine horizontal and vertical forms of organization, as well as online …
Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and mass incarceration
In the 1960s and 1970s, many activists looked to the prisons for political leadership, while viewing prisons themselves as institutions of repression and social control integral to larger systems of oppression. Around the world, the prisoner emerged as an icon of state repression and a beacon of liberation. If the prison served as the bricks and mortar of oppression, the prisoner became the flesh and blood of movement iconography. Black American …
Doing Time in the Depression
Journal Article Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons Get access Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. By Ethan Blue. (New York: New York University Press, 2012. x, 326 pp. $40.00.) Dan Berger Dan Berger University of Washington BothellBothell, Washington [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hi…
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following CIA interventions, imports from the US increased dramatically, while total exports to the US were unaffected. The surge in imports was concentrated in industries in which the US had a comparative disadvantage, not a comparative advantage. Our analysis is able to rul…
St Peter in Volders’ and related base metal figurines resembling the famous statue in the Vatican Basilica
The reappraisal of an old find from Volders near Innsbruck, Austria, prompted new research on a group of base-metal statuettes that are miniature copies of the famous bronze statue of St Peter in the Vatican Basilica in Rome. Their age has been the subject of debate. This paper examined several examples of such statuettes to solve the issue with the help of archaeometric analysis. The analysis of the manufacturing technique and alloy composition …
New insights into early bronze age damascene technique north of the alps
Damascening, defined in this context as the inlay of one metal into a different metal base, is a rare decorative technique in the Early Bronze Age, known only from seven bronze artefacts found north of the Alps. This paper reports on the first thorough scientific examination of one such find, the axe from Thun-Renzenbühl grave no. 1. This interdisciplinary project involving several institutions in Germany and Switzerland investigated the axe by m…
Social Movements and Mass Incarceration
This article reads social movements into the story of the American carceral state in two ways. First, rather than see mass incarceration as emanating only from the war on drugs, I locate it within a broader framework of political repression of radical movements. Second, I argue that there is a new social movement against imprisonment on the rise. This burgeoning movement pursues what I call a strategy of decarceration that combines radical critiq…
The Struggle Within
“More militancy!” is an oftheard demand of the left. It is the subject of position papers and propaganda, of academic study and debate. We lament militancy of days past: the wildcat strikes, the mass demonstrations, the fighting movements. But we must not forget that the militancy of yesteryear was not without casualties. In particular, we have inherited the legacy of militants of the recent past. We have our martyrs: some, like Black Panthers Ge…
Violence and Cell Phone Communication
Captive Nation
This book offers a reconsideration of twentieth-century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, radical black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression while arguing that confinement was an inescapable part of black life in America. Arguing that the prison was the central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s …
A mysterious black ornamentation on an Early Bronze Age dagger from Schoolbek (Kosel), Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Fictionalizing Radical Activism of the 1960s
True crime traffics in the imagined thoughts, superficial characterization, and high-voltage action of characters rendered unbelievable by the dictates of a Manichean genre. It is a genre of stereo
Artificial patination in Early Iron Age Europe
Civil Rights and Beyond
Can Technology Help Promote Equality of Educational Opportunities
This chapter assesses the potential for several prominent technological innovations to promote equality of educational opportunities. We review the history of technological innovations in education and describe several prominent innovations, including intelligent tutoring, blended learning, and virtual schooling
Gendering Radicalism
Journal Article Gendering Radicalism: Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California Get access By Slutsky Beth. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. xiv, 259 pp. $45.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 231–232, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw103 Published: 01 June 2016
Rethinking the American Prison Movement
Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of…
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