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Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes (2015)
Journal Article
Pavlenko, A., & Mullen, A. (2015). Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes. Linguistic Landscape, 1(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.1.1-2.07pav

It is commonly argued that the proliferation of urban writing known as linguistic landscapes represents “a thoroughly contemporary global trend” (Coupland, 2010: 78). The purpose of this paper is to show that linguistic landscapes are by no means mod... Read More about Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes.

Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo (2015)
Book Chapter
Fotheringham, L. S. (2015). Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo. In R. Ash, J. Mossman, & F. B. Titchener (Eds.), Fame and infamy: essays for Christopher Pelling on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography (193-207). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199662326.003.0013

The accounts of the trial of Milo given by Plutarch and Dio provide a valuable insight into the working methods of the two writers. A close examination of the incident in relation to the structure of Plutarch’s Life of Cicero confirms that the Life i... Read More about Plutarch and Dio on Cicero at the Trial of Milo.

The Tyche of Berytus: a Phoenician goddess on civic coinage. (2015)
Journal Article
Kropp, A. (2015). The Tyche of Berytus: a Phoenician goddess on civic coinage. https://doi.org/10.1628/219944615X14296073073575

This contribution deals with images of Tyche on the civic bronze coinage of the Roman colony of Berytus (Beirut). The visual type of this local patron goddess, a hybrid composition drawing on a variety of iconographic sources, was created in the late... Read More about The Tyche of Berytus: a Phoenician goddess on civic coinage..

Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated? (2015)
Journal Article
Preece, C., Livarda, A., Wallace, M., Martin, G., Charles, M., Christin, P.-A., Jones, G., Rees, M., & Osborne, C. P. (2015). Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?. New Phytologist, 207(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13353

During the origin of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent, the broad spectrum of wild plant species exploited by hunter-gatherers narrowed dramatically. The mechanisms responsible for this specialization and the associated domestication of plants are... Read More about Were Fertile Crescent crop progenitors higher yielding than other wild species that were never domesticated?.

The ‘mosaic habitat’ concept in human evolution: past and present (2015)
Journal Article
Reynolds, S. C., Wilkinson, D. M., Marston, C. G., & O'Regan, H. J. (2015). The ‘mosaic habitat’ concept in human evolution: past and present. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 70(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2015.1007490

The habitats preferred by hominins and other species are an important theme in palaeoanthropology, and the 'mosaic habitat' (also referred to as habitat heterogeneity) has been a central concept in this regard for the last four decades. Here we explo... Read More about The ‘mosaic habitat’ concept in human evolution: past and present.

Reconstructing the Roman London flavourscape: new insights into the exotic food plant trade using network and spatial analyses (2015)
Journal Article
Livarda, A., & Orengo, H. A. (2015). Reconstructing the Roman London flavourscape: new insights into the exotic food plant trade using network and spatial analyses. Journal of Archaeological Science, 55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.008

Using archaeobotanical data and examining them with a novel combination of density interpolation surfaces and social and spatial network analyses, this study has brought together exotic food plants in Roman London to outline the changing ‘face’ of it... Read More about Reconstructing the Roman London flavourscape: new insights into the exotic food plant trade using network and spatial analyses.

Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini (2015)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2015). Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini. In A. Guidi (Ed.), 150 anni di preistoria e protostoria in Italia. Istituto italiano di preistoria e protostoria

Giovanni Patroni e l’opp osizione a Luigi Pigorini - Giovanni Patroni (1868-1951) is notorious for a virulently anti-communist passage describing the inhabitants of the Terramare, which appears in his La Preistoria d’Italia (2 vols, Milan, 1937). He... Read More about Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini.

Smell and the ancient senses (2015)
Book
Bradley, M. (2015). M. Bradley (Ed.), Smell and the ancient senses. Routledge

From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and Roman writers and thinkers lost no opportunity to con... Read More about Smell and the ancient senses.

Bibliography (2015)
Other
Lorenz, K. (2015). Bibliography

Bibliography of publications by Katharina Lorenz, 2005-2015.

Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus. In R. Mayhew (Ed.), The Aristotelian Problemata physica: philosophical and scientific investigations. Brill

Discusses the various ways in which the Aristotelian Problemata engage with the Hippocratic Corpus, in particular the ways in which they convert Hippocratic material into their question-and-answer format.