1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461132403321

Autore

Puschnigg Gabriele <1966-, >

Titolo

Ceramics of the Merv Oasis : recycling the city / / Gabriele Puschnigg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, CA : , : Left Coast Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-315-43232-3

1-315-43233-1

1-59874-797-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Ancient Merv Project

Disciplina

939/.6

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Merv (Extinct city) History

Turkmenistan Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Context and perspective -- pt. 2. Analysis -- pt. 3. Stylistic evaluation.

Sommario/riassunto

Our knowledge of many groups or periods has benefited from systematic ceramic analysis, however as yet the Sasanian Empire of ancient Persia (224-651 AD) has not be subjected to the same examination. Merv, an expansive ancient city located in an oasis in the Central Asian steppes, was for millennia a gateway for travelers and traders along the Silk Road between east and west. Puschnigg's detailed study of Merv's Sasanian pottery creates a benchmark for other work on this ceramic corpus. She dissects the frequency, dates, wares, and profiles of hundreds of securely excavated pieces and com



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910842262703321

Autore

Beckmann Marie Sophie

Titolo

Records of Disaster : Media Infrastructures and Climate Change / / edited by Jakob Claus, Petra Löffler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lüneburg : , : meson press eG, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

3-95796-209-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages)

Collana

Future Ecologies ;$vvol. 5

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Available through meson press eG.

Sommario/riassunto

Records of Disasters: Media Infrastructures and Climate Change explores how environmental disasters manifest and inscribe themselves in infrastructures. By turning to infrastructures, their logic and functioning, collapse and malfunction, the volume reveals their potential as fragile material witnesses to and of disasters. As climate change is unequally distributed across continuous dynamics and events, time scales and spatial registers, infrastructures can be understood as proxies or seismographs mediating different spatio-temporal layers that make these dynamics tangible. Disaster is made operational by negotiating what is defined as such, and under which geopolitical conditions. What connects melting glaciers and the knowledge from ice cores to the mapping of the ocean floor and the extraction of resources in the deep-sea? How can infrastructures be thought in time and “critical proximity”, and how do they bear witness to colonial pasts and presents? The volume proposes an analytical perspective on infrastructures as multi-layered witnesses to climate change, bringing together scientific and artistic approaches, students and scholars from different disciplines.