Este texto pretende apresentar uma breve história do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da USP, marcando alguns dos momentos mais importantes de sua trajetória na USP. Desde sua criação em 1964, passando pela estruturação de um novo projeto que unificou todas as coleções e pesquisas em arqueologia e etnologia em 1989 e chegando a 2010 com a sua independência como unidade de ensino, pesquisa e extensão no seio da Universidade. The intention of this paper is to present a brief history of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo. Our aim is to register some of the most important moments of this Museum, since its creation back in 1964 down to 2010 moment when it achieved it's administrative and academic autonomy among all the other Schools, Institutes and Faculties of the University
Resumo: Fundada por coríntios na Sicília, no séc. VIII a.C., Siracusa transformou-se em uma das maiores e mais poderosas pólis do mundo grego. Ao longo do primeiro século de instalados na Sicília, os siracusanos fundaram, outros assentamentos na hinterlândia: Heloros, Akrai, Kasmene e Kamarina. Este texto procura demonstrar, por meio da descrição da documentação material, que: 1. Estas fundações foram realizadas em negociação com as populações locais e que portanto a expansão de Siracusa não foi puramente militar e/ou violenta; 2. Por meio destas fundações Siracusa definiu os limites iniciais da expansão territorial que pretendia; 3. Que o espaço vazio entre Siracusa e esses limites foi sendo preenchido aos poucos e em graus differetnes de densidade; 4. Que este movimento de Siracusa permite que entendamos melhor um traço imprescindível do ‘modo de ser grego’, i.e, o domínio de territórios.Abstract: Founded by Corinthians in Sicily in the 8th century, Syracuse soon became one of the biggest and more powerful poleis of the Greek world. During the first century of life in Sicily, the Syracusans founded in the hinterland four other settlements: Heloros, Akrai, Kasmene and Kamarina. This article intends to demonstrate, through the description of material data, that: 1. These foundations were enabled thanks to negotiation with local people and that Syracusan expansion was not exclusively a military/violent one; 2. Through these foundations, Syracuse established boundaries for its initial territorial expansion; 3. The empty space between Syracuse and these boundaries were filled up by degrees and in different conditions; 4. That this movement made by Syracuse allows us to better understand an inherent characteristic of the Greek ‘way of being’, i.e., territorial control.
Trata-se de apresentar em forma de depoimento a minha experiência como uma das primeiras alunas do Programa de Pós-graduação em Arqueologia da Universidade de São Paulo, traçando alguns dos principais momentos da institucionalização da formação de profissionais nesta área do conhecimento em nossa universidade.
We are all familiar with the main questions involved in the adoption and use of coined metal by the Greeks back in the 6th-5th centuries BC; questions such as the steps in the expansion in the Mediterranean area of the habit of coining; abstract value and concrete value; intrinsic value and “fiduciarity” of coined money and so forth. In this short paper, our intention is to focus attention on coin and metal finds in general (hoards, excavations, sporadic findings) in Southern Italy during the 8th- 5th centuries BC our case study intends to call attention to the ways of contact between the apoikiai and non-Greeks communities showing how the expansion of coinage promoted cultural change in this area and period specially as far as the notion of value goes.
This paper uses the Gulliverian metaphor to examine the organization of a well-known Classical orthogonal planning in Magna Graecia, south Italy. After observing the relationship between the elements of the urban grid of Thourioi, we will propose the application of a modular unit formed by the sum of ten Attic feet by the geometer of its urban plan. According to our main argument here, this module orientated the land-measurement of Thourioi by co-measuring the width of ithe roadway network and width/length of blocks, lots, and “major rectangles”. Furthermore, certain alignments in its planning are physically established, as it will be demonstrated in the case of its major roads. Thourioi calls forth through its compositional structure of older formulas a wider horizon of orthogonal planning tradition, an ancient scansion rhythm reified in archaeological patterns of many Greek Western foundations since the VIII century BC.
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