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David Kennedy

Other affiliations: University of Sheffield
Bio: David Kennedy is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aerial archaeology & Population. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 84 publications receiving 1135 citations. Previous affiliations of David Kennedy include University of Sheffield.


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01 Jan 2001-Levant
TL;DR: Gilbertson et al. as mentioned in this paper have recently published The Negev: A Mediterranean Valley, an excellent contribution to the field of water harvesting in arid areas of the Middle East.
Abstract: Twenty years ago, on the recommendation of one of this book's authors (Gilbertson), this reviewer borrowed a copy of The Negev (Evenari et at. 1971; 1982). It was wonderful. There, often in remarkable aerial views, were the traces of farms and water harvesting structures in wadis and hillsides in the arid environment of the Negev Desert. I bought a copy and later on a subsequent recommendation bought Rainwater Harvesting (Pacey and Cullis 1986). Now we have this marvellous contribution to the subject by Gilbertson and his colleagues Graeme Barker, Barri Jones and David Mattingly. The book has recently been awarded the James Wiseman Prize of the Archaeological Institute of America. The subject area is Tripolitania but the subject matter is of relevance far beyond that part of modern Libya: to everyone working in arid zones; to Roman archaeologists and historians; and to those interested in the battery of techniques encompassed by the term 'survey' in this case. The model for the book will be familiar to those who have read Barker's A Mediterranean Valley (1996a; 1996b; cf. Kennedy 1996). First, a volume of synthesis with chapters written by several authors and turned into a coherent narrative from geological time to the present day by one of them (Barker in both cases). Then a volume setting out the principal data on which the first is based. For example, in Volume 1 we are referred to Gasr Bularkan. "a small quadriburgus" . That can then be viewed in a gazetteer entry in Volume 2, 173-5 Md2, located there on Fig. 26. 4, a plan in Fig. 26. 8 and a photo of its wall at Fig. 26. 9. It is a successful model made the more friendly by the clarity of the text in general and the frequency with which the objectives are set out and rehearsed; individual chapters are provided with their own conclusions which are then pulled together in a final chapter. From a wealth of possibilities, this review will aim to do three things. First, to outline what the book is about; second to comment on some features; and

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TL;DR: The culture of the countryside 7. Consuming Rome 8. Keeping faith? 9. Roman power and the Gauls 10. Being Roman in Gaul 11. Mapping cultural change as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: 1. On Romanization 2. Roman power and the Gauls 3. The civilising ethos 4. Mapping cultural change 5. Urbanising the Gauls 6. The culture of the countryside 7. Consuming Rome 8. Keeping faith? 9. Being Roman in Gaul.

370 citations

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01 Jan 1982

296 citations

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Jason Ur1
TL;DR: This paper showed how declassified military photographs of north-eastern Syria are revealing the routeways, and by inference the agricultural systems of Mesopotamia in the early Bronze Age, by inferring the agricultural system from military photographs.
Abstract: Middle-eastern archaeologists are winning new information from declassified military photographs taken 25 years ago. This study shows how pictures of north-eastern Syria are revealing the routeways, and by inference the agricultural systems of Mesopotamia in the early Bronze Age.

229 citations

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01 Dec 1997
TL;DR: In the provinces the architectural and art forms characteristic of the Flavian era continued to flourish as mentioned in this paper and Dynamism returned to imperial commissions with the Romano-Spanish Trajan, who was able to impress upon it his own many-sided personality: ruler, philhellene, architect, dilettante, poet, traveller and romantic.
Abstract: Greek artefacts, craftsmen and artists had penetrated Rome since regal days; from the second century BC this trickle had become a continuing and influential flood, contributing together with Italic and Etruscan architecture and art, and the developing central Italian and Roman concrete architecture, to the rich tapestry of the art of the capital. Vespasian (69-79), founder of the Flavian dynasty, showed an astute pragmatism in his handling of architecture and art. In the provinces the architectural and art forms characteristic of the Flavian era continued to flourish. Dynamism returned to imperial commissions with the Romano-Spanish Trajan. The age of Hadrian (117-38) proved to be extraordinary, largely because of the extent to which he was able to impress upon it his own many-sided personality: ruler, philhellene, architect, dilettante, poet, traveller and romantic. The rich artistic harvest of the Flavian to the Antonine ages was not just an imperial, but a corporate achievement, one which offered a worthy inheritance to following generations.

172 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the outlook for business, regional aircraft sales remains buoyant, Bombardier maintains, maintaining that the number of aircraft sales will remain relatively flat for the foreseeable future.
Abstract: Subtitle: Outlook for business, regional aircraft sales remains buoyant, Bombardier maintains.

169 citations