Bronze Age Transformations of the Mediterranean World: A Perspective from the Countryside

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  • čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
  • www.latrobe.edu.au/ Professor Steve Falconer studies the rise and collapse of urbanized societies in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, turning particular attention to the interactions of small agrarian villages with their larger social, political and natural environments. He utilizes settlement pattern, ceramic, faunal and metallurgical data to characterize rural life during the periodic development and abandonment of the region's earliest polities and their regional economies. Professor Falconer has directed excavations at a series of Bronze Age farming and herding settlements in in Jordon and currently co-directs excavations on the island of Cyprus. Before joining La Trobe University in 2012, Steve was Professor of Archaeology at Arizona State University.

Komentáře • 27

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 Před 7 lety +54

    The Internet is truly a gift for worldwide learning. I am a retired grandfather living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. This lecture, and countless others, would never have been available for my enjoyment without our digital connection. Thank you for posting this fascinating lecture. Learning is a lifetime occupation.

    • @latrobeuniversity
      @latrobeuniversity  Před 7 lety +6

      Hi Brian, we are so glad you are enjoying our online lectures and we agree that learning is a lifetime occupation. Thanks for sharing your thoughts :)

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b Před 7 lety +2

      So true. The internet has become the means of transmission of knowledge that people hoped for from the radio and television. As it turned out, we had to wait for random access media on demand to achieve it.

    • @jomen112
      @jomen112 Před 7 lety +1

      Heard about public libraries? :) Imo internet has in a sense worsen knowledge with people, since people tend to accept that which already confirm to what they already believe.

    • @briangarrow448
      @briangarrow448 Před 7 lety +11

      jomen112 I happen to agree with you that public libraries are also a wonderful resource. And I use them on a regular basis. Unfortunately, they don't carry video copies of lectures that I have searched for. There is a limited budget for materials purchased in any library system and my esoteric requests are not really a priority. (And I understand why!) In fact, my old hometown had a beautiful Carnegie library that was fully restored back in the 90's. Gorgeous artwork, Arts and Crafts style furniture, a reading area with a fireplace. A wonderful piece of community pride that will hopefully serve another 100 years.

  • @briananderson2219
    @briananderson2219 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you so much for edifying this period of time. To the rare few who care your area of study is so important and essential to the future. Thank you so much for your your years of hard work that have resulted in our peoples heritage, knowledge, metallurgy, agriculture

  • @skellingtonmeteoryballoon

    Good job to the collaboration

  • @MarkProjMgr
    @MarkProjMgr Před 2 lety +2

    This is an excellent presentation

  • @terrayjos
    @terrayjos Před 5 lety +10

    Why do the makers of these videos think it so important to watch the speaker speak instead of spending more time on what the speaker is presenting!!!. It is so annoying to be looking at a slide and in seconds it's gone without a chance to really see what is important. What is worst is when the speaker is pointing out something on the slider but we can only stare at the speaker.
    Other that the above complaint I really do appreciate these lectures. Video makers...just put yourself in our position and learn what is important to the viewer.

    • @Nikanoru
      @Nikanoru Před 4 lety

      I'm just happy she doesn't speak in some unintelligible cockney like some of the others

    • @SarahAndrews24
      @SarahAndrews24 Před 4 lety +3

      Yes that's what exactly my problem too with these presentations and documentaries where the focus is on the presenter and not on the content where viewers would want to see more of the slides.

    • @Scepticalasfuk
      @Scepticalasfuk Před rokem

      You can always use the pause button.

  • @briananderson2219
    @briananderson2219 Před 3 lety +2

    This dude is boss!

  • @Paul-vk3gh
    @Paul-vk3gh Před rokem

    Rob Lowes cousin sure knows his stuff

  • @alanguy58
    @alanguy58 Před 5 lety +6

    Why, oh why, oh why can’t the people who provide these lectures, that THEY KNOW ARE BEING RECORDED FOR VIEWING ON DIGITAL MEDIA, provide the lecturers with a laser pointer that can ACTUALLY BE "SEEN" ON DIGITAL MEDIA AT THE RESOLUTION THEY INTEND TO UPLOAD? For the love of God, it’s 2019 people.

    • @bcast9978
      @bcast9978 Před 5 lety

      This was uploaded 6 years ago.

    • @alanguy58
      @alanguy58 Před 5 lety +4

      Brandon That was hardly the 1900s.

    • @bcast9978
      @bcast9978 Před 5 lety +1

      Do you know anything about technology? Especially thr price difference. Are you one of those kids born with an iPhone by your mum's teat?

    • @alanguy58
      @alanguy58 Před 5 lety +1

      lol ... I’m 71. And you sir, were obviously bottle-fed. You should be over that anger by now though. At any rate, feck off.

    • @bcast9978
      @bcast9978 Před 5 lety +2

      @@alanguy58
      I don't know anger. You should stop projecting. You just have no grasp on production or technology. Funny how you insult this institution allowing you to watch this lecture for free, but get upset over a comment directed to you.

  • @tomjmdalton8855
    @tomjmdalton8855 Před 27 dny

    how come old hebrew had only 8k unique words and modern day hebrew only has 80k unique words. arabic has 12 million unique words.

  • @jackangel4502
    @jackangel4502 Před rokem

    He said "three-way"!!!

  • @Itsatz0
    @Itsatz0 Před 5 lety

    I always knew this area of the world would turn out to be a human cesspit. Centuries of decapitated dead.

  • @scottjosen2606
    @scottjosen2606 Před 2 lety +2

    Stopped watching with woke opening..... shame really.