From: owner-ane@ (ANE Digest) To: ane-digest Subject: ANE Digest V1998 #142 Reply-To: Sender: owner-ane@ Errors-To: owner-ane@ Precedence: bulk ANE Digest Saturday, May 23 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 142 ane J. H. Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association awarded to A. Kuhrt ane Half-brackets, dots, hashing Mediterranean Climate Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:43:50 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: ane J. H. Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association awarded to A. Kuhrt A colleague passes along the following information xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The 1997 James Henry Breasted Prize of the American Historical Association is awarded to Amelie Kuhrt for her monumental history of The Ancient Near East, c. 3000-330 BC (2 Vols, Routledge History of the Ancient World, general editor Fergus Millar [Routledge: London and New York, 1995]). The enormous breadth and depth of Kuhrt's work, her ability to elucidate even the most confused periods and deftly to incorporate both source problems and scholarly disagreements in her text, and her lucid prose make this volume a pleasure to read. Her copious illustrations, both traditional visual images and translations of original ancient texts, and her extensive and up-to-date bibliography enhance the value of the book for student and scholar alike. With this volume, she has expanded the parameters of the field of World History. The Breasted Prize of $1,000 is offered for the best book in English in any field of history prior to 1000 A.D. The prize will rotate annually among (a) Near East and Egypt; (b) Far East and South Asia; (c) Africa, North America and Latin America; and (d) Europe. Only books of high scholarly and literary merit are considered. This citation and other information from the American Historical Association will be found on their Web site at: http://chnm.gmu.edu/aha/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:47:34 EDT From: ECOLING Subject: ane Half-brackets, dots, hashing Could any of you please help with any detailed information on the following? Who uses upper half-brackets? Assyriologists primarily? Other cuneiform scholars? Other domains (what languages or scripts, please)? Do these always indicate damaged text? Who use lower half-brackets? Details? Who use hashing of parts or wholes of characters? Are these used only with original scripts, Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Cuneiform? Other uses? (Ever used with transliteration?) Who use dots to indicate damaged text? Normally overdots? Predominant use is for Semitists? Used with original alphabets? (specify alphabet, please) Used with transliterations? (specify language, please, or original script which is being transliterated) Who use tall thin angled brackets (like < > but taller and thinner)? In what fields of scholarly work are these commonly used? (specify language or script, please) Are these always used to indicate the actual glyph or letter of an original script? Are they used in other ways? Are there other notational devices of the sorts mentioned above for damaged text which shouldbe considered in these same contexts? Thank you very much for any responses you can provide. If the responses seem to warrant it, I will post the results back to the list; or you can request a compilation of results to be sent to you privately if you want to be sure to get one. Best, Lloyd Anderson Ecological Linguistics ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:46:12 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: Mediterranean Climate Conference Jack Sasson forwarded this announcement of a conference. ============================================================= PAGES WORKSHOP Paleoclimate in the Mediterranean region: A contribution to the Afro-European Paleoclimatic Transect (PEP III) Milano, Italy, 22 June 1998 Immediately following the meeting in Italy of the Steering Committee of the IGBP PAGES project, a one day workshop will be held on Monday 22nd June 1998 in the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Milano, via Emanueli, 15. The objective of the workshop is to encourage and promote paleoclimatic research in Italy and the Mediterranean, coordinated within the framework of the PEP III transect. The workshop represents an opportunity for researchers from Italy and the Mediterranean interested in the PAGES objectives to meet fellow researchers already involved in the IGBP programs. The workshop will consist of invited papers and a poster session. The provisional program consists of presentations both from Italian and international speakers on the following topics: 1. Holocene climatic variability a. Historical records. b. High-resolution sequences c. Abrupt climatic events d. Climate and human civilisation 2. Last climatic cycles e. Lacustrine long sequences f. Mediterranean marine successions g. The east-west dimension h. Tephrochronology in the Mediterranean i. Pluriproxy data base and correlation j. Human impact on natural ecosystems For the poster session you are invited to present research focused on the PAGES objectives, with examples from Italy and the Mediterranean, and relating to the last 2000 years, the Holocene and the last climatic cycles. If you would like to participate please write to us before 10th June 1998, at: PAGES Workshop Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e del Territorio Via Emanueli, 15 20126 Milano Fax: +39-2-64474400 Email: pages@alpha.disat.unimi.it Please answer preferentially by email, remembering to include your complete address and affiliation. Those interested in presenting a poster are asked to send a short abstract by the 10th June 1998. The abstract should be in English, text only, with no figures and no bibliography. The maximum length of the abstract is one page of A4, either as a MS Word document or plain text. Formatting should be Times New Roman, 12 point, and single spacing, with the title capitalised, and include the names, full postal addresses and email addresses of the authors. Posters should be no larger than a width of 70cm and a height of 100 cm. The final program of the workshop will be sent by email to those who confirm participation, together with a list of hotels for anybody requiring accommodation. We should be grateful of you could pass on details of the workshop to those you think might also be interested in participating. Yours sincerely, Prof. Giuseppe Orombelli DISAT Universita' degli Studi di Milano Via Emanueli, 15 Milano 20126 Italy Dr P.R. Johnston DISAT Universita' degli Studi di Milano Via Emanueli, 15 Milano 20126 Italy peter@alpha.disat.unimi.it Tel: +39-2-64474415 Fax: +39-2-64474400 ------------------------------ End of ANE Digest V1998 #142 **************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html