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"Michael Ashkin works across a range of media--painting, photography, sculpture, video, and text. Uniting these diverse practices is a conceptual focus on the way that notions of space and place, landscape and self, are shaped by wider political and economic forces. "Were it not for" is combining a 670-line text with 218 photographs of the Mojave Desert. This combination creates a powerful sense of unease throughout the document, which is exploring the idea of fear and haunting as an effect of the violent legacies contained within the landscape, and as a function of the technologies that we use to represent it"--

Landscape photography --- Ashkin, Michael. --- Mojave Desert

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Egypt under the Romans (30 BCE-3rd century CE) was a period when local deserts experienced an unprecedented flurry of activity. In the Eastern Desert, a marked increase in desert traffic came from imperial prospecting/quarrying activities and caravans transporting wares to and from the Red Sea ports. In the Western Desert, resilient camels slowly became primary beasts of burden in desert travel, enabling caravaneers to lengthen daily marching distances across previously inhospitable dunes. Desert road archaeology has used satellite imaging, landscape studies and network analysis to plot desert trail networks with greater accuracy; however, it is often difficult to date roadside installations and thus assess how these networks evolved in scope and density in reaction to climatic, social and technological change. 0Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt examines evidence for desert roads in Roman Egypt and assesses Roman influence on the road density in two select desert areas: the central and southern section of the Eastern Desert and the central Marmarican Plateau and discusses geographical and social factors influencing road use in the period, demonstrating that Roman overseers of these lands adapted remarkably well to local desert conditions, improving roads and developing the trail network. Crucially, the author reconceptualises desert trails as linear corridor structures that follow expedient routes in the desert landscape, passing through at least two functional nodes attracting human traffic, be those water sources, farmlands, mines/quarries, trade hubs, military installations or actual settlements.

Roads, Roman. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Eastern Desert (Egypt) --- Egypt --- Antiquities, Roman.

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Arachnida --- Commensalism --- Harvester ants --- Myrmecicultor chihuahuensis --- Myrmecicultoridae --- Spiders --- Classification --- Big Bend Region --- Chihuahuan Desert --- Mexico --- Texas

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The fourth volume in the Amheida series, ''Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert' presents the systematic record and interpretation of the archaeological evidence from the excavations at 'Ain el-Gedida, a fourth-century rural settlement in Egypt's Dakleh Oasis uniquely important for the study of early Egyptian Christianity and previously known only from written sources.0Nicola Aravecchia (Washington University), the Deputy Field Director of NYU's Amheida Excavations, offers a history of the site and its excavations, followed by an integrated topographical and archaeological interpretation of the site and its significance for the history of Christianity in Egypt. In the second half of the volume a team of international experts presents catalogs and interpretations of the archaeological finds, including ceramics (Delphine Dixneuf, CRNS), coins (David M. Ratzan, NYU), ostraca and graffiti (Roger S. Bagnall, NYU and Dorota Dzierzbicka, University of Warsaw), small finds (Dorota Dzierzbicka, University of Warsaw), and zooarcheological remains (Pamela J. Crabtree, NYU and Douglas Campana).

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Western Desert (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Dakhla Oasis (Egypt) --- Architecture, Early Christian

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Der vorliegende Band enthält Studien von Ranon Katzoff zu Juden in der römischen Welt der Antike. Sie haben gemein, dass sie sich mit Juden in Schwellensituationen befassen, also in Konfrontation mit nicht-jüdischen, hauptsächlich römischen, Gesetzen, Orten, Regierungen und Denkweisen. In diesen Studien, in welcher griechische, lateinische und rabbinische Texte (alle in Übersetzungen) einander erklären, werden Juden als eher loyal ihren jüdischen Traditionen gegenüber dargestellt – eine sehr kontroverse Schlussfolgerung.

Jews --- History --- Jewish Law --- Roman Law --- Jewish Liturgy --- Judaean Desert --- Babatha --- Ancient Rome --- Antike --- Alte Geschichte --- Römisches Recht