Open research questions in Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
32 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,425 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
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In the case of Grave 46, the association with the burial remains uncertain, as three teeth were recov- ered from the surface of the cluster comprising the intersecting Graves 44 to 47 rather than from a clearly defined grave context.
The presentation will be limited to the geographical area of modern Epirus (prefectures of Arta, Ioannina, Preveza, and Thesprotia) and it will cover the period from the Early Iron Age (eighth century BC) to the beginning of the Roman conquest (second to early first century BC).
Puzzled by this conflicting evidence and inspired by the opening of the exhibition Audubon’s Aviary: Parts Unknown (Part II of The Complete Flock) at the New-York Historical Society in March 2014, a band of Audubon enthusiasts, including the two authors and Trinity Cemetery and Mausoleum historian Eric K.
In Quest of Audubon: Exploring Audubon’s Monument in Trinity Cemetery and Mausoleum to Rediscover Its History · 2015 · DOIThe 2008 season saw the first visit of the ground survey to the region between el-Khatatbah and Kafr Dawud, west of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, as well as further investigation into sites across the province and the continuation of the drill core survey.
Some remains, probably from the town of the Hellenistic tyrant Zoilos, which Alexander Jannaeus failed to conquer, were dated by the excavators to the Herodian period; but further study of the stratigraphical, typological, and circumstantial evidence may date them to an earlier period, that of the only known pre-Herodian settlement at this time-Straton's Tower.
Dunham's later chrono logys is largely a dynastic chronicle, and its cultural implications likewise remain to be substantiated. I 119 It remains to be determined whether there was in fact continuous Meroitic settle ment from Sennar to Karanog, or whether Lower Nubia was a detached and perhaps If, as historical evidence suggests. v It should be added that Griffith's proposed chronology for the Meroitic graves at Faras'? has not been verified by subsequent excavations, except in the case of the out and-out X-Group graves of his 'D' period. Negative evidence cannot be taken as conclusive in an area which is as poorly explored and in a time which is as poorly documented as is the case in Upper Nubia during the last millennium before Christ.
This suggests that the choice of rite was driven by the desire to bury this individual in a crypt when there was insufficient space to accommodate a coffin.
Cremation from Crypt no. 276 of the Phanagoria Necropolis (Toward the Issue of Bi-ritual Funerary Tradition of the Roman Time) · 2025 · DOIHowever, a comprehensive analysis of the association between roads and cemeteries in Early Roman–period Jerusalem is still lacking, despite extensive studies on burials in the area.
Despite carrying out a comprehensive survey for analogies and an analysis of production and use-related marks, we could not determine what the object could have been used for; it may be a semi-finished product, but it could also be a toy or amulet.
Unique accessories and connection network of a Gepid Period child burial. New data on the distribution of early medieval ivory artefacts · 2023 · DOIReferences are then limited to a few sporadic instances through the early medieval period before the new information provided by the cemetery at Ełegis is treated in detail (Chapter 3).
Michael E.Stone and AramTopchyan: Jews in Ancient and Medieval Armenia. First Century <scp>BCE</scp> to Fourteenth Century <scp>CE</scp>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022; pp. xv + 184. · 2023 · DOIThe burial belonged to a man about 30 years old and a teenager, whose gender has not been established.
A Warrior and a Warhorse among the Aestians: the first results of a study of the “equestrian” burial of Roman times at the Romanovo-Pugachevsky Prud cemetery · 2021 · DOIAll in all, the grave at Poprad shows indications of rites and ideas of the afterlife that are difficult to decipher because, in contrast to Roman burial rites, written sources are lacking in the Barbaricum of this period.
Despite rather scarce literature on Saint Benedict devotional items found at archaeological sites, one should expect that as research progresses, doubts about the manufacturing places or more detailed relationships between the appearance of crosses and medals will be dispelled.
The Saint Benedict Cross or the Saint Benedict Medal Based on a Find from Archaeological Research in Gniew (Pomerania Province) · 2020 · DOIFurther study of the human remains from MMA 508 may shed light on burial practices from the Middle Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period.
The bathing suites appear at Phoenician and Phoenician-influenced sites in Israel during the Persian and Hellenistic periods but are presently under-recognized.
The assemblage from the Lower Necropolis supplemented the little known ceramic repertoire from the Saqqara phase II (Pepi I–Merenre).
But the burial of this individual was left inside the tomb for reasons that remain unclear, though we speculate that those reasons were religious in nature.
Dolmen 317 and Its Hidden Burial: An Early Bronze Age I Megalithic Tomb from Jebel al-Mutawwaq (Jordan) · 2014 · DOIThe existence of the monastic church of Camina in Frankish Morea has long been noted by historians of Frankish Greece, but its history has never been thoroughly investigated and its location remains unknown.
Of burning monks, unidentified churches and the last Cistercian foundation in the East: Our Lady of Camina in the principality of Achaia · 2014 · DOIThough little is known about the origin of most of the items, the provenance of the two ostraca published here can be determined given remarkable parallels they share with some published texts from known locales.
This enterprise was planned after an earlier aqueduct failed to adequately supply Jerusalem's water needs because of hydrological limitations; also it was insufficiently defensible.
Although pagan sanctuaries have been the object of research for theclergy, politicians, and historians already since the 18th century, more general and analytical studies are still lacking.
This cemetery survey was combined with further research on the well-preserved foggara systems in this area, which originate at the escarpment among the cemeteries and run in a north-westerly direction towards the valley centre, where some additional Garamantian settlement sites were also located.
DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Taqallit Promontory · 2009 · DOIAccess to the area of inhabitation is limited to a long narrow "Entry Path" that leads to the southwest from the scree of Papoura of the Thriphti Mountains to nine bedrock ledges.
The limited information on the earliest graves, often consisting of only names and dates, is shown to already express a rupture with non‐Christians and the solidarity of the village community around a new set of values.
While detailed studies are still lacking, there was clearly a significant ‘Garamantian’ presence in many of the southern oases, with several sites in the Wadi an-Nashwa, a significant settlement at Ghuddwa and further cemeteries in the Dujal area and probably at Tsawah.
Most-cited papers in Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
- DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Taqallit Promontory · Libyan Studies · 2009 · 23 citations
- The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales · Antiquity · 2021 · 22 citations
- Dolmen 317 and Its Hidden Burial: An Early Bronze Age I Megalithic Tomb from Jebel al-Mutawwaq (Jordan) · Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research · 2014 · 16 citations
- The archaeology of the southern Fazzan and prospects for future research · Libyan Studies · 2001 · 13 citations
- The Why, How, and When of the Siloam Tunnel Reevaluated · Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research · 2010 · 9 citations
- An Early Scythian Barrow of Mamai-Gora Burial Ground in Lower Dnieper Region · Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology · 2022 · 7 citations
- The Sword of Korisios · Antiquity · 1956 · 6 citations
- NEW DATA OF FUNERAL CUSTOMS AND BURIALS OF BRONZE AGE REZNES CEMETERY IN LATVIA · Estonian Journal of Archaeology · 2021 · 6 citations
- The City Walls of Lachish: Response to Yosef Garfinkel, Michael Hasel, Martin Klingbeil and Their Colleagues · Palestine Exploration Quarterly · 2022 · 6 citations
- Excavations in the northern and eastern parts of the Byzantine town at Marea · Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean · 2020 · 5 citations
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