2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Elite Interventions in Iron Age Levantine Urban Networks: Applying Settlement Scaling Theory to Monumentality
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22K20043
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-08-31 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | monument / monumentality / scaling theory / ancient Levant / ancient West Asia / Hebrew Bible |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
My chapter applying settlement scaling theory to Carchemish is nearing completion and will soon be published in the volume "Cities in West Asia and North Africa through the Ages, II: The Shapes and Functions of Cities in Ancient Mesopotamia and Its Surroundings." My study of monument reception 1 Kings 12 has been accepted for presentation at this year's annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in November, and it will be published as a journal article in a special issue of Avar later this year. My monograph dealing with monumentality and its reception in the ancient Levant was accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press and is nearing the end of its production process.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
My initial studies and their publications are progressing smoothly, but my plans for onsite work at Tel Dan have been somewhat delayed. The reason is that the excavation team is off site until 2024, so I will have to curtail that part of my project for the time being.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the next academic year, I will pursue the application of digital tools to this project. Now that my full budget has been disbursed, I can proceed to purchase the equipment necessary to run crowd simulations in the monumental spaces I am study and determine whether the results shed new light on my objects of inquiry. This will create the opportunity to publish additional studies built on those already accepted for publication during the previous academic year.
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| Causes of Carryover |
In my application, I requested funds for 2022 to purchase equipment to carry out the digital humanities work associated with my project. 300,000 yen was insufficient for those purchases, so I had to wait for the disbursement of the money for 2023 before I could commence that part of my project.
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Research Products
(4 results)
