The Lasting Legacies of Mesopotamia: Ideas, Monuments, Images
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2021
- Many of the fundamental cultural features of modern western societies have their origins in the civilizations of Mesopotamia, which flourished from 3000 to 323 BCE in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, now modern Iraq. This exploration will highlight aspects of this lasting legacy, with special reference to the collections on display in the Middle East Galleries.
Holly Pittman, Ph.D., Curator in the Near East Section and Bok Family Professor in the Humanities, Penn History of Art, has excavated in Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. She has had primary publication responsibilities of the art, especially the glyptic art, from the sites of Malyan in the Fars province of Iran, Uruk-period Tell Brak, and Uruk-period Hacienbi Tepe. She co-curated the Museum’s Middle East Galleries as well as the traveling exhibition of the Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. Her current research interests revolve around the excavations of the sites of Konar Sandal South and North in the region of Jiroft, in south-central Iran. Dr. Pittman has participated in two seasons of excavation of these two mounds and the exploration and survey of the region.
Its astonishing how fast sience evolves…the circlyes where not buried but the rubbel from above buried them in time
I wish the sound was better, other than that I really enjoyed this lecture/video.
The subject is fascinating. However, the sound is poor and Dr. Pittman seems to be reading a manuscript rather than presenting her ideas. That takes away quite a bit from what otherwise is a highly informational talk. I expect better from a major educational institution.
Lectures shouldn’t just be reading dense PowerPoint slides which are off screen
Don't forget mother India?
Every youtuber or streamer has way superior microphone than worlds leading intelectuals, funny.
new penn museum logo is awful
Some academics are very good at communicating their knowledge, Penn's Simon Martin is getting better and better...unfortunately this lecture is a bit wooden and monotone, in my opinion, detracting from the content - some of which was very interesting. It's a shame academics don't get more experience at speaking and eliciting interest from an audience - zoom lectures are no replacement for speaking to real people.
You could like... read books. Then you could imagine whatever tone you want.
Poop on Brickhouse.
What you do is rewriting History in actual polititcs goals, this is not archeologia or science,
The Great Courses Plus offers the course “Ancient Mesopotamia”-24 lectures. You could learn, for free, in 30 days, all about the birth of civilization in the crescent valley. Starting from Natufian villages all the way to the end of the Neo-Babylonian empire.
Then you can compare & contrast what you learn there to what was presented here.
And you would be able to produce evidence & sound arguments about truth claims. I mean, if there’s something wrong here the world should know so everyone else can learn it, right?
I can't get past the eye-rollingly trite virtue signalling at the beginning of the lecture.
It made me sick and im ending the video!
That was astonishingly boring and I learned nothing. Pity