Afin d'améliorer la compréhension de la corrosion atmosphérique des bronzes, nous avons mis en oeuvre : - La caractérisation des composés d'étain, susceptibles d'être formés en corrosion atmosphérique, par une approche multi-analytique, la spectroscopie Mössbauer joue un rôle central (analyse sélective et quantitative). Les paramètres hyperfins et les facteurs Lamb-Mössbauer de plusieurs oxydes, sulfates et chlorures d'étain ont été déterminés. Les facteurs f sont dispersés et dépendants de température, montrant la nécessité de l'analyse à basse température. - Le développement d'un détecteur CEMS associant basse température et analyse non-destructive de surface : le dispositif a été mis en point entre 41 et 300 K. Les principaux paramètres affectant ses performances ont été étudiés et optimisés. - La réalisation d'une campagne d'exposition de 2 ans en site urbain de CuSn9, CuSn3Zn9, CuZn33 et leurs métaux purs. Les vitesses de corrosion ont été déterminées ainsi que les quantités de métaux entraînés par les eaux de pluie du fait de la solubilisation des produits de corrosion.

L'objet de cette thèse est d'analyser le rapport de l'île de Chypre avec les civilisations qui l'entouraient lors des bouleversements qui ont marqué la fin de l'Age du Bronze et le début de l'Age du fer en Méditerranée orientale. L'analyse porte sur les vestiges matériels, indépendamment des traditions orales et écrites.<br /> <br />La période Chypriote Récent III est définie par la céramique Proto White Painted (1175-1050B.C.) et la période Chypriote Fer I (1050-950) par la White Painted I. Tout le matériel Proto White Painted et White Painted I accessible dans les publications en 1982 est présenté dans le catalogue, avec leurs références de publication. J'ai pu aussi avoir accès au matériel non-publié de Skalès et de Kaloriziki. Le catalogue est divisé en trois catégories : céramique, architecture et tombes, objets autres que la céramique (bijoux, armes, objets domestiques, objets de culte). Ces donnés ont ensuite été comparées au matériel analogue du siècle précédent, retrouvé sur les sites égéens, syro-palestiniens, anatoliens, et égyptiens.<br /><br />Les résultats sont résumés dans dix tableaux, et leur distribution est indiquée sur quatre cartes. Ces tableaux et cartes devraient permettre la modification des hypothèses historiques au fur et mesure de la découverte de nouveaux vestiges. L'objectif recherché est une nouvelle approche vers l'interprétation du matériel CR III, autant qu'une nouvelle hypothèse concernant les événements qu'il reflète. Les résultats ont ensuite été confrontés aux traditions écrites qui témoignent de cette époque (notamment la guerre de Troie et les migrations des Peuples de la Mer).<br /><br />Les résultats présentés ici ne s'accordent pas avec l'idée d'une colonisation de Chypre par les Achéens telle qu'elle est rapportée par la tradition et généralement acceptée. Il suggère plutôt un déplacement des populations par voie de l'Anatolie, et surtout de la Syrie Palestine.

<p>This paper emphasizes the nature of trade relations in the EasternMediterranean in general and from a Levantine inland perspective inparticular. The ‘maritime’ trade relation of the ancient city of Hazor, located in the interior of LB Canaan is a case study investigating the Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery on the site. The influx of these vessels peaked during LB IIA. The distribution and types of this pottery at Hazorpoint to four interested groups that wanted it. These were the royal andreligious elites; the people in Area F; the religious functionaries of theLower City; and the craftsmen of Area C. The abundance of imports inArea F, among other evidence, indicates that this area might havecontained a trading quarter from where the imports were distributed toother interested groups.A model of ‘interregional interaction networks’, which is a modified world systems approach, is used to describe the organization of trade connections between the Levant, Cyprus and the Aegean and even beyond. The contents of the Ulu Burun and Cape Gelidonya ships, wrecked on the coast of south Turkey, show that luxury items were traded from afar through Canaan via the coastal cities overseas to the Aegean.Such long-distance trade with luxury goods requires professional traders familiar with the risks and security measures along the routes and with the knowledge of value systems and languages of diverse societies. These traders established networks along main trade routes and settled in trading quarters in particular node cities. The paper suggests that Hazor, as one of the largest cities in Canaan, located along the main trade routes, possessed such a node position. In this trade the Levantine coastal cities of Sarepta, Abu Hawam,Akko and possibly Tel Nami seem to have played important roles. These main ports of southern Syria and northern Palestine were all accessible to Hazor, although some of them in different periods of LB.</p>

This thesis deals with meetings between peoples during prehistoric times in the northern part of Norrland, Sweden. Particular attention is paid to the possible occurrence of more temporary meetings between people in larger groups at aggregation camps during the period ca 7000 – 0 BC. The study has had the aim of increasing our understanding of how peoples’ meetings and contact networks may have been framed. Thirteen sites that previous research has interpreted to be aggregation camps within our field of study have been analysed and interpreted. These are: Jokkmokk, Purkijaur, Nelkerim, Porsi, Lundfors, Norrfors, Överveda, Rappasundet, Hälla, Lillberget, Glösa, Sörånäset and Ställverksboplatsen (the Ställverket site). The Ställverket site at Näsåker (Nämforsen) has been the object of particular study. It has also been viewed in a broader context by analysis and interpretation of other ancient remains in the neighbouring area. I have argued that some interpretations arrived at in earlier research are problematical and that none of the thirteen sites can be said with certainty to have been an aggregation camp. Thus aggregation camps seem not usually to have been a part of the contact network in the area of study. Instead of using aggregation camps as meeting-places, the people involved seem, at certain times and places, to have maintained contact with each other by means of meetings at the base camps, notably the winter sites. These sites seem to have been rather sedentary and are positioned at fairly even distances from one another. I call this model the base camp model. Some grounds for applying the base camp model seem to exist at certain places in the inland region from the end of the Mesolithic era up to 0 BC. After that contact networks seem to change. In the coastal district it seems possible to apply it to some places from the transition between the Mesolithic – Neolithic Age up to about 2500 BC. Thereafter the picture is unclear. The study does also emphasise however that more in-depth studies are needed to strengthen the viability of the base camp model’s applicability, that there are still big gaps in the material and that much work still remains to be done in order to solve the problems of how aggregation camps can best be defined and how they can be identified archaeologically.

Transparent glasses embedded with TTB structured ferroelectric nano/micro crystals (K3Li2Nb5O15, Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30) were fabricated in various tellurite and borate based glass matrices and characterized for their physical properties. Nanocrystals of K3Li2Nb5O15 were successfully grown inside tellurite glass matrix via conventional heat-treatment route. Eventhough, tellurite glasses preferentially crystallize only on the surface, bulk uniform crystallization was achieved in the (100-x) TeO2 - x(1.5K2O-Li2O-2.5Nb2O5) system. Heat capacity studies revealed them to be thermodynamically less fragile than any other tellurite glasses ever reported in the literature. Pyroelectric and ferroelectric effects as well as second harmonic generation were demonstrated for the heat treated (glass nanocrystal composites) samples in this system. The conventional method of melt-quenching of constituent oxides could not yield Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30 crystallites. So, Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30 microcrystals were successfully formed in tellurite glass matrix by mixing pre-reacted Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30 ceramic powders with TeO2. The glass transition temperature was found to be the highest ever reported and this system was kinetically strong based on the fragility parameter. Dielectric studies revealed a frequency and temperature independent nature of the dielectric constant and very low dielectric loss. The SHG measurement which was carried out as a function of temperature demonstrated the incidence of blue second harmonic generation in the microcrystals present in the glass matrix. Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30 nanocrystals were successfully crystallized in the transparent glass system (100-x)Li2B4O7 – x(Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30). Dielectric constant increased while the dielectric loss decreased with the increase in Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30 content. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies were carried out to have an insight into the structure of this system. Transmission studies and refractive index measurements were performed and various optical parameters were calculated. Dielectric and transport properties were studied for the glasses and glass nano/microcrystal composites of all the systems reported in this thesis. Li+ ion was found to be responsible for conduction in all these systems. Evolution of self-organized nanopatterns of K3Li2Nb5O15 crystals has been demonstrated in the glass system (100-x) TeO2 - x(1.5K2O-Li2O-2.5Nb2O5) by excimer laser irradiation. The second harmonic signal observed by the Maker fringe technique has been attributed to the presence of well-aligned nano-sized grating structures in the glass system. Glasses belonging to the systems TeO2-K3Li2Nb5O15, TeO2-Ba5Li2Ti2Nb8O30 and V2Te2O9 undergo spinodal decomposition on exposing to KrF pulsed excimer laser. The spinodally phase separated structures were observed on all the surfaces of the samples. Ring shaped patterns were observed on several locations of the samples at higher frequency of laser pulses probably owing to the shock waves produced by the high intense laser beam. Line shaped patterns were found to originate on the sample surfaces when irradiated for longer periods.

This work attempts to seek new insights in understanding the archeological phenomena traditionally labelled as the western Bronze Age and the coastal Pre-Roman cultures of Finland (1500 BC-AD 1), by studying the phenomena from a socioeconomic interaction and practice oriented community perspective. The basic line of thought is that it was the everyday life of the local agents and their interactions that constituted the local communities. Communities are seen as built from the bottom up by the interaction of various local agents. The organised agents, their practices and their mutual interaction on various scales of social organisation are regarded as the central factors that created and shaped the history of the communities. Problems that are addressed concern the interrelationship between the subsistence practices, habitation practices and the social organisation of the coastal communities. Houses and local polities are regarded as two basic social institutions that were essential for the structuration of the coastal communities and for their relation to external networks. I also address the issue of the various spatial and temporal scales that can be considered as essential for the structuration of the coastal communities, and furthermore how the coastal communities managed change over time. The geographical scope of this thesis is limited to the former province of Vaasa (Vaasan lääni/Vasa län) in western Finland, with a special emphasis on the coastal southern part of Ostrobothnia.  A suggested high-rank House from the Late Bronze Age is studied in Laihia. Methodologically a broad perspective with a comparative, diachronic and a multi-proxy approach is conducted in the study of the structuration of communities. The constitution of the communities is largely approached through themes that are related to landscape and settlement archaeology. Contextual analyses of the combinations of various subsistence and habitation practices form the basis for the identification of different community constituting subgroups of agents.

Master Evil plans to rule the earth and set up his evil empire so that all may worship and adore him. However, six teenagers discover six crosses that have powers that will help them defeat the evil that will soon cross their path. Each cross possesses a quality of God that each of these teenagers must develop in order to stop Master Evil: faith, peace, salvation, truth, righteousness, and the Spirit. These six teenagers pose as a threat to Master Evil's plans, and he'll stop at nothing to defeat them and rule the world. It is the ultimate battle between good and evil. These six young people must have faith themselves and each other, but most importantly, they must have faith in God in order to defeat the ultimate evil.

Le IIIe millénaire au Proche-Orient voit l'essor d'une riche production d'objets ornés d'images. Cette production matérielle est propre à une période durant laquelle la société mute et crée des objets et des images susceptibles de suggérer et de véhiculer les principes mêmes qui la définissent. Elles mettent en scène des individus à travers la figuration de thèmes récurrents, principalement centrés sur la victoire militaire et les cérémonies sociales et religieuses. Une des formes de cette production visuelle est incarnée par les panneaux figuratifs, constitués de bois, incrustés de pièces en coquille marine et organisés en registres. Ces panneaux n'ont pas été préservés, et seules subsistent les incrustations. Le sujet de cette thèse porte sur les fragments d'incrustations retrouvés à Mari, datés du deuxième tiers du IIIe millénaire. À ce jour, Mari est la cité qui a fourni le plus grand nombre de fragments et sa production doit être envisagée comme faisant partie intégrante de la culture matérielle et visuelle du Proche-Orient à cette époque. Notre approche de ces objets s'articule autour de trois axes : une analyse matérielle des pièces et de leur contexte de découverte ; une analyse iconographique ; une analyse comparative de fragments d'incrustations retrouvés dans d'autres cités du Proche-Orient et datés de la même période. Cette étude nous a ainsi permis d'aborder la nature et la fonction de ces objets, ainsi que les modalités de représentation de cette époque et de ce type de support.

This paper emphasizes the nature of trade relations in the EasternMediterranean in general and from a Levantine inland perspective inparticular. The ‘maritime’ trade relation of the ancient city of Hazor, located in the interior of LB Canaan is a case study investigating the Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery on the site. The influx of these vessels peaked during LB IIA. The distribution and types of this pottery at Hazorpoint to four interested groups that wanted it. These were the royal andreligious elites; the people in Area F; the religious functionaries of theLower City; and the craftsmen of Area C. The abundance of imports inArea F, among other evidence, indicates that this area might havecontained a trading quarter from where the imports were distributed toother interested groups.A model of ‘interregional interaction networks’, which is a modified world systems approach, is used to describe the organization of trade connections between the Levant, Cyprus and the Aegean and even beyond. The contents of the Ulu Burun and Cape Gelidonya ships, wrecked on the coast of south Turkey, show that luxury items were traded from afar through Canaan via the coastal cities overseas to the Aegean.Such long-distance trade with luxury goods requires professional traders familiar with the risks and security measures along the routes and with the knowledge of value systems and languages of diverse societies. These traders established networks along main trade routes and settled in trading quarters in particular node cities. The paper suggests that Hazor, as one of the largest cities in Canaan, located along the main trade routes, possessed such a node position. In this trade the Levantine coastal cities of Sarepta, Abu Hawam,Akko and possibly Tel Nami seem to have played important roles. These main ports of southern Syria and northern Palestine were all accessible to Hazor, although some of them in different periods of LB.

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