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Pleiades gazetteerLast Week in Pleiades (14-21 April 2025) Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 22 new and 173 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel McKee, John Muccigrosso, R. Scott Smith and Richard Talbert. A full list of changes and additions, including change summaries, short descriptions, links to the corresponding gazetteer entries, and an overview map may be viewed on the blog at <a href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-14-21-april-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-14-21-april-2025</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/ancientgeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/gazetteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gazetteers</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/ancienthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientHistory</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a>

Tom ElliottTFW you come to the conclusion that you need an expert on ancient Armenian physical geography and toponymy.<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a>

Tom ElliottWatching the name "Lyncus" (Lynkos) slide around in press reports riffing on the press release about recent excavations at the "Gradishte" site near modern Crnobuki in North Macedonia.This name of a region is morphing through careless language into a possible name of the ancient settlement (no!). And then there's all the breathless AtG hype ... it's kinda nauseating.In the Pleiades gazetteer:Ancient site at modern Crnobuki: <a href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/965485210" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/965485210</a>Ancient region of Lynkos: <a href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/481903" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/481903</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientHistory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a>

Tom ElliottA colleague has just alerted me to an "ARIT lecture on the new data re the Thera eruption tomorrow April 16 at noon EST: 'The Late Bronze Age Thera Eruption! New Perspectives from Çeşme – Bağlararası in Western Anatolia'. An online lecture with Dr. Vasıf Şahoğlu, Department of Archaeology and Ankara University Mustafa V. Koç Research Center for Maritime Archaeology (ANKÜSAM) 16 April 2025, 7 pm Turkey - noon EDT To join online please register: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0Yur7TahTiWZRyOQJ1PnZQ#/registration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0Yur7TahTiWZRyOQJ1PnZQ#/registration</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/bronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bronzeAge</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Thera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thera</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Minoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Minoans</a>

Tom ElliottI see that "Connections and Divisions: Landscape Features of the Ancient World", the 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference in Classics at CUNY has been announced:Friday 2 May 2025 9am - 6pm US Eastern Time In-person & via ZoomRegister via the conference website: <a href="https://gscclassics.commons.gc.cuny.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gscclassics.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a>Keynote by Dr. Prudence Jones (Montclair): "Fluid Borders: Rivers, Exile and Migration"<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classics</a>

Tom ElliottI see that Hélène Roelens-Flouneau has a review of the revised Atlas of classical history out in BMCR:Hélène Roelens-Flouneau. “Review of: Atlas of Classical History.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Accessed April 9, 2025. <a href="https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.04.11/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.04.11/</a>."In sum, it can be reasonably asserted that the revised edition of this atlas will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for both researchers and students for at least the next twenty years."Shout-outs for the original editions and translations, the Barrington Atlas, for the CAWM map tiles, and for the Pleiades gazetteer (even if it undersells the latter quite a lot). <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classics</a>

Tom ElliottI've just had an email from Richard Talbert saying that yesterday his study “The Kieperts’ Asia Minor Ancient and Ottoman: Capstones of Route-Based Cartography” was published as a Supplementary Volume of the journal History of Classical Scholarship (accessible free): <a href="https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/SV10" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/SV10</a>It's the third and final component of a triad.  The other two components are a 2022 article in the same journal (<a href="https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/79" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/79</a>) and a virtual exhibition (2022-23; <a href="https://arcg.is/PTCOm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arcg.is/PTCOm</a>).<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a>

Tom ElliottI just had an email from Gabe Moss at the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill alerting me to "the release of Livy Study Maps: Book 22, the latest addition to the Maps for Texts series."More here: <a href="https://awmc.unc.edu/2025/03/20/livy-study-maps-book-22/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://awmc.unc.edu/2025/03/20/livy-study-maps-book-22/</a>"... this set of twenty-three maps is designed for students and teachers working with Livy’s text, and offers detailed coverage of famous episodes such as the Battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae, as well as of lesser-known campaigns from Book 22 of the History of Rome. The maps are available as free digital downloads under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license."<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Livy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Livy</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientHistory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientRome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientRome</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/cartography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cartography</a>

Pleiades gazetteerNew map application from the Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC Chapel Hill: The Geography of Pliny the Elder "The Geography of Pliny the Elder compiles and maps the geographic data in Pliny's Natural History. The database, available for download from the ISAW website, includes some 6,500 unique entries, and this application maps all those entries that are locatable. Users can click on a feature or use the search function to find citations in Pliny and a link to a feature's associated Pleiades entry, where further data, much of it beyond the scope of Pliny, can be found." <a href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/new-from-awmc-the-geography-of-pliny-the-elder" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/new-from-awmc-the-geography-of-pliny-the-elder</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/ancientgeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classics</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/ancienthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientHistory</a>

Tom ElliottVia the bsky account for Bob Consoli's Mycenean Atlas Project, we learn that he's just released an update:"2 BA sites Deleted 6 Lat/Lon Changes 6 Accuracy Adjustments 6 Sites Modified 8 Bibliographic Sources Added 34 New BA Sites Added 106 New (modern) FeaturesThe updates in today's database release mostly focus on the area around Vrokastro in Crete (Ierapetra). This is (mostly) based on the surveys of Barbara Hayden and L. Vance Watrous."Original post: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mycenaeanatlas.bsky.social/post/3ljlgzrbyqc2c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/mycenaeanatlas.bsky.social/post/3ljlgzrbyqc2c</a>Access to the MycAtl: <a href="https://www.helladic.info/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.helladic.info/</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BronzeAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BronzeAge</a>

Tom ElliottNew on the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ISAWNYU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ISAWNYU</a> news blog: Mi Wang, ISAW PhD Student, has received a Humboldt Fellowship for a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at LMU in Munich <a href="https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/mi-wang-humboldt-fellowship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/mi-wang-humboldt-fellowship</a>"Beginning this summer with a four-month German language course, Mi will spend 24 months at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München working with Prof. Dr. Armin Selbitschka. Their research project, "Resource Management and Human-Environment Interactions in Early China," investigates the complex dynamics between human societies and their environments in early China. By integrating archaeological, geological, ethnographic, and experimental methods, the project aims to provide new insights into the contextual strategies past societies used to navigate natural landscapes."<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientHistory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientChina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientChina</a>

Pleiades gazetteerLast Week in Pleiades (24 February - 3 March 2025) Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 44 new and 136 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Matthew Clark, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Nicolas Souchon and Néhémie Strupler. A complete list of additions and changes, include general descriptions of places, change summaries, credit lines, and links to the actual gazetteer entries may be read on the blog at <a href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-24-february-3-march-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-24-february-3-march-2025</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/ancientgeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/ancienthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientHistory</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/gazetteers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gazetteers</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/hgis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HGIS</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/lawdi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LAWDI</a> <a href="https://botsinbox.net/tags/lod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LOD</a>

Tom ElliottOver in bsky, Sarah E. Bond has a (public) thread about ancient <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/lighthouses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lighthouses</a>, including some links to the Pleiades gazetteer:<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/sarahebond.bsky.social/post/3ljhwm2pfls2p" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/sarahebond.bsky.social/post/3ljhwm2pfls2p</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a>

Tom ElliottAn accessible piece in the Conversation (republished on phys.org) that relabels visibility analysis with LiDAR data and ESRI ArcMap as "geophysical data science tools" in service of archaeology:<a href="https://theconversation.com/ancient-stone-walls-and-power-what-data-science-tools-can-reveal-in-african-archaeology-248603" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/ancient-stone-walls-and-power-what-data-science-tools-can-reveal-in-african-archaeology-248603</a>h/t <a href="https://techhub.social/@GregCocks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GregCocks</a> who links to the scientific papers in his post at <a href="https://techhub.social/@GregCocks/114072381174032108" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techhub.social/@GregCocks/114072381174032108</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archaeology</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HGIS</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ancientGeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancientGeography</a>

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