Unit 8, Referring academic discourse

Exercise 1:

1. J. Kelder points out that our current understanding of the political

geography of Greece during the Mycenaean period is based on assumptions

rather than facts.

2. Locker’s doctoral research highlights the link between the landscape

and the pilgrim in Medieval Britain.

3. As Grenfell argued, papyri tended to run in layers rather than to

be scattered through several feet of rubbish.

4. Cleland clearly implies that there is a growing divide between

western Africa and the rest of the region.

5. Cox claims that even with all the bones that have already been

discovered, many are still missing and reconstructing the ones they do have

will be a lot like a jigsaw puzzle.

6. Historian J. B. Bury believes thought in ancient Greece was

dominated by the theory of world-cycles, or the doctrine of eternal return.

7. After years of metal detecting and bulldozing of ancient sites in the

Balkans, ACE has concluded that it is becoming more difficult to obtain

bulk lots of coins.

8. Shyllon (1999) has rightly noted that the sanctions and

protective measures enshrined in the Antiquities Protection Act are

hopelessly inadequate.

Exercise 2:

A.: “My research has revealed that shells used for bead making were mostly of

Mediterranean origin.”

B.: “I did not state in my paper that slaves were entirely absent from rural societies

in Egypt.”

C.: “The Assyrians were proven to be a highly developed society.”

D.: “I believe NN’s position on the presence of millet in the population’s diet”.
E.: “During the excavation of Trench V in Area 5 I revealed a pit filled with pottery

production refuse”.

F.: “I highly doubt that monks at Naqlun consumed substantial amounts of wine.”

G.: “One should consider the diffusion between the patterns of Aswan finewares and the

contemporary trade network.”

H.: “A link is suggested to exist between the coin hoards and slave trade routes.”

I.: “NN’s work is to blame for much of the confusion concerning the dating of the

tomb.”

J.: “His consistency in his research methods is to be criticized”.

Unit 9: Paraphrasing and summarizing

The author begins by stating that the Berenike inscriptions are revealing about a lot of law
enforcement units were responsible for installations in the Eastern Desert, though we are
not sure about the detailed information regarding this matter. The passage goes on and
alludes to a specific way of raising a Roman army camp, as well as a certain way of managing
in and out of it. Though there was a standard structure style, examples like the forts in Vetus
Hydreuma and al-Kanaïs show that there could be variations too. The survey refers to
Roman and Ptolemaic examples of forts, with a number of them either destroyed or yet to
be found. Then, it passes on that even the remaining ones are not complete, since they had
been eroded by water and wind and hence, they do not hold their true dimensions. The
passage concludes by presenting the different roles of praesidia, which except guarding and
monitoring the local area and people, also worked as defenses against potential threats that
could appear from time to time.