Fig. 1 Ba’al stela from Ugarit-Ras Shamra, H. 142 cm, c. 18th-15th c. BCE, Musee du Louvre, AO 15775 That Hannibal was a great strategist, unpredictable himself yet often able to predict his enemies’ actions, has been long appreciated. This is usually all one needs to know as an answer to why Hannibal crossed the…
Author: Patrick Hunt
Hannibal or Hasdrubal?: Some Numismatic and Chronometric Considerations for Alpine Archaeology
Figs 1 & 2 Carthaginian shekels (probably silver), said to represent Hannibal, c. 220 BC, and Hasdrubal, c. 209 BC, (both as Herakles-Melqart?) respectively What kind of archaeological evidence could distinguish two very similar events only a little more than a decade apart? Of all the possible absolute or relative chronometers an archaeologist might use,…
Alpine Archaeology: Hannibal Expedition – Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2006 Field Report
Fig. 1 Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 2006 Team (Dr. Patrick Hunt, Director & photographer) Team: front row: Gina Farias-Eisner, Brian Head, Ed Boenig, Katie Goldhan, second row: Beatrice Hunt, Jessi Humphries, back row: Andreea Seicean, Jessica Bradley, Sarah Concklin, Scotti Shafer, Brian Knowles, Nancy El-Sakkhary, Rhianon Liu, Casey Carroll, Dave Beall In August 2006 the…
Alpine Roman Roads: Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project
Fig. 1 Grand-St-Bernard Pass: Roman rock-cut road (Survey crew: Brian Daniels, Mike Smith and E. Wang) Fig. 1 & Fig 2 Grand St. Bernard Pass, Plan de Jupiter: Roman rock cut road, summit (Italy, 8200′, 2460 m) In 1994 the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project began research to examine Alpine Roman Roads in the Grand-St-Bernard pass…
Hannibal in the Alps: Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project 1994-2006
Figs. 1 & 2 Hannibal Crossing the Alps; Stanford Alpine Archaeology Team 2004 (Patrick Hunt – project director- at back center in orange) One of the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project’s most interesting ongoing research foci is Hannibal in the Alps. Hannibal’s famous passage through the Alps in 218 BCE remains one of the most intrepid…
Alpine Archaeology: Soil Chemistry Theory and pH Testing
Fig. 1 Soil Range of typical pH values with local Alpine juniper and mountain azalea preferences in local geosols (plant habitat can be a good indicator of soil pH) Fig. 2 Juniperus communis alpina Fig. 3 Rhododendron ferrugineum ssp. Fig. 4 Patrick Hunt at Grand-St-Bernard Pass in alpine Roman road excavation during 1997, initial phase…