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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 804-810, August 2026.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S22-S37, April 2026.Abstract Trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization is studied through the analysis of Early Dynastic III Period (2600–2350 BCE) carnelian beads from the site of Kish, Iraq. Morphological and technological features of the beads are compared with beads from the Indus region.
J. Mark Kenoyer +2 more
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Soldiers and Prisoners in Motion in Mesopotamian Iconography during the Early Bronze Age
ArtsMilitary images of the ancient Near East during the Early Bronze Age are characterized by one of their main features: the serial reproduction of soldiers and prisoners, side by side, the former clearly identifiable by the visual signs of power they bear ...
Barbara Couturaud
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 603-610, March 2026.‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 240-256, March 2026.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Drought significantly affects water resources, agriculture, energy, and ecosystems, revealing enduring socio‐economic vulnerabilities over the centuries. This review synthesizes a century of development and recent advances in drought research (1900–2023), drawing on a bibliometric analysis of over 152,000 peer‐reviewed publications. The review
Amitesh Sabut, Ashok Mishra
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Dissemination and price of cotton in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium BCE
Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019 The archaeological finds attest that cotton textiles appeared in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium B.C. The first attempt to cultivate this plant, according to the available written sources, was by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, and also dates back ...
Louise Quillien
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Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 24-38, November 2025.ABSTRACT This paper builds on previous attempts to estimate radiocarbon‐inferred population trends—although in Arabia, these attempts are few. A probabilistic reconstruction of Bronze Age (3200–1300 cal BC) demographic trends using a new data set of radiocarbon rates from across the Arabian Peninsula (n = 1280) is presented and a subset of dates (n ...
James R. P. McDonald
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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Beyond Amarna: exorcists without borders in the Levant
Diacrítica, 2023 The Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean formed a special sphere of activity for diverse specialists who navigated from one side to the other through extensive networks of interconnections in the Late Bronze Age.
Graciela Gestoso Singer
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