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The osteological remains from Frösö Church, Jämtland, have been re-analysed in order to understand the Viking Age rituals at the site and to study the blót, the Old Norse sacrifice and feast.
Ola Magnell, Elisabeth Iregren
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"الإرث عند العرب قبل الإسلام دراسة في التاريخ الاجتماعي" Heritage in Arab Regions before Islam -Study of Social History [PDF]
(AR) تًمثل دراسات التاريخ الاجتماعي ومنها موضوع الدراسة (الإرث عند العرب قبل الإسلام)، جانباً مهماً من حياة الأمم والشعوب؛ ونظراً لاختلاف طريقة كسب العرب (البدو – الحضر) للأموال، اختلف نظام الإرث بينهم، بالرغم من اتفاقهم على توزيع الإرث وفق الأعراف ...
Abdullah bin Awaid Al-Otaibi
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HOW NINETEENTH‐CENTURY GERMAN CLASSICISTS WROTE THE JEWS OUT OF ANCIENT HISTORY
This essay considers why Jewish antiquity largely fell outside the purview of ancient historians in the Germanies for over half a century, between 1820 and 1880, and examines the nature of those portraits that did, in fact, arise.
P. Kurtz
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Stone age transitions. Neolithisation in central Scandinavia
A summary of a series of individual research projects focused on the processes from the Mesolithic to the Late Neolithic in central Scandinavia. The projects were embeded in the "Coast to Coast project". The historicity in this process was emphasised.
Helena Knutsson, Kjel Knutsson
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Bankers and Usurers in the Early Byzantine Hagiographical Texts
The text discusses accounts from early Byzantine hagiographical texts depicting the activities of bankers and usurers in the period from the early 5th to the second decade of the 7th century.
Ireneusz Milewski
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The article is devoted to the role of women in the families of the Byzantine provincial military nobility, in the middle of 9th – middle of 11th century. This issue remains poorly understood in historiography, and it is surely very urgent in light of the
Anton S. Mokhov, Karina R. Kapsalykova
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Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History
The subjective interpretation of probability—increasingly influential in other fields—makes probability a useful tool of historical analysis. It provides a framework that can accommodate the significant epistemic uncertainty involved in estimating ...
Myles Lavan
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Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History
List of figures Preface to the second edition Preface to the first edition Plates Introduction: history and papyri 1 The culture of papyrus 2 Ancient and modern choices in documentation Languages and scripts Who wrote what Survival of papyri Restoring ...
R. Bagnall
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Ancient Admixture in Human History
Population mixture is an important process in biology. We present a suite of methods for learning about population mixtures, implemented in a software package called ADMIXTOOLS, that support formal tests for whether mixture occurred and make it possible ...
N. Patterson+8 more
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Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs [PDF]
The colonization rates of understorey plants into forests growing on former agricultural land differ remarkably among species. Different dispersal and recruitment largely account for the contrasting colonization rates, but different effects of the soil ...
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