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Veitstu hvé blóta skal? The Old Norse blót in the Light of Osteological Remains from Frösö Church, Jämtland, Sweden

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2010
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]

open access: yesJournal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2022
(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

open access: yesHistory and Theory, 2019
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stone age transitions. Neolithisation in central Scandinavia

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2003
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

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2023
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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“Then So Did the General’s Lady with Great Magnificence”: the Role of Noble Women in Byzantine Provincial Military Family

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
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

open access: yesJournal of Interdisciplinary History, 2019
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History

open access: yes, 2019
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ancient Admixture in Human History

open access: yesGenetics, 2012
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Former land use affects the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and biomass of forest herbs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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 ...
Baeten, Lander   +6 more
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