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The Eye and Eye Diseases from the Perspective of Ancient Babylonian and Biblical Sources: A Study of Selected Texts

Acta Medica Martiniana
Until the late 19th century, the sources of the Hebrew Bible as well as the writings of classical Greco-Roman authors, provided the only information about the history of ancient Mesopotamia, Canaan, and other civilizations of the ancient Near East. It is
Anna Barnau
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Carbon stable isotope analysis of cereal remains as a way to reconstruct water availability: preliminary results [PDF]

, 2011
Reconstructing past water availability, both as rainfall and irrigation, is important to answer questions about the way society reacts to climate and its changes and the role of irrigation in the development of social complexity.
AM Rosen, B Finlayson, BD Marino, C Grigson, C Körner, C Körner, C Migowski, DH Price, DW McCreery, E Galili, E Jenkins, E Kaptijn, E Peltenburg, Emma Jenkins, F Braemer, FB Salisbury, G Fiorentino, G Fiorentino, G Jones, G Palumbo, G Philip, G Rollefson, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GK Gillmore, GR Stewart, Gundula Müldner, H Helbaek, H Weiss, HR Stokes, I Kuijt, J Codron, J Doorenbos, J Hoefs, J Mabry, J Mabry, J Sealy, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JN Postgate, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Oleson, JR Ehleringer, JW Laundré, K Bastert, K Prag, KT Hubick, KW Butzer, L Cabrera-Bosquet, LT Tieszen, M Aguilera, M Charles, M Davies, M Harrower, M Madella, M Staubwasser, MH O’Leary, MW Ertsen, N Roberts, NK Fageria, P Monneveux, P Wright, Pascal Flohr, PB deMenocal, PG Whitehead, PMMG Akkermans, R Matthews, R Shaheen, RB Austin, RC Hunt, RS Wenke, RTJ Cappers, S Fujii, S Fujii, S Helms, S Mithen, S Riehl, S Riehl, SJ Bourke, SW Helms, TE Dawson, TE Levy, THE Heaton, THE Heaton, TW Boutton, TW Boutton, U Bellwald, VL Scarborough, Y Garfinkel   +97 more
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Tell Brak y Hamoukar: urbanismo en el norte de Mesopotamia en la primera mitad del IV milenio a.C. = Tell Brak and Hamoukar: Urbanism in the north of Mesopotamia in the first half of the 4th millennium b.C.

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2015
Las excavaciones arqueológicas de los últimos años en la alta Mesopotamia han revelado la existencia de importantes centros urbanos que remontan sus orígenes al V milenio a.C. en el contexto de la cultura Ubaid.
Antonio Pérez Largacha
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Gatekeepers and lock masters: the control of access in the Neo-Assyrian palaces [PDF]

, 2010
Book description: This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope
Radner, K
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Sedimentary records of palaeohydrological variability during the Late Holocene in the Lower Narmada Basin, western India

The Depositional Record, Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2026.
Late Holocene palaeohydrological changes in the lower Narmada Basin, India, revealed using multiproxy analyses of the Orsang River terrace sediments. Distinct depositional phases corresponding to global climatic events were recorded. High‐magnitude floods in the Narmada River during the MWP, and within the tributary Orsang River during DACP and LIA ...
Alpa Sridhar, Pooja Tiwari, Biswajit Thakur, Deependra Singh, Vineet Goswami, Sanjit Kumar Jena, Ravi Bhushan, Saremulhaq Parwej Mosarraf Shaikh, Deepak Maurya, Laxman Singh Chamyal   +9 more
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Riding the monsoon: Geography and Iron Age trade in the Indian Ocean

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 312-341, February 2026.
Abstract This paper exploits ancient textual sources to develop a database of ancient trade in the Indian Ocean and model trade in the region during the Iron Age. Wind‐speed data are used to construct a gravity model of trade and are combined with detailed textual data from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea to analyse historical development trends in ...
Conrad Copeland
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States and Social Complexity: The Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilisation [PDF]

, 2012
This article explores 'statehood' and argues Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilisation was not a state like contemporary Sumer and Egypt were, despite being equally complex - hence calling for revision of the unilineal anthropological model culminating in the
Riisfeldt, Thomas David
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Constructing a concept of number [PDF]

, 2018
Numbers are concepts whose content, structure, and organization are influenced by the material forms used to represent and manipulate them. Indeed, as argued here, it is the inclusion of multiple forms (distributed objects, fingers, single- and two ...
Overmann, Karenleigh
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Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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