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Thinking Materially: Cognition as Extended and Enacted [PDF]
, 2017 Human cognition is extended and enacted. Drawing the boundaries of cognition to include the resources and attributes of the body and materiality allows an examination of how these components interact with the brain as a system, especially over cultural ...
Overmann, Karenleigh A.
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Andrology, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 641-650, March 2026.Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni +2 more
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Material Affective Engagements: Examples from Ancient Mesopotamia
Aestimatio: This article applies approaches from current emotion research on material affective scaffolds—objects made and used to enhance, and more generally transform, affective states—to the emerging field of study focusing on emotions in ancient Near Eastern ...
Ulrike Steinert, Giovanna Colombetti
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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 +9 more
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Ethno-cultural and Religious Identity of Syrian Orthodox Christians [PDF]
, 2009 Many Middle Eastern Christian groups identify or have been identified with preIslamic peoples in the Middle East: the Copts with Ancient Egypt, the Nestorians with Assyria, the Maronites with Phoenicians and some RumOrthodoxand other Christians with pre
Donabed, Sargon, Mako, Shamiran
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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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Reading Polanyi in Erbil: understanding socio-political factors in the development of IraqiKurdistan [PDF]
, 2018 The Kurdistan Regional Government emerges out of the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq as a rare positive, providing both political stability and economic growth.However, the outward display masks a more complex domestic settlement where the trappings of the ...
Smith, Robert
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An ancient relation between units of length and volume based on a sphere.
PLoS ONE, 2012 The modern metric system defines units of volume based on the cube. We propose that the ancient Egyptian system of measuring capacity employed a similar concept, but used the sphere instead.
Elena Zapassky +3 more
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Exploring geomagnetic variations in ancient mesopotamia: Archaeomagnetic study of inscribed bricks from the 3rd-1st millennia BCE. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Howland MD +5 more
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An archaeomagnetic study of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon.
PLoS ONEData from the marriage of paleomagnetism and archaeology (archaeomagnetism) are the backbone of attempts to create geomagnetic field models for ancient times. Paleointensity experimental design has been the focus of intensive efforts and the requirements
Anita Di Chiara +5 more
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