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Fertility control in ancient Rome. [PDF]
Womens Hist Rev, 2021 This paper surveys and evaluates the range of methods recommended mostly to promote but also to prevent pregnancy in ancient Rome, and then discusses the practices of adult adoption and infant exposure in more detail in order to interrogate the notion of 'fertility control' from an ancient historical perspective.
Flemming R.
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Digital Visualisation in Classics Teaching and Beyond [PDF]
The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2016 For the last few years, I have been working on an extensive digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in the early 4th Century AD. This sort of visualisation lends itself to many applications in diverse fields: I am currently using it for research ...
Matthew Nicholls
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Historijski pogledi, 2023 The institution of slavery was characteristic of all the civilizations from Mediterranean basin in ancient times. However, slavery had its widest application in the Roman state, for which it was of immense importance, since slaves were seen as the ...
Sead Bandžović
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Molecules, 2021 The present research investigates the relationship between dietary habits and mortality patterns in the Roman Imperial and Medieval periods. The reconstructions of population dynamics and subsistence strategies provide a fascinating source of information
Marica Baldoni +4 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Background Rome became the prosperous Capital of the Roman Empire through the political and military conquests of neighbouring areas. People were able to move Romeward modifying the Rome area’s demographic structure. However, the genomic evidence for the
Flavio De Angelis +7 more
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Remote Sensing, 2021 Over the last 50 years, countries across North Africa and the Middle East have seen a significant increase in dam construction which, notwithstanding their benefits, have endangered archaeological heritage.
Andrea Titolo
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Scientific Reports, 2021 This paper provides results from a suite of analyses made on human dental material from the Late Palaeolithic to Neolithic strata of the cave site of Grotta Continenza situated in the Fucino Basin of the Abruzzo region of central Italy.
Alessia Nava +13 more
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Storia delle Donne, 2020 Is there an ancient “ecological awareness” and is it conceivable to refer to it as a legacy that feeds contemporary efforts to innovate in environmental protection? Following an interdisciplinary approach, an innovative research project (ERA - Ecology of
Cecilia Pedrazza Gorlero
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Geomorphological classification of urban landscapes. The case study of Rome (Italy) [PDF]
, 2016 The results of a long-lasting geomorphological survey carried out in Rome are summarized. A method aimed at integrating survey data, historical maps, aerial photographs and archaeological and geomorphological literature produced a geomorphological map ...
D'Orefice, Maurizio +5 more
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eLife, 2021 Forager focus on wild cereal plants has been documented in the core zone of domestication in southwestern Asia, while evidence for forager use of wild grass grains remains sporadic elsewhere.
Emanuela Cristiani +11 more
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