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VULTURES: EXEGESIS OF A SYMBOL
Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2016 Depending on the different cultures and historical periods, vultures have been considered both impure or sacred. But, since they usually do not prey upon living animals, their symbolic dimension, associated to the idea of purification, is present in many
Maura Andreoni
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Charles Cournault’s Call for a ‘Persian Museum’ at the Louvre [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological StudiesIn 1857, the French artist Charles Cournault published a plea for a French mission to Persepolis. The aimof the mission was to obtain examples of relief sculpture, like those he had seen in the British Museum, for theLouvre Museum.
Daniel Thomas Potts
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Frontiers in Environmental ArchaeologyTracing human and animal mobility behavior, land use, and exploitation strategies through strontium (Sr) isotope analysis is critical for archaeological and palaeoecological research.
Seminew Asrat +8 more
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2019 Introduction. The article discusses information sources of the 10th – 11th centuries about the oil fields in the area of the Bosporus needed to produce the secret offensive weapon of the Byzantine Empire, i.e. the famous “Greek fire”. Methods.
Valeriy E. Naumenko
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Linking Past and Present Land-Use Histories in Southern Amazonas, Peru
Remote Sensing, 2021 This paper analyzes remotely sensed data sources to evaluate land-use history within the Peruvian department of Amazonas and demonstrates the utility of comparing present and past land-use patterns using continuous datasets, as a complement to the often ...
Daniel Plekhov +7 more
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The moral economy of the Didache
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 This article applies the model of the moral economy in the ancient world, as formulated by Karl Polanyi and applied by Halvor Moxnes, to the economic relations reflected in the Didache.
Jonathan A. Draper
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Deer or Horses with Antlers? Wooden Figures Adorning Herders in the Altai
Arts, 2023 Among the burials of horse herders who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE Altai Mountains of South Siberia were some that contained small wooden figures of four-legged hoofed animals that represent horses, deer, or hybrid creatures.
Karen S. Rubinson, Katheryn M. Linduff
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Belleten, 2023 The present work deals with serpent-fighting motifs from Anatolia of the second millennium BC reconsidered in the light of recently discovered composition with a serpent-fighting scene on an Old Assyrian seal impression from ...
Vladimir Shelestin +2 more
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Arkhaia AnatolikaLocated on the west coast of Asia Minor, near the Meander River delta and in a high-seismic risk area, Miletus experienced numerous destructive earthquakes throughout its long history, representing therefore an ideal case study for the examination of ...
Giacomo CASA
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Pathogenic Neurofibromatosis type 1 gene variants in tumors of non‐NF1 patients and role of R1276
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Somatic variants of the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene occur across neoplasms without clinical manifestation of the disease NF1. We identified emerging somatic pathogenic NF1 variants and hotspots, for example, at the arginine finger 1276. Those missense variants provide fundamental information about neurofibromin's role in cancer.
Mareike Selig +7 more
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