Archaeology of Medieval Lebanon: an Overview
This article will present an overview of the archaeological work done on medieval Lebanon from the 19th century to the present. The period under examination is the late medieval period, from the 11th to the 14th centuries, encompassing the time when the region was under the control of various Islamic dynasties and the Crusaders.
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The NCP Excavations in Lobang Hangus, Lobang Tulang, Gan Kira and Kain Hitam
The main fieldwork of the NCP concentrated on the West Mouth, but we also carried out small-scale archaeological investigations in three other entrances of the Great Cave complex in the Bukit Bekejang massif where the Harrissons had worked: Lobang ...
Szabo, Katherine +8 more
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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This article provides an overview of the participation of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM-BAS) as a partner in both the ARIADNE and ARIADNEplus projects and the SEADDA COST Action.
Nadezhda Kecheva
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Where innovations flourish: an ethnographic and archaeological overview of hunter-gatherer learning contexts. [PDF]
Lew-Levy S +4 more
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A multi-disciplinary approach to understanding Hong Kong's past: bioanthropological, biomolecular, and zooarchaeological methods [PDF]
The past of Hong Kong has been extensively explored through close to a century’s systematic archaeological surveying, investigations, and excavations. These efforts mostly included landscape, artefactual, and rescue archaeology.
Cheung, Christina +2 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Airborne thermography and ground geophysical investigation for detecting shallow ground disturbance under vegetation [PDF]
This thesis discusses the potential of airborne thermal prospection for detecting shallow ground disturbance beneath vegetation based on images acquired by the NERC Airborne Thematic Mapper (ATM) at thermal infrared wavelengths.
McManus, Kay Barbara
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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