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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological approaches to plastics and plastic pollution: A critical overview

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Plastics
In this overview, we examine some of the ways in which archaeologists have increasingly turned their attention to the contemporary world, focusing not on ancient artefacts but on the material legacies that we ourselves are creating and what they tell us ...
Estelle Praet   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The three‐step test in international copyright—a global framework for generative AI training

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The training of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models involves the processing of large datasets, which often include copyrighted materials, thereby raising questions of copyright infringement. These questions tend to center on whether such use constitutes fair use or falls under text and data mining (TDM) exceptions.
Nicola Lucchi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Non-utilitarian context of the burnt flint artifacts from the Bronze Age settlements in the Seversky Donets River region

open access: yesTyragetia, 2017
This brief overview discusses the burnt flint found at the Bronze Age settlements located in the middle flow of the Seversky Donets River region. The objects came from the settlements’ layers associated with various archaeological cultures and periods ...
Alexandr Kolesnik
doaj  

Computer Simulation of Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts

open access: yesVirtual Archaeology Review, 2013
The main purpose of this ongoing research is to understand possible function(s) of archaeological artefacts through Reverse Engineering processes. In addition, we intend to provide new data, as well as possible explications of the archaeological record ...
Vera Moitinho de Almeida   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feltkurs som læringsform. 50 år med arkeologisk feltutdanning ved Universitetet i Oslo.

open access: yesPrimitive Tider, 2019
The archaeological field course is the forum where many archaeology students meet and take part in an archaeological excavation for the first time.
Axel Mjærum, Steinar Solheim
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeology of Medieval Lebanon: an Overview

open access: yesChronos, 2019
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.
openaire   +2 more sources

Trace Element Patterns in Juvenile Wild Chimpanzee Dentitions

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trace elements are used to infer mammalian early‐life diets, environmental toxins, dispersal patterns, stress histories, and weaning ages. Here, we employ laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to reveal elemental patterns in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.
Tanya M. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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