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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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A tale of textiles: Genetic characterization of historical paper mulberry barkcloth from Oceania.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Humans introduced paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) from Taiwan into the Pacific over 5000 years ago as a fiber source to make barkcloth textiles that were, and still are, important cultural artifacts throughout the Pacific.
Bárbara Peña-Ahumada +7 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐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
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, 1990 SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:6221.66(UKIC-OP--10) / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited ...
O'Connor, S.A +1 more
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Archaeological textiles - links between past and present. NESAT XIII
, 2020 Proceedings from the international conference NESAT XIII (North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles)
Bravermanová, M.
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Current techniques of ancient textile analysis: a critical review [PDF]
, 1994 Throughout pre-history and historical times few items produced by people have been as central to daily life as textiles. Textiles have been produced in the majority of archaeological periods and in most geographic regions of the world.
Henry, Philippa Anne
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Analysis of biomolecules in cochineal dyed archaeological textiles by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Celis F +4 more
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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